Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-11


peacocks, the awful question CT the
SOULS destiny submerged by the qaes-
ton of navy blue velvet and long fan
train skirt, loag enough to drag up tho
church aisle, the husbands store Office,
shop, factory, fortune and the admira-
ton Of Lalf the people in the building!
Men and women como late to church to
show their clothes People sitting down
in pew or taking up hymnbook, all
absorbed at the same time in personal
array, to sing:
Rise, mysoul' and stretch thy wiacs;
Thy better portion trace.
Rise from transiiory things
Toward heaven, thy native place.
l adopt tho Episeopalian prayer ana
say, Good Lord, deliver usl'
Insatiate fashion also belittles tie in
tellect. Our minds are enlarged or they
dwindle just in proportion to the i'm
portance Of the subject on which we
constantly dwell. Can you imagine any
thing more dwarfing to the human in
tellect than the study Of fashion? see
- oA' Wy stipu' Why, Judslns from
their elaboration, think must have
taken two hours to arrange their APP
PareL A!'er q rev years q mat KIND
of absorption, which ono of McAIlister's
magniiying glasses will be powerful
enough to make the man character
visible! 1hey All lana IN lalocy
nave seen men az me summer wa
'erlhg Places throush fashion, the mere
wreck OF what they once were. Sallo9
OF cneek- MeaSaf OF hmb. Hollow at
the chest. showing no animation save
~ rushing across Il room TO pick mp q
lady IAN olhpering alongsthe corrl-
aofs uie same compliments they sim
perea ~ years ago a New York law
yer az ohleeu otates hotei, saratoga,
"lthlh our nearing rushed across room
~ say 70 d senslple Wohah' gu are
as sweet as paachesl The fools OF fash
Ion are myriad Fashion not only de-
stroys the body butt makes idiotic the
intellect
yer. my friends, have given you
only the mllder phase OF this evil 1t
SHUTS great multitude out OF heaven.
Ihe INST peal OF thunder that shook 81
han declared Thou shalt have no other
500 before me- and you will have to
cheose between the goddess oil fashion
ana the Christian God There are great
many seats III heaven, and they are all
easy seats but not one seat for the dew
otee OF 1ashlon. Heaven Is for meek and
quiet spirits. Heaven is for those who
thlnk more OF their souls than of their
hodles Heaven IS for those who have
more JOY III Chflstlan charity than Ill
dry goods rellslon. Why, II you, with
your ldoiatry OF fashion, should some
now get INTO heaven, you would be for
putting q French roof ca the house Of
many mansions GIVE up this ldolatry
Oh FASHION CT give up heaven. What
would you 60 standing beside the Count
ess OF Huntington, whose joy it was to
oulld chapels for the poor, OF with that
christian woman OF Boston who fed
'oVo children OF the street at Faneuil
nan on New Years day, giving out as a
sort OF doNology at the end of the meet
ing a par OF shoes to each one of them,
OF those borcases OF modern society who
nave cohseefafed their needles to the
Lord LORD ana VINO WiH get eternal reward
lor every stltch they take
IN, h2en ana women, give up the
ioola'ry Oh iashlohi me rlyalEies and
the competitions OF such lie are q
stupendous wfetctedness. You will al
ways md some one with brighter array
anu with Ilore pAiaslal residence, and
WIN iayeh'ier hid groves That make a
tlsntef lit. ARD II you bay this thing
ana wear It You VIII wish you had
pohsht something else and Worn 1t
anu ihe ifess q speh u ilfe wall bring
1ne Gro" 1eet 10 yoar temples before
they arc cue ana When you come to die
you VIII nave q miserable time. | have
seen men and women OF fashion die,
, ~, never saw one OF them die well.
Inc tfapplngs on, there they lay ca the
tuinoied Pillow ana there were just
TWO Illlils5 that bothered them-a vast
ea NE ara a coming eternity coald
not paelly thein' Tor their body, mind
allu SOU had peen exhausted Ill the wor-
snip On lashloil ana they could not ap-
preelate tne gospel When knelt by
tnelr bedside they were mumhling out
tnelf regrets and saying: 20 Godi
oea! 1helr garments hung up IN
the "aIorooe, never again to be seen by
then- without any exception, so far as
my memory serves me, they died with
oue nope ana went into eternity unpre-
pared.
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