Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-22
Rise. nv soul, and stretch thy wing.
Thy better portion trace.
Rise from transirOry things
TO~hri heaven tnJ native pisa.

Rise, nv soul, and stretch thy wing.
Thy better portion trace.
Rise from trans;rory things
To-sri heaven. tiny native place.
adopt the RplseoplIien prayer and say,
"Good Lord. deliver rs ~
Insatiate fashion also balittles the in.e,-
lect. Our minds are enlarged or they dwin-
die just in proportion to the importance OF
the subject on which We constantly dwell.
Can you imagine anything more dwarfns to
the human intellect than the study of FASH
tone 1 see men on the street who, Judging
from their elaboration, must have taken two
hours to arrange their apparel. After few
years OF that kind OF absorption, which on >
powerful enough 10 make the mans caaras-
ter visible? They all land in iiiocv.
have ssen men at the summer watering
places. through fashion, the mere wreck OF
what they once were. SalloT OF chez :.
lIeagre OF limb. Hollow at the chest. Sho :
ing no animation save in rushing across l
room to pick up lady's fan. Simper.u !,
along the corridors the sane compliments
they simpsred twenty years ago A New
York lawyer at Unit.i States Hotel. S.r.G-
toSa, within our hearing. rushel across $
room to say to a sensible woman, "You n
rs sweet a. peaches"' y The fools o. fsshiol
are myriad. Fashion not Only DESTROYS the
DO ", but it makes idioiic the intellect.
Yet. my friends. l have given YOU only the
mi!der phase of this evil. II shuts great
multitude out OF heaven. The frst paah OF
thunder that shook Sinai declared. "rsou
shalt have no other God before Me-" and
YOU will haye to choose bet tween the 20 ldess
of fashion and the Christian Col. There
are a .,reat many sen's in heaven, and they
are all easy seats, but not one seat for the
devotee OF fashion. Heaven ia for meek and
quiet spirits. Heaven is for those who think
more of their souls than OF thor DO Lies.
Heaven is for those who have more joy in
ris oh rit ha in dry nltS rali
Why, if you. with your idolatry OF fashion,
should somehow get into heaven, you would
be for putting n French roof on the "house
OF many mansions" Give up this idolatry
of fashion or give up heaven. What would
YOU do standing beside tie Countess Of
Huntington. whose joy it WAS to build
chapels for the poor. or with that Christian
woman OF Boston who fe 1900 children Of
the street at Faneail Hall on New Years
day. giving out as sort OF doIoloSy at the
end of the meeting pair OF shoes to each
one OF them, or those Decreases of mo lern
society who nave consecrnted their needles
TO the Lord, and who will get eternal rewar!
for every stitch they take?
On, men and women. give up the idOlatry
OF fashion! The rivalrics ana the competi
tons OF such q life are n stupendouS wretch
edness. You will always find some one With
brighter array and with more palatiai resi-
denee. and with lavender Kid gloves that
make q tighter NJ. And If YOU buy this thing
and wear it you will wish you had bought
something else and wD IT. And the frets
OF surh life will bring the crows feet to
your temples before they are due and when
you come to die you will have a miserable
time. I have ssen men and women OF fash
ion die. and I never saw ono OF them die
well. The trappings OF, there they lay on
the tumbled pillow, and there were Just two
things that bothered them-a waste life and
a coming eternity. l could not pacify them,
for their body. mind and soul had been e1.
hausted in the worship OF fashion. and they
could not appreciate the gospel. When
knet by their bedside. they were munhiinS
out their regrets AMI saying 30 Got' .
Godr Their garments hung up in the
wardrobe, never again TO be seen by them.
Without any exception, so far as my MEM
ory serves me, they diel without hope and
went into eternity unprepared.
The most ghastly deathbeds on earth are
the one where man dies of delirium tremen5
ing sacrificed all hsr faculties OF body, mind
and soul in the worship OF fashion. Ny
friends, we must appear in judgment to an
swer for what we have worn on our bodies az
well as for what repentences We have exer-
cised with our souls.
On that day see coming in Beau Brum-
mel of the last century, without his cloak,
like which all England got Il cloak. and WITH
out his cane. like which all England got
cane. without his snufOox. like which all
England got q snufbox-nr, the fop OF the
ages, particular about everything but MS
morals. ani Aaron Burr without the lett hrs
that down to old age ne showed in pri ie 20
prove his early wicked Sallan,res, an Ao-
salon without his hair, AMI Marchiones5
Pompadour W thout her titles. AMI Mrs.
Arnold, the belle of Wall street. when that
was the center of fashion, without her Trip
peries OF vesture.
And in great haSSar!ness they shall go
away into eternal expatriation, while among
the queens OF heavenly society Will be found
Vasnti, who wore the modest veil before the
palatial pacchanalians, AMI Handah, who
annually made little coat for Samuel at the
temple, and Grandmother Lois, the anceS-
tress 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
arc entering into the kingdom OF
God. Christ announced who would make
up the royal family OF heaven when He said,
s.Whosoever doeth the will OF God, the same
Is My brother, Ny sister. Nv mother"