The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06

ligion. Why, If you, with your idola-
try Of fashion, should somehow get
into heaven, you would be for put
ting a French roof on the house Of
many mansions Give up this idolatry
of fashion. or give uD heaven. What
would you do standing beside the
Countess Of Huntington. whose JOY it was
70 build chapels for the poor, or with that
Christian woman Of Boston, who fed fif-
teen hundred children of the street at
Faneuil hall on New Years day. giving
out as a sort Of dOXology at the end Of the
meeting a pair Of shoes to each one of
them; or those Decreases Of modern society
who have cOnsecrated their needles to the
Lord, and who will get eternal reward
for every stitch they take. Oh men and
women. give up the idOlatry of fashion.
The Tlvalrles and the competitions of
such lie are a stupendOus wretched-
ness. You will always find some one with
brighter array and with more palatial
residence, and with lavender kid gloves
that make tighter fit. And if you buy
this thing and wear it you will wish you
had bought something else and worn it,
And the frets of such a life will bring the
crows feet TO your temples before they
are due, and when YOU come TO die you
Will have miserable time. l have
seen men and women of fashion die, and |
never saw one Of them die we'll. The
trappings on, there they lay on the tum-
bled pillow, and there were lust two
things that bothered them-a wasted life
and coming eternity. I could not pacify
them, for their body, mind and soul had
been exhausted in the worship of fashion,
and they could not appreciate the gospel
When l knelt by their bedside they were
mumbling out their regrets and saying,
"Oh, Cod Oh God :" Their garments
hung up in the wardrobe, never again TO
be seen by them. Without any excep-
ton, so far as my memory serves me, they
died without hope, and went into eternity
unprepared.
The most CHASTITY death beds on earth
are, the one where man dies of delirium
tremeus, and the other where a woman
dies after having sacrificed all her facul-
ties 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 well as for what
repentances we have exercised with our
souls. On that day see coming in Beau
Brummel of the last century, without his
cloak, like which all England got cloak;
and without his cane, like which all Eng
land got cane; without his snuff-box,
like which all England got a snuff box
he, the fop of the ages, particular 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 gallantries; and Absalom
without his hair; and Marchioness Pom
padour without her titles, and Mrs. Ar
mold, 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 expatriation while
among the queens of heavenly society
will be found Vashti, who wore the
modest veil before the palaJial bacchanal-
ians; and Hannah, who annually made a
little coat for Samuel at the temple, and
Grandmother Lois, the ancestress of
Timothy, who initiated 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 doeth the will
of God, the same is my brother, my sis
ter, my mother"