The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-15
THE DRESS TRAGEDY
Rev, DR.. Talmage on the lr flueD ce OF The
IDOL Of Fashion.

round the world tour, has chosep Is lne
subject Of his sermon for today through
the press The Tragedy OF Dress" the
text selected beirg I Peter Ill, 3, 4,
"Whese adornirg let it not be that cut.
we.d adornlng Of plating the hair and
the wearing Of gold or OF putting On Of
apparel, but let it be the hidden man OF
The heart"
That We should all be clad is proved
by The opening of the first wardrobe IN
in paradise with its apparel OF dark
green. That we should all, as far as
cur mesns allow us. be beautifully and
gracefully appareled IS proved by the
fact that God never made q wave but he
eil6ed it with golden sunbeams, or q tree
but be gsrlanded it with blossoms, or 8
sky but he studded it with stars, or al.
lowed even the smoke Of q furnace to
ascend but be colunned and iurreted
and domed and scrolled it into outlines
Of indescribable eracefulness. When l
see the apple orchard of the spring and
the pageantry of the autunnal forests, l
come to the conclusion that if nature
ever does join the church, while she may
be a Quaker il the silence of her wor-
ship, she never will be Quaker in the
style of her dress. Why the netches OF
a fern leaf or the stauen Of water lily?
Why, when the day departs, Goes it let
the folding doors OF heaven stay open so
long, when it might 60 in so quickly?
One summer morning saw an army
of 8 million spears, each one adorned
with q diamond Of the first water-I
mean the grass with the dew on it.
When the prodigal came home, his father
not. only put a Goa. oo his back, bu.
jewelry on bis hand. Chriss~wore 9
beard. Paul, the bachelor apostle, not
afflicted with any sentimentality, ad
mired me arrangement of woman's
hair when be said in bis epistle, STA
woman have long hair, it is a glory unto
her." There will De s fashion in heaven
as on earth, but it will be different kind
of fashion. Il will decide the color Of
the dress, and the population Of that
country, by a beautiful law, will wear
white. say these things as back
ground to my sermon, to show you that
have no prim, precise, prud!sh or east
non theories on the subject of human
apparel. But the goddess of fashion
has set up her throne in this world, aod
at the sound of the timbrels we are all
expected to fall down and worship. The
Old and New Testament of her Bible are
the fashion plates. Her altars smoke
wit b the sacrifice of the bodies, minds
and souls of 10000 victims. In her
temple four people stand in the organ
lott, and from them there comes down
cold driSzle of music freezing on the ears
of her worehipers. This goddess of fash
ion has become rival of the Lord Of
heaven and earth, and it is high time
that we unlimbered our batteries against
this idelatrY. When I come to count
the victims of fashion, I find as many
masculine as feminine. Men make an
easy TRADE against woman, as though
she were the chief worshiper Al this
idolatrous shorine, and no doubt some
men in the more conspicuous part CT the
pew have already cast glances at the
more retired part Of the pew, their look
a prophecy of generous distribution.
Ny sermon shall be as appropriate for
one end Of the pew as for the other.
Men are as much the idolstors Of fash.
ion as women, but they sacrifice on
different part of the altar. With men
and vschrin9 nsrties and vine snnners
Tn the ITnited Siates the man chew mn
and smoke s100 00n 000 worth of to.
bacco every vear' That's their fashion.
Ia London not Iono 600 a man died who
had started IN lite with $50 000 hnt ne
ate il alInn in oluttonies sen6in, h,s
scents to all parts of the earth for come
rare delicscy .or the palate. sometimes
one nIate IF food coastino him s3oO or
400. He ate m his whole Sortnne and
had only one Guinea left. With that he
hauoht = woodcock had # 6-esee6 in the
verv hast stvIe ate il cave two hours
tor Sioestion tban veiked ont IN Wsot
noin1stsr br,5ge e1d tbrew h;n,self ;nto 10
the Thames and Sis5 So;na ~ on le-as
scale Whist YOU and I have often seen
done on small scsle Rnt man do not
ehstain from noillinerv anS eIshoretion
of stirt thro,oh anv sr,e-;ority os bnno;-
hty. It is only because such amend.
ages would be q blockade 20 business.
What would sashes and trains 81 Yards
long do in stock market? And yet men
are the disciples of fashion Just as much
as woms 81. Some of them wear boots
sot ightthey can hardly walk in the paths
of Righteousness. and there are men
who buy expensive suits of clothes and
never psv for them. and who 90 thouoh
the streets in GREAT stripes of Color. like
animated checterhoer6s GOV tbese
tbinos becsnse T went - show yo,, 4bot
I am impartial in INV Discourse and fhat
both sexes. in the Isnonsoe of the snrro.
gates Office. shall s7sbare and shere
alike.U AS God NAV helm me- eba,I
show Won what ore The Ses+-o1;,o, aaa
deathf1l insnencas of ;norS;nots fash;on az
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