The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-11
TRAGEDY OF DRESS.
Talmage Discourses on the Vic
Tins of Fashion.
Baieful Influences of Inordinatc Love OF
Dress-Incentivc to Fraud, Distract
ton of Public Worship and
the Souls Destruction.

Rev. II. Dewitt Talmagc, who is still
around the world, gave out
as his latest sermon through the press
discourse on THE Tragedy of Dress"
the text selected being |. Peter, iii, "a:
Whose adjoining let it not he that ont
ward adjoining of plating his hair, and
of wearing of gold, or of putting on of
apparel; but let it be the hidden man
of the heart" Following is the SER
mon:
That we should all be clad, is proved
by the opening of the first wardrobe in
Paradise, with it's apparel of dark
That we should all, as far as
our means allow us, be beautifully and
gracefully appareled, is proved by the
fact that God never made a wave but
He gilded it with golden sunbeams, or
a tree but He g~arlanded it with bios
SONS, or a sky but He subdued it with
stars, or allowed even the smoke of n
furnace to ascend but He columned and
turreted and domed and scrollcd it
into outlines of indescribable graceful
ness. When l see the apple orchards
of the spring and the ~pageantry of the
autumnal forests, l come to the con-
clusion that if nature ever does
join the church, while she may
be a Quaker in the silence of
her worship, she will never be a
Quaker in h style of her dress. Why
the notches of n fern leaf, or the stamen
of a water lily? Why, when the day
departs, does it let the folding doors
of Heaven stay open SO long, when it
might go in so quickly? N summer
morning l saw an army of 10000 900
spears, each one adorned with n dia-
mond of the first water-I mean the
grass with the dew on it. When the
prodigal came home his father not
only put n Goa on his back, but jewel
ry on his hand. Christ wore a beard.
Paul, the bachelor apostle, not afflicted
with any s~entimentality, admired the
arrangement of n woman's hair when
he said, in his epistle: "If a woman
have long hair, it is Il glory unto
her." There will be n fashion in
Heaven as on earth, but it will be a diff
ferent kind of fashion. 1t will decide
the color of the dress; and the popula-
ton of that country, by a beautiful
law, will wear white. | say these
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