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

tapce OF the subject on which we con-
stantly dwell. Can YOU imagine any
thing moro dwarllng to the human intol
lect than the study Of fashion? see
men on the street, who, Judging from
their elaboration. L think must have
taken two houts 20 arrange thor apparel
After II few years Of that KIDD Of absOrp.
tion, which one of McAllister's magnify
Ing glasses will be powerful enough 10
make the mans character visible. rhey
all land III ldiocy. have seen men ut
the summer watering plcces through
fashion The mere wreck Of what they
once were. Sallow of cheek. Meager
of limb. Hollow at tho cheat. Showing
no animation save in rushing scross q
room TO pick up lady's fan. Simper-
ing along the corridors, the srme COM
pliments they simpered 20 years ago. A
Now York lawyer at United States
hOte! Saratoga, within our hearing
rushed across room TO say 10 q sensi-
BILE woman, You arc as sweet rs
peachet:" The fools Of fashion are
myriad Fashion not only DESTROYS the
body, but it makes idiotc tho intellect.
Yet my friends. have given you only
the milder phase of this evil. 1t shuts
a great multitude ont of heaven. The
Grst peal Of thunder that shCok Sinai de-
clared. "Thou shnlt have no other God
before NO." and you will have TO choose
between the goddeHs Of fashion and the
Christian God. There arc great many
seats in heaven, and they are all easy
seats, but not one seat for the devotee
OF fashion. Heaven is for meek and
quiet spirits. Heaven 10 for those who
think more of their souls than Of their
bodies, Heaven is for those who hnve
more joy in Christian charity than in dry
goods religion. Why, if you with your
idolatry Of fashion should somehow get
into heaven, you would bc for putting q
French root On the "house of many
mansions" Give up this idolatry IF
fashion or give up heaven.
What would you do standing beside
the Countess of Huntingdon, whose Joy
it was to build chapels for the poor, or
with that Christian woman of Boston
who fed $500 children of the street at
Fancuil hall on New Years day, giving
out as q sort of doxology at the end OF
tho meeting pair Of shoes TO each one
OF them, or those Decreases Of modern
society who have consecrated their need.
les to the Lord, and who will get eternal
reward for every stitch they take. On,
meu and women, give up the idolatry
OF fashion. The rlvalries and the com.
petitions Of such life are stupeudous
Wretchedness. You will always 6nd
some one with brighter array, and with
more palatial residence, and with laven-
der kid gloves that make tighter fit.
Aud if you buy this thing and wear it
you will wish you had bought something
| else and worn il. And the frets Of such
q life will bring the crows feet to your
temples before they are due, and when
you come TO die you will have miser.
able time. l have seen men and Wo
nen OF fashion die, and never saw ops
CT them die we'll. The trappings off
there they lay on the tulnbled pillow
and there were just two things tha
bothered them-a wasted life and n com
ing eternity. could not pacify them
Tor their body, mind and soul had bee,
exhausted in the worship OF fashi.n, ant
they could not appreciate the gospel
When l knelt by their bedside, tho
were mumbling out their regrets an
saying: 80 Godl O Cool" Their gal
! ments hung up IN the wardrobe neve
again to be seen by them. Withou
any exception, so lar rs my memor,
serves mo, they died without hope ant
went into eternity unprepAred.
The most ghastly deathbeads on eartl
are the one where man dies Of deiiriun
tremens, and the other where a woman
dies after having sacrificed all her tacul-
Ties CT body, mind and soul IN the wor
ship OF fashion. My friends, we mus!
appear IN Judgment 10 answer for what
we haze worn on our bodies rs well ne
Tor what repentanCes we have exercised
with our souls. On that day L see com
ing in Beau Brummel of the last cen.
turY, without his cloak, like which al
England got cloak, and without his
cane, like which all England got cane
without his snuil-boX, like which ali
England got q snull-box. lie, the for
OF the ages, particular about everything
but Ills morals. and Aaron Burr, with.
out The letters that down TO old ago he
showed in pride TO prove his early wicked
gallantries, and Absolom without his
hair, and Marchioness Pompadour with,
out her titles, and Mrs. Arnold, the
Delle OF Wall street when that was the
center OF tashi on, without her frirperies
of vesture.
Ano III great haggardneas they shall
90 away into eternal expatrintion, while
among The queens of heavenly society
Will be found Vashti, who wore the
modest veil before the palatlal haccha
nallans, and Hannah, who annually
made little coat for Samusl at the tenn
pls, and Grandmother Lois, the ances
tress OF Timothy, who initiated her yir
ture, add Mary who gave Jesus Christ tc
the world, and many of you, the wives
and mothers and sisters and daughters
OF the present Christian church, who
through great tribulation, arc entering
into the kingdom Of God. Christ an
nounccd who would mako up the roya
family of heaven when ho said, "Who
soevor docth the will of God the Same i,
my brother, my sister, my mother"