The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-16

States secretary at Washington, the crash
Of whose fall shook tho continent? But
WHY should go 10 these famous default
inys 10 show wha! mon will do in order
TO keep up great homo style and eXpen :
siye wardrobe. when you and | know
scores Of mon who arc put TO their Wits
ond and are lashed f;omJ January to De-
cember in the nttcmp?
Oar politicians may theor'za until the
expiration of their terms Of Cllice as 10
the best way of improving our monetary
condition in this country. 1t will be OF
no use and things will be no better until
we learn to put on our heads and backs
and Icet aud hands no more than We can
pay for.
There arc clerks in stol es and banks
on limited salaries who, in tho vain at
tempt TO keep tho wardrobe of their lami-,
ly as showy rs other Iolkb' wardrobes,
are dying Of mrtr. and diamonds
and shawls and high hats, and
they havo nothing leiL except
what they give TO cigars and vine sup
pers, and they die bof0ro their time,
and they will expect us ministers to
preach about them as though they were
the victims OF early pietY, and after q
high class funeral, with silver handles nj
tho side Of the Collin Of extraordinary
brightness, it will be found out that Tho
undertaken is cheated out of his legili
mate eXpenscs!
DO not send to nc to preach The fun.
eral sermon OF q man who dies like that
l will blurt out The whole Truth and Tell
That he was strang]ed to death by his
wife's ribbons. Our countries arc
dressed to death. You are not sur
prised 10 find that the putting up OF ons
public building in New York cost mil.
ors of dollars moro than il ought TO
have cost when you find that the man
who gave out the contracts paid more
than SIS, 900 for hls daughters wedding
dress. Cashms res of thousand dol.
lars each are not rare on Broadway. II
is Estimated that there are 10000 wo.
men in these two cities who have ex.
pended On their personal array 81 900 q
year.
What are men to do in order to keep
up such homo w2rdrobet? Steal! That
is the only respectable thing they can
do. During the last fifteen years there
have been innumerable fine businesses
shipwrecked on the wardrobe. The
temptation comes in this way: A man
thinks more OF his family than { fl all the
world outside, and if they spend the
evening III describing to him the superi.
or wardrobe of the family across the
street, that they cannot bear the sight
Of, tho man is thrown on his gallantry
and on his pride Of family ana without
translating his feelings into plain Ian.
guage he goes into extortlon and issuing
OF ialse stock and skilltul penmanship in
writing somebody else's name at the
foot OF n promissory note, and they al
60 down together-the husband to thu
prison, the wife to the sewing machine
The children TO be taken care OF by thos,
who were called poor relations. Oh
tor some new Shakespeare to arise ant
write the tragedy Of human clothes!
| Will you forgive me if l say III terses
shape possible that some Of the me
have TO forge and TO perjure aud to swim
die TO pay for their wives dresses?
! will say it whether you forgive me {
. nor.
Again, inordinate fashion is the foe
! all Christian almsgiviHg. Men and W,
4 men put 80 much in personal displa
II that they often have nothing left for &c
I and the cause of suffering humanity.
+ Christian man cracking his Ialais Roy.
glove across the back by shutting IL
his hand to hide the cont he puts int
tho poor box. a Christian woman q
the story Of tho IottentoLs, CRYING &C
pious tears INTO $25 handkerchief an,
then giving n 2 cent piece to the col,ec
ton, thrusting il under the bills 80 peo
plo Will not know but it was $40 gold
piece. One hundred dollars for incens
to fashion; 2 cents for God, God give
us 90 cents out of every dollar. Th,
other 10 cents by command of his Bbl,
belong 10 him. Is not God liberal &C
cording to his tlthing system laid dow
III the Old Testament? Is not God lib
eral in giving us 90 cents out of n ddlla
when he takes but 10? We do not Ink,
that. We want TO have 90 cents 70,
ourselves and for God.
Now, would q great deal rather stea
10 cents fromy0u than from God. thnl
one reason why great many people dc
not get along i'll worldly accumulation
faster is because they do not observ
this divine rule. God saya, "Well,
that man is not satisfied with 90 cents O
dollar then will take tho whole dol
lar, and l will give it TO the man Or VIC
man who is honest with NO." The
greatest obstacle 10 charity IN the Chris
tan church today is the fact that mel
expend 30 much money On their table
and women 30 much on their dress, the,
have got nothing left Tor the work O
God and the worlds betterment. Ii
my first settlement at Belleville, N. j.
the cause of missions was being prese mt
ed one Sabbath, and plea for the char
lty of the people was being made, whel
an old Christihn man in the audienc,
| lost his balance and said right ought il
the midst of the sermon, "Mr. Talmag,
how are we TO give liberally to thes
grand and glorious causes when our fam
lilies dress as they dor" I did not an
swer that question. IL was tho onl,
time in my life when l had nothing Il
say.
Again, inordinate fashion is distraction
to public worship. You know very vel
there are a good many psople who com,
to church lust as they 60 30 the races Il
ma xsyJSr will Heoi hot ,