The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-15

between the goddess of fashion and the
Christian God. There are great many
seats in heaven, and they are all eae!
seats, but not one seat for the devotee
of fashion. Heaven is for meek and
quiet spirits. Heaven is for those who
think more of their souls than OF their
bodies, Heaven is Tor those who have
more Joy IN Christian charity than in dry
goods religion. Why, if you with your
idolat:y Of fashion should somehow get
into leaven, you would be for putting a
French roof on the "house OF many
manslops." Give up this idolatry Il
fashion or givs up heaven.
What Tculd you DO standing beside
the Countess of Huntingdon, whose JOY
it was to build chapels Tor the poor, or
with that Christian woman OF Boston
who fed 1900 children of tie street at
Far Gull bail on New Years day, giving
out as a scr. of Goxology at the end OF
the meeting pair of shoes to each one
of them, or those Dorcsses Of modern
! society who have consecrated their need
les to the Lord, and who will get eternal
reward for every stitch they take. o.,
meu and women. give up the idolatrY
Of fashion. The rlvalries and the com.
petitions of such life are stupendous
wretchedness. You will always hod
some one with brighter array, and with
more palatial residence, and with laven-
der kid gloves that make tighter Gt.
And il you buy this thing and wear it
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 are due, and when
you come to Gle you will have miser.
able time. 1 have seen men and wo-
men OF fashion die, and l never saw one
cf them die well. The trappings Of,
there they lay on the tulnbled pillow,
and there were just two things that
bothered them-a wasted life and com.
ing eternity. I could not pacify them,
for their body, mind and sou! had been
exhausted in the worship Of fashivn, and
they could rot appreciate the gospel.
When l knelt by their bedside, they
were mumblipg out their regrets and
saving: 80 Goo! o GoG!'' Their gar
ments hung up II the wardrobe never
again to be seen by them. Without
any exception, so far as my memory
serves me, they died without hope and
went into eternity unprepared.
The most CHASTITY deathbeads on earth
are The one where man dies of deiirium
tremens, and the other where q woman
dies after having sacrificed all her tacul-
ties cf body, mind and soul IN the wor-
ship Of fashion. My friends, we must
appear II judgment to answer for what
we haze worn on our bodies as well as
for what repentances we have exercised
with our souls. Ou that day l see com
ing in Beau Brummel Of the last cen.
tury, without his cloak, like which all
England got cloak, and without bis
cane, like which all England got a cane;
without his snuff.box, like which all
England got a snuf.box. He, the fop
of the ages, particular about everything
but bis morals, and Aaron Burr, with
out the letters that down to old age he
showed in pride to prove his early wicked
gallantries, and Absolom without bis
hair, aud Marchioness Pompadour with.
out 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 hagQardness they shall
90 away into eternal expatriation, while
among the queens Of heavenly society
will be found Vashti, who wore the
modest veil before the palatlal l'accha.
nalians, and Hannah, who annually
made a little coat for Samuel at the tenn
pie, and Grandmother Lois, the ances'
tress of Timothy, who initiated ter vlr.
ture, add Mary who gave Jesus Christ 10
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 an.
nounced who would make up the rofa;
family Of heaven when he said, "Who-
soever doeth the will of God the same is
my brother, my sister, my mother"