Connecticut western news., 1894-08-09

of fashion or give mp heaven. WhS:: would you do standing beside the Count ess of Huntington, whose joy it was to build chapels for the poor, or with that Christian woman of Boston who fed 1,500 children of the street at Faneuil hall on New Years day, giving out as sort of doxology at the end of the meet ing pair of shoes to each one,of them. or those Dorcases of modern society who have oonseerated their needles to the Lord, and who will get eternal reward for every stitch they take,
 Oh, men and women, give up the idolatry of fashion! The rivalries and the competitions of such life are a stupendous wretchedness. You will al- ways find some one with brighter array and with more palatial residence, and with lavender kid gloves that make tighter fit. And if you buy this thing and wear it you will wish you had bought something else and worn it. And the frets of such life will bring the crows feet to your temples before they are due, and when you come to die you will have a miserable time. 1 have seen, men and women of fashion die, and I never saw one of them die we'll. The trappings off, there they lay on the tumbled pillow, and there were just two things that bothered them-a vast ed life and coming eternity. 1 could not pacify them, for their body, mind and soul had been exhausted in the wor- ship of fashion, and they could not ap- preciate the gospel. When I knelt by their bedside, they were mumbling out their regrets and saying: 70 God! O Godp Their garments hung up in the wardrobe never again to be seen by them. Without any exception, so far as my memory serves me, they died with out hope and went into eternity unpre- pared.
 The most ghastly deathbeds on earth are the one where a man dies of delir ium tremens and the other where a woman dies after having sacrificed all her faculties of body, mind and soul in the worship of fashion. My friends, we must appear in judgment to answer for whatrwe have worn on our bodies as well as for what repentances we have I exercised with our souls. On that day see coming in Beau Brummel 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 | snuffbox, like which all England got snuffbox-he, the flop of the 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 gallantries, and Absalom without his hair, and Marchioness Pompadour without her titles, and Mrs. Arnold, the belle of | Wall street, when that was the center of fashion, without her fripperies of | yesture
 And in great haggardness they shall | go away into eternal repatriation, while
 among the queens of heavenly society will be found Vashti, who wore the
 modest veil before the palatial bacchana-
 lians, and Hannah, who annually made little coat for Samuel at the temple, and Grandmother Lois, the ancestress of Timothy, who initiated 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 tribulation, are entering into the kingdom of God. Christ announced who would make up the royal family of heaven when he said, '.Whosoever do- eth the will of God, the same is my l brother, my sister, my mother.