Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09

and women so much on their dress,
they have got nothing left for the work
of God and the worlds betterment
In my first settlement at Belleville,
n. j., the cause of missions was being
presented one Sabbath, and plea for
the charity of the people was being
made. when an old Christian man in
the audience lost his balance, and
said right out in the midst of the SER
mon: MIR Talmage, how are we to
give literally to these grand and
glorious causes when our families
dress as they do?" / did not answer
that question 1t was the only time
in my life when had nothing to say!
Insatiate fashion also belittles the
intellect Our minds are enlarged or
they dwindle just in proportion to the
Importance of the subject on which
we constantly dwell Can you imagine
anything more dwarfing to the human
intellect than the study of fashion?
i see men on the street who, judging
from their elaboration, / think must
have taken two hours to arrange their
apparel After few years of that
kind of absorption, which one of Nc
Allister's magnifying glasses will be
powerful enough to make the mans
character visible? They all land in
idiocy. 1 have seen men at the sum-
mer watering places, through fashion,
the mere wreck of what they once
were. Sallow of cheek. Meagre of
limb. Hollow at the chest. Showing
no animation save in rushing across a
room to pick up lady's fan. Shipper
ing along the corridors. the same COM
pliments they simpered twenty years
ago. A New York lawyer at United
States hotel, Saratoga, within our
hearing, rushed across a room to say
to sensible woman, you are as
sweet as peaches." The fools of
fashion are myriad. Fashion not only
destroys the body, but it makes idiotic
the intellect
The most CHASTITY death beds on earth
are the one where man dies of de-
lirium 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 what we have worn on our
bodies as we'll as for what re pentances
we have exercised with our souls. On
that day see coming in Beau Brum-
mel of the last century without his
cloak, like which all England got
cloak, and without his cane like which
all England got cane: without his
snuff box like which all England got
snuff box-he, the fop of 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 gal
lantries; 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 vesture.
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 pala-
tial bacchanalians; and Hannah. who
annually made little coat for Samuel
at the temple: and Grandmoth Lois,
the ancestress of Timothy, who imitat-
ed 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
oeth the will of God, the same is my
brother, my sister, my mother"