The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-06

and women so much on their dress
they have got nothing left for the work
of God and the worlds betterment
In nv first settlement at Belleville.
n. J.. the cause of missions was being
presented one Sa bbath, and a plea for
the charity of the people was being
made, when an old Christian man in
the audience lost his balance, and
said right out in the midst of the SER
mon: 'sMr Talmage. how are we to
give literally to these grand and
glorious causes when our families
dress as they do?' / did not answer
that question It was the only time
in my life when had nothing to saw!
1nsatate fashion also belittles the
intellect Our minds are enlarged or
they dwindle just in proportion to the
Importance of the subject on which
we constantly dwell Can you imagine
anything more dwarfng to the human
intellect than the study of fashion,
/ see men on the street who. judging
from their elaboration. / think must
have taken two hours to arrange their
apparel After a few years of that
kind Of absorption. which one of Nc
Allister's magnifying glasses will be
powerful enough to make the mans
character Wis BILE? They all land n
idiocy. I have seen men at the sum-
mer watering places, through fashion.
the mere wreck of what they once
were. Sallow of cheek Meagre Of
limb Hollow at the chest. Showing
no animation save in rushing across a
room to pick up a lady's fan Shipper
ing along the corrid Ors the same com
pliments they simpered twenty years
ago. A New York lawyer at United
States hotel. Saratoga, within our
hearing. rushed across a room to say
to sensible woman, You are as
sweet as peachesl' The fools of
fashion are myriad Fashion not only
destroys the body, but it makes idiotic
the intellect
The most CHASTITY death beds on earth
are the one where a man dies of de-
lirium tremens and the other where a
woman dies after having sacrificed all
her faculties of body, mind and soul
in the worship of fash ion My friends.
we must appear in judgment to
answer for what we have worn on our
bodies as we'll as for what re pentances
we have exercised with our souls. On
that day l see coming in Beau Brum-
mel of the last century without his
cloak. like which all England got a
CLOAK. and without his cane like which
all England got a cane: without his
snuff box. like which all England got
a snuff box-he. the fop of ages. par
ticular about everything but his
morals; and Aaron Burr. without the
letters that down to old age he showed
in pride, to prove his early wicked gal
lantries; and AbsaIom without his
hair; and Warehouses PompadOur
without her titles; and Mrs. Arnold,
the belle of Wall street. when that
was the center of fashion, without her
friDDeries of vesture
And IN great haggardness they shall
go away into eternal repatriation;
while among the queens of heavenly
society will be found Nashti- who
wore the modest veil before the Pala-
tlal bacchanalians; and Hannah. who
annually made little coat for Samuel
at the TEN pie; and Grandmo ther Lois.
the ancestress of Timothy. who imitat-
ed her virtue; and Mary who gave
Jesus Christ to the world; and many
of you, the wives and mothers and
sisters and daughters Of the present
Christian church, who through great
circulation are entering into the
kingdom Of God. Christ announced
who would make up the royal family
or heaven when he said, whatsoever
doeth the viii of God, the same IS my
brother. my sister. nv mother"