Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-07-17
Act the second-Enter disconte.t

| dressmakers. Enter the French mil
liners. Enter all costly plate and all
| great eNtravagances.
Act the fourth-Tiptop of society.
Princes and princesses of upper ten.
dom floating in and out. Everything
on large and magnificent scale. En-
ter contempt for other people.
Act the fifth and last-Enter the
assignee. Enter the sheriff. Enter
the creditors. Enter humiliation. En-
ter wrath OF God. Enter the con
tempt of society Enter ruin and
death. Now drop the curtain. The
play is ended. and the lights are out.
l call il "a tragedy. That is a mis-
homer. 1t is a farce.
| Extravaganza counts for much of
the pauperism. Who are these peo-
pie whom you have to help? Many
! of them are the children of parents
who had plenty, lived in luxury. had
more than they needed, spent all they
/ had, spent more, too; then died and
left their families in poverty. Some
OF those who call on you now for aid
had an ancestry that supped on bur-
gundy and woodcock. / could name a
score of men who have every luxury.
They smoke the best cigars, and they
drink the finest wines. and they have
the grandest surroundings, and when
they die their families will go on the
cold charity of the world. Now. the
death of such a man is "A grand lar
ceny. He swindles the world as he
goes into his coffin, and he deserves
TO have his bones sold 10 the medical
museum for anatomical specimens,
the proceeds to furnish bread for his
children.
/ know it cuts close. | did not
know but some of you in high dud-
geon would get up and go out. You
stand it well, Some of YOU make "A
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. If YOU send
for me, | will tel 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
lnhdel. And yet we find Christi
men. men of large means, who some
times talk eloqucntly about the Chris
tian church and about civilizat ton, ex-
pending everything on themselves and
nothing on the cause of God. aud
they crack the back of their Palais
Royal glove in trying to hide the
/ one cent they put in the Lords treas
ury. What an appo-tionment! TWEEN
ty thousand dollars for ourselves and
one cent for God. All, my friends
this extravaganza accounts for
great deal Of what the cause of God
suffers.
And the desecration goes on. even
to the funeral day. You know very
well there are men who die solvent.
. but the expenses are so great before
they get underground they are insol-
vent There are families that 90 into
perjury in wicked response to the de
mands of this day. They put in cas-
kct and tombstone that which they
ought to put in bread. They wanted
bread; YOU gave them tombstone
And then look how the cause of
Cod is impoverished. Men give so
much sometimes for their indulgences
they have nothing for the cause of
God and religion. Twenty-Five mil
lion dollars expended in this country
a year for religious purposes! 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 for
rum? So n man who had "a fortune
of S7j0,O00, or what amounted to that.
in London spent it all in indulgences.
chiefly in gluttonies and sent hither
and yon for all the delicacies. and
hu al h-f Il
or 5000 for himself. Then he was re.
duced TO "a guinea, with which he
bought a rare bird. had it cooked in
best style. ate it. took two hours for
digestion. walked out on Westminster
bridge and jumped into the Thames
ON large scale what ,nrn are do.
ing on a small scale.
Oh, my friends, let us take our
stand against the eNtravagGnCes of
society. DO not pay for thinga which
are frivolous when you may Lash the
necessities. Do not put one maath's
wages or salary into a trinket, lust
one triuket Keep your credit txod
10y seldom asking for any. Payi 10
not starve a whole year to afford our
Belshazlar's carnival. Do not bue q
coat Of many colorS and then i'm e5x
months be out at the elbows. Flcu7.
lSh not as some people hr-a
known, who took apartments NJ 3
fashionable hotel and had elcgan.
drawing-rooms attached and then
vanished in the night, not even leav. |
ing their compliments for the land |
lord. tell you. my friends. i'm the |
day of Gods judgment we will not |
only have to give an account for the |
way we made our money. but for tine |
way we spent it. We have got &c |
leave all the things that surround ~. |
now.
Alas. il any OF you in the dying |
hour felt like the dying actress VINO |
asked that the casltct of Jewels be |
brought TO her and then turned them |