Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-11

OF eD50rptioH, when one OF MotAihstcF .
mAgnifying glasses will be powerful
enough to make the mans cheracte.
visible? They all land IN idiocy.
have seen men at the summer va
tering places, through fashion. the nero
wreck Of what they once were Ssllow
Of cheek. Meagor of limb Hollow at
the chest Showing no animation save
In rushing across room to pick up 8
lady's fan simpering along the corri-
dors the same compliments they sim
pered 20 years ago. A New York law
yor at United States hotel. Saratoga,
within our hearing, rushed across room
to say to n sensible woman, "You are
as sweet as ponchesl" The fools OK fash
Ion are myriad. Fashion not only de-
stroye the body. bnti makes idiotio the
intellect
Yet, my friends, l have given you
onlv the milder phase OF this evil It
shuts great multitude out Of heaven
The FIRST peal Of thunder that shook ST.
nal declared. Thou shalt have no other
God before me, and You will have TO
choose between the goddess Of fashion
and the Chriatinn God. There are U great
many seats in heaven. md they are all
easy seats, but not one seat for the dew
otee OF fashion Heaven X for meek and
quiet spirits Heaven is for those who
think more of their souls than Of theiZ
bodies Heaven is for those who have
more joy IN Christian charity Than n
dry goods religion Why. If you, with
your idolatry of fashion. should some
how get into heaven, yon would be for
putting French roof on the house Of
many mansions. Giveup this .dolatry
of fashion or give ~ heaven. Whas
would you do standing beside the Count
esq Of Huntington, whose Joy it was to
tuild ohapels for the pnoY OF with tibet
Christian womb Of Boston who fed
1900 children of tho street % Faneuil
hell on New Year $ day, giving out as o
sort Of doSology at the ond Of the meet
ing pair Of shoes TO eoch one Of them,
or those Decreases OF modern society who
hive consecratod their needles to tho
Lord, and who will get eternal reward
for every stitch they take
Oh, men end women, give up the
idolatry of fashionl The 1dvalnes and
the competitions OF such life arc
stupendous Indebtedness You will al
ways find some one with brighter array
and with more pelatial residence, and
with lavender lid gloves that make o
tighter at And If you buy this thing
and wear IL 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 ace due, md When you come 10 die
you will have miserable time. I have
seen men and women oil fashion die.
and never saw one Of them die vol
The trappings off there they lay on the
tumbled pillow, and there wore Just
two things that bothered them--a vast
cd life and coming eternity l could
not pacify them, for their body, mind
and soul had been exhausted In tho wor-
chip Of fashion, and they could not ap-
preciate the gospel. When I knelt by
their bedside, they were mulnbling ont
their regrets and sayings "Oe0odf
0. Godr Their garments hu1lg up IN
the wardrobe, never again to BIZ seen By
them Without any exception 50 Ear as
my memory serves mo. they died With
out hope end went into eternity unpre-
pared.
The most CHASTITY deathbeds on earth
ere the one where man dies OF delir-
ium trenlens- and the other where
woman dies after having sacrificed al
her faculties Of body, mind aud soul in
the worship Of fashion My friends, wc
must appear in Judgment to answer foz
what we have worn OF our bodies as
we'll as for what repentances we have
exercised with our soula
On that day SEQ coming in Beau
Brummel Of the last century, without
his cloak, like which oil Engisnd got
cloak, and without his cane, like which
oil England got @ cane, without his
snuffboa, Ike which all England got
snuffbox-he, the fop Of the agcs, par
ticulur abon. evcrything but his morals,
and Aaron Burr without the letters
that down to old age he showed in pride
to prove his early wicked gallantr!e;.
aud Abselom without bis ha:E, md
Marchioness Pompadour without her
titles, and Mrs. arnold, the belle Of
Wall street, when That was the oeater
Of fashion, without her frlpperies Of
vesture.
And IN great haggardneas they shall
90 away into eternal oxpatriatton. while
among the queens OF heavenly society
will be found Vnshti. who wore the
modest veil before the pnIauial bacchana-
Inns, and Hannah. who annually made
little coat for Samuel at the temple,
and Grandmother Lois, the nnceetress
OF Timothy, who Initiated her virtue,
and Mary, who gave Jesus Christ to the
world, and mary of you. tho wives and
mothers and sisters and daughters Of the
present Christian church, WHO through
great tribulaMon, arc entering into the
kingdom Of God. Christ announced who
would make up the royal family Of
heaven when he said, "Whosoever do
eta tho will OF God, the same is my
brother. ny sigtes. my inoEhes. "
Wonderful.
In the winter Of 1893 the water run
ming down hill neAr BarnstyOro WIS.