Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-06

for those who think more OF their sous
than of their bodies. Heaven Is ior
those who have more joy In, Christian
charity than in
DRY GOODS RELIGION.
Why, II you with your ldoiaHy VI
fashion should somehow get into heaven
you would be for putting French ROOF
on the "house of many mansions.
Give up this idolatry of fashion, or give
I'D heaven. What would you DO STAND
ing beside the Countess OF Huntington,
whose joy 1t was to build chapels for
the poor, or with that Christian woman
OF Boston, who fed fifteen hundred cnh-
dreu of the street at Faneuil hall on
New Years day, giving out as a sort OF
doxology at the end Of the meeting
pair OF shoes TO each one
of them; or sthose Decreases OF
modern society who have conse'
Grated their needles to the Lora'
aud who will get eternal reward lot
every stitch they take. On! men anu
women, give up the idolatry OF fashion:
The rivalries and the competition OF
such life are stupendous wfetcheu-
ness. You will always find some one
with brighter array and with more pal
atial residence, aud with lavender kid
gloves that make tighter ut. And II
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 tenn
ple before they are due, and when you
come TO die you will have a miserable
time. have seen men and women OF
fashion die, ard never saw one OF them
die well. The trappings of, there they
Law on the tumbled pillow, and there
were Just two things that bothered
them-a wasted life and coming eter-
nifty. | could not pacify them, for their
body. mind ana soul had been exhaust
ed in the worship of fashion, and they
could not appreciate the gospel. When
I krelt by their bedside they were mum
bling out their regrets and saying, ION,
Cod On, Godw Their garments hung
M in the wardrobe, never again to De
seen by them. Without any exception,
so far as my memory serves me, they
died without hope, and went into eter-
nifty unprepared.
The most CHASTITY death-beds on earth
are, the one where man dies OF delir-
ium tremeus, and the other where a
woman dies after having
SACRIFICED ALL HER FACULTIES
body, mind and soul in the worship OF
fashion. My friends, we must appear 10
Judgment TO answer for what we have
worn on our bodies as well as for what
repentance we have exercised with our
~ | nnnlipU In
Beau Brummel Of the last century,
without his cloak. like which all Eng-
land got a cloak; aud without his cane,
like which all Eng aud got cane; with
out his snuffbox, ike which all England
got a snuffbOx-he, the fOp OF the ages,
particular about everything out bis
morals; and Aaron Burr, without the
letters that down 10 Old age he showed
In pride, TO prove his early wicked gall
lautrieS: and AbSalOm without his hair;
and MarchioneSs Pompadour without
her titles: and Mrs. Arnold, the belle OF
Wall stree, when that was the centre
of fashion, without her fripperies OF
veSture. I
And in great baggardnesS thew shall
90 away into eternal expatrlauon; whlie
among the queens of heavenly society
will DO found VaShti, who wore the mod
est veil before the palatial 6acchanai-
ians; and Hannah. who annually made
a little coat for Samuel at the temple;
and Grandmother Lois, the aGc astresS
OF Timothy. who initiated her virtue;
aud Mary, who gave Jesus CurIst to the
world; aud many of you, the wives and
mothers and sisters aud daughters OF
the present Christian church, who
through great tribulation are entering
Into the Kingdom OF God. Christ an
nounced who would make up the royal
family of heaven when he said, "Who-
soever doeth the will OF God, the same
is my brother, my sister, my mother"