The Progress., 1894-08-11

they have got nothing left for the work
Of God and the worlds betternent
In my first settlement at Belleville.
\, J.. the cause of missions was being
presented one Sabbath. and L plea FOR
tho charity OF the people was being
made, when an old Chris;;an man in
tho audience lost hia balance, and
said High, oas in the midst OF the SER
mon: Mr. Talinayo. how ara we to
give literally to these grand and
glorious cevsca Wen Our families
ttrc.s as they do'' [ did no5 answer
shat question. Il vas the on : tlmo
in my life when l hal nothing to say.
Insatiate fashion also hclittIes the
intallcct Our minds are enlarged or
they dwindle just in proportion to the
Importance of the subject on which
we constantly dwell Cany imagine
anything more dwarfing to the human
intellect than the study Of fashion?
see men on the street who, judging
from their elaboration, | think must
have taken two hours to arrange then
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. 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
room to pick up a 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 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 repentances
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 a
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 hif
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 Warehouses Pompadoul
without her titles; and Mrs Arnold
the belle of Wall street, when thai
was the center of fashion, without he1
fripperiea of vesture.
And IN great haggardness they shall
90 away into eternal repatriation
while among the queens of heavenly
society will be found Vashti wht
wore the modest veil before the pala
tial bacchanaliaus; and Hannah, wh'
annually made little coat for samue
at the temple; and Grandmother Lois
the ancestress of Timothy. who initial
ed her virtue; and Mary, who CAV
Jesus Christ to the world; and man.
of you, the wives and mothers ant
sisters and daughters OF the presen
Christian church, who through grea
tribulation are entering into tn
, kingdom of God. Christ announced
who would make up the royal family
of heaven when he said ''Whosoeve
-, doeth the will of God, the same is m.
brother, my sister. my mother"