News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-08

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bright and beautiful memories Of filial kind
ness performed ere the dying hand dropped
on you a benediction. and YOU closed tn
lids over the weary eyes Of the worn Oh
pilgrim. Better that, in the hour of You
birth, you had been struck with orphanag..
and that you had been handed over int
the cold arms of the world, rather thar
that you should have been brought up un
der a fathers care and mothers tenderness
at last to scof at their example and deridC
their influence; and the day when yoU
followed them in long procession TO the
tomb, to find that you are followed by a still
larger procession OF uniilial deeds done and
wrong words uttered. The one procession
will leave its burden in the tomb and dis
band; but that longer procession OF CHASTITY
memories will forever march and forever
| wall Oh, it is a good time for young wo-
man when she is in her fathers house. How
| careful they are of her welfare! How watch
full those parents of all her interestsl Seated
Mt the morning repast, father at one end the
| able, children on either side and between;
)ut the years will roll on, and great changes
will be effected, and one will be missed from
one end the table, and another will be missed
from the other end the table Sod pity that
young woman's soul who, in that dark hour,
has nothing but regretrul recollections.
go further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mere personal attrac-
tons. 1t would be sheer hypocrisy, because
we may not have it ourselves, TO despise, or
affect to despise, beauty in others. When
| God gives it he gives it as a blessing and as
a means of usefulness. David and his army
were coming down from the mountains to
destroy Nabal and his focks and vineyards
The beautiful Abigail, the wife of Nabal
went out to arrest him when he came down
| from the mountains, and she succeeded.
| Coming to the foot of the hill, she kne,t
David, with his army of sworn men, came
down over the cliffs, and when he saw ner
kneliing at the foot of the hill he cried "Haltln
| to his and tlTa aghpnd T.. Half
| malt! That one beautiful woman lneeling
at the foot OF the cliff had arrested all
those armed troops. A dewdrop dashed
back Niagara. The Bible sets before us the
portraits of Sarah and Rebecca, and Abishag
| AbSalom's sister, and Jobs daughters and
says: "They were fair to look upon" By
| out door exercise, and by skilful arrange
| ment of apparel, let women make themselves
attactlve The sloven has only one mission,
| and that to excite our loathing and DISGUST
| But alas! for those who depend upon personal
| charms for tIeir happiness. Beauty is such
| a subtle thing, it does not seem to depend
| upon facial proportions, or upon the sparkle
| of the eye, or upon the flush of the cheek
| You sometimes find it among irregular feat
ures. 1t is the soul shining through the face
| that makes one beautiful. But alasl for
| those who dependupOn mere peTs )nal charms.
| They will come to disappointment an to a
| great fret. There are SO many different
| opinions about what are personal charms;
| and then sickness, and trouble and age do
| make such ravageS The poorest god that q
woman ever worships is her own face. The
saddest sight in all the world is woman who
| has built everything on good looks when the
| charms begin to vanish Oh how thew try
| to cover the wrinkles and hide the ravages
OF time! When time, with iron shod feet
steps on face, the hoof marks remain, and
you cannot hide them. 1t is silly to try to
hide them. think the most repulsive fool
in all the world is an Old fool
Why, my friends, sh ould you be ashamed
to be getting oldI 1t is sign--it is prima
tacie evidence that you have behaved toler-
ably vel or you would not have lived to this
time. The grandeSt thing, think, is eternity,
and that is made up Of countless years.
When the Bible would set forth the attrac-
tiveneSs of Jesus Christ it says: His hair
was white as snow" But when the color goes
from the cheek, and the luster from the eye,
and tine spring from the step, and the grace
fulnesS from the gait, alas for those who
have built their time and their eternity upon
good looks. But all the passage of years can
not take out of ones face benignity and kind
ness, and compassion, and faith. Culture
your heart and you culture your face. The
brightest glory that ever beamed from a
woman's face is the religion of Jesus Christ
In the last war POO wounded soldiers came to
Philadelphia one night, and came unheralded,
and they had to extemporize a hospital for
them, and the Christian women of my church,
and of other churches, went out that night to
take care of the poor wounded fellows. That
nl8nJ L SlW u NHIIbbldn woman 20 through
the wards of the hospital, her sleeves rolled
up, ready for hard work, her hair di-
sheveled in the excitement of the hour.
Her face was plain, very plain; but
after the wounds We're washed and the
new bandages were put round the splintered
limbs and the exhausted boy fell Off into his
first pleasant sleep, she put her hand ON his
brow and he started in his dream, and said:
"Oh, l thought an angel touched mer' There
may have been no classic elegance in the
features of Mrs. Harris, VINO came into the
hospital after the Seven Days awful fight
as she sat down by q wounded drummer bow
and heard him soiiio 1uize: :. < bah thra,1A
my body alsd my poor mosner win ~~-
ss' q ie5fied over i,ini tiiia sad. tsl,ls;s ~
your mother and comfort you" And-=he-
looked up and said: ives III try 10 think
she's here. Please to write long letter to
ner and tell her all about it, and send her
lCc'I of my hair and comfort her. But ]
would like to have you tell her how much
sufTered-yes, l would like you to do that,
for she would feel 50 for me- Hold my hnud
whi die" There may have been nc classic
elegance in her features, but all the hospitals
of HarrisOn's Landing and Fortress Monroe
would have agreed that she was beautiful:
and if any rough man in all that ward had
insu!te1 her, some wounded solder would
have eaped from his couch on his best foot,
and struck him dead with a crutch.
Again, l advise you not TO depend for hap
pnesS upon the batteries of men. 1t is
poor compliment to your sex that so many
men feel obliged in your presence to offer I'M
meaning compliments Men capable or ele.
CANT and elaborate conversation elsewhere
sometimes feel called upon at the door Of the
drawing room to drop their common sense
and t. dole out si,kening batteries. They
say things about your dress and about your
appearance, that you know and they know,
are false They say you are an angel.
on know You are not. Determined to tell
the truth in Office and store and shop they
consider it honorable to lie to a wouan The
same thing that they told you on this side OF
the drawing room three minutes ago they
sail to some one on the other side of the draw
ing room Oh, let no one tfample on your
self respect. The meaneSt thing on which
woman can build her happiness is the hatter-
es OF men.
Again. l charge you not to depend for hap
oiness upon the discipleship of worldlinass. |
nave seen men as vain of their old fashioned
md their eccentric hat as yoI brainless fop
S proud of his dangling fooleries Fashion
makes a reasonable demand Of us.
md then we ought to yield to it. The daisies
If the field have their fashion Of color and
eaf; the honevsuckles have their fashion Of
,ar drop, and tina snOwflakes flung out of the
winter heavens have their fashion OF eXquiS-
teness. After the summer shower the sky
SedS the earth with ring of rainbow, and
10 not think we have a right TO deSps' the
,egdncies and fashions of the world, eSpe-
,ialiy if they make reasonable demands upon
IS; hut the discipleshipand worship OF fash
on is death t. the body aud death to tue
oul | am glad the world is improving.
4Ook at the fashion plates of the Seventeenth
nd Eighteenth centuries, and yOu will ind
hat the world is not 50 extlavaganu and eN'
now as it was then and all the
marvellous things that the granddaughter
giIl do will never equal that done by tho
Go still farther back, 10 the
'ib'e times, AMI you find that in those
ines fashion welded n more terrible
,epter. You have only to turn to tie tn rd
hapter of Isaiah, portion of the SCR ptures
'om which | once preached to you sermon,
read: "Becauss the daughters of Zion are
aughty, and walk with stretched forth necks
nd wanton eyes walking and mincing as
ley go, and making tinkIing with their
et: In that day the Lord VIII take away
lie bravery of their tinkling ornaments about
leir feet, and their cauls, and their round
res Ike the moon, the chains and the brace
It's, aud the muiiiers, the bonnets. and the
cad bands and the tablets, and the ear
ngs, the rings, and the nose jewels, the
laugeable suits of apparel, and the mautles
nd the wimples, and the crisping pins, the
lasses, and the fine linen, AMI the hoods, and
le wells" Only think of woman having
l that on! | am glad that the world is
citing better, and that fashion, which has
)minated in the world so ruinously in other
lys, has for little time, for little degree
any rate, relaxed its energies. All the
lendOrS and the extravaganza of this world
yed into your robe and flung over your
ouder cannot wrap peace around your
art for single moment The gayest ward
he will utter no voice of coincidence in
e dav of trouble and darkness That
oman is grandly dressed, and only she,
ho is wrapped in the robe of a
lviour's righteousness. The home may