National Republican., 1888-02-20


either side and between, but the. years VIII
roll on, and great changes win be effected
and one will be missed from one end the table
and another will be missed from the other end
the table. God pity that young woman's soul
who, in that dark hour, has nothing but re-
/ 20 further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mere personal attractions.
IL would be sheer hypocrisy, because we may
not have II ourselves, to deS,pise, or affect to
lie gives II as q blessing and as means Of
usefulness. David and his army were coming
down from the mountains to destroy Nabal and
geil, the wife of Nabal, went out TO oarrest him
when, he came down from the mountains,
sworn. men, came down over the cliffs, aud
when he saw her kneeling at the foot Of the
hill he soSdGS SIsd his men, and the
beautiful woman kneoling at the foot
of the cliff had arrested all those
TmGd roSIs tS dewdIop dashed back
portraits Of Sarah and Rebecca, and Abishag,
A6salom's sister, and Jobs daughters, and
Tney wSle % by e Sf B on
apparel. let women make themselves attrac-
tive. The sloven has only one mission,
sna that su to sss Ssso for our hose MSso a9s pen 5
upon personal charms for their
happiness Beauty is such. subtle
aq aGes opon be eys
upon the flush OF the cheek. You sometimes
find II among irregular features. II is the soul
SHINING bn RSEh sE 6e S sSss es that %ho %assS ess
more personal charms They will come to
disappointment and TO great feet. There are
SO many, different different, opinions opinions about
do make such raynges. The poorest god that
tsddesi sight in oil the world is q woman VINO
has built everything on good LOOKS, when the
th0rms begin 70 vanish; Q, howthey try TO
cover the wrinkles and hide the favages OF
time. When time, with iron.shod feet, steps
oil n face, .the hoof-marGs reman, .aud you
cannot hide them. 1t is silly 10 tty to bde
them. Think the most most repulsive TOOL in all
Why, my friends, should you be ashamed to
be getting old? IT is a sign--it Is prima
well, or you would not have lived TO this time
The graidest thing, think, Is eternity. and
that is made up OF countless years. When the
Bible would set forth the attractveneSs OF
Jesus Christ, it says "His hair was white MS
snow" But when the color goes from the
check, and the luSter from the eye, and the
spring from the step and the graceiulness from
and their eternity upon good looks. But all
the passage of years cannot take ont of ones
sion so atd iai @ cnre yonr heaT, T SEdPSs Snd So
| culture your face. The brightest glory that
ever beamed from womahs face IS tne re-
hundred wounded soldiers came to Phila.
delphia one night and came uuheralded,
and they lad to extemporzc hospital
Of my Church. and Of other churches, vent TSr out
| that night 10 take care of the poor wounded
fellows. That night saw Christian woman
Sleeves Sc rolled up up ready ior hard work, her hair
disbeveled in the excitement of the hour. Her
face was plain very plain; but after the wounds
We're WASHED , nnd ne Ss new bandsSes sS were pn
boy fell off into his first pleasant slumber, she
put her hand on his brow, and he started
in m and !69Gsh Ssh an
elegance in the features of Mrs. Harris, who
came into the hospital after the "seven Days
drummer.boy and heard him soiiloQuize; "a
ball through my body, and my ,noor mother
will never again see her boy. What pity It
IS" And she leaned over him and ssi'; shall
looked up and said: Yes, I'll try TO think she's
here Pieae 10 write long letter to her and
tell her all about 1t, and send her q lock Of
ike to have you tell her how much / suffered
yes, would like you to do that, for she
would feel so for me. Hold my hand while
| die" There may have been no classic ele-
gance in her features, but all the hospitals Of
Harrison's Landing and Fortress Monroe would
have agreed that she was beautiful, and II any
rough man In all that ward bad insulted her
some wounded soldier would have leaped
from his couch on his best foot and struck him
| dead with a cfutch.
i
ness upon the batteries Of men. 1t is poor
compliment 10 your sex that SO many men
feel obliged In your presence to oiler unmean; an
elaborate conversation elsewhere, sometimes
feel called upGnGt the door OF the draw ng
room 70 drGp their common sense sense and to dole
about your dress, and about your appearance
are false; They say yp%p %,, are an
tell the truth in office, and store, aud shop.
they col sider it hor orable to lie to a woman.
The same thing that they told you 0 this side
OF the drawing room three minutes ogo they
said TO some one on he o her side of the draw.
ing loom. o, let no one lrample, on your self
resi- Get The meanest thing on which woman
can build her happiness is the batteries oI
Again; charge you not to depend for harpi
ness upon the discipleship of worldliness.
| have seen men as vain Of their old iashioneC
and their eccentric hat as your trdinless fop il
proud of his dPngl!Ig ionlertes. Fashion
sometimes makes reasonable demand OF us
and then we ought to Yield to 4, TAe .daiS!e !e'
of the field have their fashion of colo
and l,af, the honeySuckles have their fash
ion OF ear.dIop and the sn0wiakcs flung gu
of the winter heavens have their fashion o
ea Quisltencss. Alter the summer shower thu
sRyweus the earth with ring OF rainbow. AnC
do not think we have tight 10 despise tht
eltgancies and fashions Of this world, espec
ally If they make reasonable demands upon
us; but the discipleship and worship of fashioI
is death to the body, and death TO the soul
|
the fashion plates OF the seventeenth ant
eighteenth centuries, and you will find tha
the world Is not SO extrayessa md ssitt
nary now ss it was then. and all tho marvel
never equal that done by the grandmother
Go still farther back, to the Bible times, apt
you find that IN those times fashion welded ,
more terrible scepter. You have only TO turf
to the third chapter OF Isaiah. portion of tn,
Scriptures from which once preached yol
sermon, to read, because the ,daugh
I n nrn hanulty mr. WALL will
stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walk
Ing, and mincing as they so, aud making {
tinSling with their feet, In that day the Lore
ornaments about their feet al d their caul
ard. their round, tires like the moon, thu
chains, and the bracelets, and the muilers
the bonnets, and The head bands, ana tho
tablets, and the earrings, the rings, and thl
, nose Jewels, the changeaGle suits OF apparel
and The mantles; and the wimples, and TIN
linen, and the hoods, and the, yel'." Only
think OF q woman having all tina! on! an
glad that the world is getting better and tina
Iuinously in other days has for little time
for a. little, degree, at any rate, relaxed It
energies. Al the splendors and the extraya
lung over your shoulder cannot wrap peac
around your heart for single moment. Th
gayest wardrobe Will utter, no voice of con
|, | That woman is grandly dressed, and onl,
she, who is wrapped IN the robe O
a s0yiour's righteousness. The home may bt
very humble, the hat may he very plein, III
lrock may be very coarse, but Inc halo 0
heaven settles in the room when she wears II
and the faintest touch oi the resurrection ange
viii change that garment into raiment Cx
| cccding white, so as no fuller on earth cOulC
| Mhlten II. ! come TO YOU, young women, to
day to say that this world cannot make YOU
happy. / know II is a bright world, Will
glorious sunshine, aud golden rivers, Gud fire
. WORKED sunset, and bird orchestra, and tn
darkest cave has lis crystals, and the wTathies
wave its foam wreath, and the coolest midnlgh
, its flaming aurora but God will nut out III
these lights with the blast of His own nostrils
ard the glories OF this world vii. perish II
the final ConilasTatnn. You will never b