Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-08-03


drsssmakers. Enter the French MIL
liners. Enter all costly plate and ali
great extrav=gances.
Act the fourth-'riptop of society.
Priuces and princesses of upper ten
dom floating In and out. Everything
on large and magnificent scsle. En-
ter contempt for other people
Act the ffsh and lsst-Enter the
assignee. Enter tho sheriR. Enter
the creditors Enter humiliation. En-
ter wrath of God. Enter the con.
tempt of society. Enter ruin and
death. Now drop the curtain Tbs
play Ii ended. and the lights are out.
call II tragedy. That Is . mis-
homer. II In farce. =
Extravaganza counts for much OF
the pauperism. Who are these peo-
pie whom you have TO help7 Many
of them are the children of parentr
who had plenty. lived In luxury. had
more than they needed, spent all they
had. spent more. tooi then died and
left their families ia poverty. Some
Of those who call on you now fer aid
had an ancestry that supPed on bur-
gundy and woodcock. i could name .
score of men who have every luxury.
1 They smoke the best cigars. and they
| drink the hnest wines. and they have
| the Rrandest surroundings, and when
| they die their families will 20 on the
| cold charity Of the world Now, the
| death of such a man is q grand lar
/ ceny. He swindies the world he
/ goes into his cofin, and he deserves
20 have his bones sold TO the medical
museum for anatomical specimens,
| the proceeds TO furnish bread for his
children.
know Il cuts close. did not
know but some OF you In high dud-
geon would get mp and 90 OUT. You
stand Il welll Some of you make .
great swash in life, and after awhile
you will die, and ministers will be
sent for TO come and stand by your
coffin and lie about your excellences.
But they will not come II you send
for NE. will teal you what my text
will be: He that provideth not for
his own, and especially for those Of
his own household, Is worse than an
infidel." And yet we find Christian
men. men OF large means, who some
times talk sloqusntly about the Chris
tIan church and about civilization. ex-
pending everything on themselves and
| nothing on the cause Of God, and
they crack the back OF their Paieis
Royal glove IN trying 10 hide the
one cent they put IN the Lords treas
ury. What an apportionmenti Twsn-
" thousand dollars for ours selves and
one cent for God. All. my friends.
this extravaganza accounts for a
great deal Of what the cause OF Gee
suffers.
And the dissertation goes or. even
TO the funeral day. You know very
well there are men who die solvent,
but the expenses are 40 great before
they get underground they are insol.
vent. There are Families that 60 Into
penury in wicked response TO the dc.
mands Of this day. They put In cas-
ket and tombstons that which they
ought TO put in bread. They wanted
bread: you gave them a tombstone.
And then look how the cause %
God is impoverished. Men give 80
much sometimes for their indulgenoes
they have nothing for the cause OF
God and religion. Twenty-Five mil.
lion dollars expended In this country
year for religious purposesl But
!. what are the twenty-five millions en-
. pended for religion compared with
, the hundred millions expended On
. cigars and tobacco and then two thou
sand millions of dollars spent foE
rumf So n man who had fortune
of $3.50, 900, or what amounted 10 that,
! In London spent 10 ell In indulgenees.
chiefly in giuttonies. and sent hither
and Won for all the delicaciss. and
often had n meal that would cost 500
or $500 for himself. Then he was re-
dueed to 9 guinea, with which As
, bought q rare bird, hsd IL cooked ID
a best style. ate IL, took two hours foI
digestion. walked out On Westminster
, bridge and jumped into the Tame.
|, --on a large scale what unsn are do
, Ing on a small scale.
= Oh. my friends. let us take ou1
: stand against the sKtravagances o,
J. society. Do not pay for things which
are frivolous when you may lack th'
|. necessities. Do not put one month";
! wages or salary into q trinket. jus
/. one trinket. Keep your credit gooS
by seldom asking for say. Pay. d.
/. not starve q whole year to AFFORD on
r Belshazzar's carnival. Do not buy
q coat of many colors and then In ST
' months be out at the elbows. Flour
q ish not, as some people hsv
r. known. who took apartments "a
a fashionable hotel and had eiegan
a drawing-roons attached and the
A. vanished In the night, not even lea,
+ ing their compliments for the land
8. lord. I cell you. KY friends. In tn
10 day of Gods Judgment We VIII NO
m only have TO give an account for tn
Ia way We made our money. bat for th
. way we spent AZ. We have got {
leave ALI the thinQs that surround Y