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Rev. Dr. 'llalsuage on the Influence of the
Idol of Fashion-Business and Character
shipwrecked on the Wardrobe-A Prac-
uonl Add Powerful Sermon.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 5.——Rcv. Dr. Talmage,
who is now in Melbourne on his round
the world tour, has chosen as the‘subject
of his sermon for today through the press
“The Tragedy of Dress, " the text selected
being, I Peter iii, 8, 4, “Whose adorning
let it not be that outward adorning of plait-
lag the hair and the wearing of gold or of
putting on of apparel. but let it be the bid-
den man of the heart.”
That we should all be clad is proved by
the opening of the first wardrobe in para-
dise with its apparel of dark green. That
we should all. as far as our means allow
us, be beautifully anti gracefully apparel-
cd is proved, by the fact that God never
made a wave but he gilded it with golden
sunbeams, or a tree but he garlandcd it
with blossoms, or a sky but .he studded it
with'stars, or allowed oven ' the smoke of
a furnace to ascend but he columned and
turreted and domed and scrolled it into
outlines of indescribable gracefulncss.
When I soothe applo orchard of the spring
and the pageantry of the autumnal for-
ests, I come to the conclusion that if na-
ture ever does join the church, while she
maybe a Quaker in the silence of her
worship, she never will ho a Quaker in the
style of her dress. Why the notches of
atom 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?
One summer morning I saw an army of
a million spears, each one adorned with a
diamond of the first water—l mean the
grass with the dew on it. When the prod-
igal came home. his father not only put a
coat on his back, but jewelry on his hand.
Christ woroa beard. Paul, the bachelor
apostle, not adiictcd with any sentimen-
tality, admired the arrangement of a wom-
an's hair when he said in his cplstle, “If a
woman have long hair, it is a glory unto
her." There will be a fully: in heaven
as on earth, but it will be a Herent kind
of fashion. It will decide the color of the
dress, and the population of that country,
by a beautiful law, will wear white. I say
these things asabaolrground to my sore
mon, to show you that l have no prim,
precise, prudish or cast iron theoriw on
the subject of human apparel. But the
goddess of fashion has set up her throne
in this world, and at the sound of the tim-
brels we are all expected to fall down and
worship. The Old and New Testament of
her liible are the fashion plates. licr altars
smoke with the sacrifice of the bodies.
minds and souls of of 10,000 victims. In
her temple four people stand in the organ
loft, and from them there corncs down a
cold drizzle of music, frcczing on the. cars
of her Worshipcrs. This goddcss of fashion
has bccomc a rival of the Lord of heaven
and earth, and it is high time that we un-
lirnbcrctl our battcrics against this idola-
try. When I mum to count tbc victims of
fashion, I find as many masculine as forni—
nino. Mun nmkc on may tirade against
woman, as though shc wcrc thc chief wor-
shipcr at this idolatrous shrine, and no
doubt some men in the umrc conspicuous
part of thc pcw have aln-ndy cast glances
at the more rctircd part of tho pcw, thcir
look a prophecy of n gcncrous distribu-
tion. My sermon shall bc as appropriate
for one end of the pew as for the other.
Frivnlltica of .‘h-n.
hicu are as much the itlolutor» of lush»
ion as Women, but thcy sacrifice on a dif-
ferent part of tho altar. With mun the
fashion goes to cigars anti clubroomn and
yachting partics and wiuc suppcrs. In the
United States the men chew up and smoke
$100,000,t’)00 worth of tobacco cvcry year.
That is theirfnshion. In London not long
ago a titan dicd who had startcd in life
with $750,000, but he ate it all up in glut
tonics, scnding his agcnts to all parts of
NW carib for some rare dciiczu-y for tho
pnlntc, somclitucsonc plain of fund costing
him $300 or M00. llo ntc up his whole
fortune and had only onc gniuca loft.
Willi that be boughta \vomlcock. had it
drcss‘cd in the very bcst siyln, run it, gave
twu hours for digcstion, thou walked out on
Westminster bridgc and throw hintsclf Into
the Thames and dicd, doing on a large scale
what you and T hayr- oficn soon done on a
Saudi scale. lint men do not abstain from
milllncryand elaboration of skirt through
any superiority of humility. it is only
bt-t'nttso such uppcndttgca Would be a
blockade in busincss. What Would sush-
cs and trains 1i lfi yards long do in a
stock market? And yet men are the dis-
ciples of fashion just as much as wom-
en. Some of thorn Wt‘ul‘ boots so tight
they can hardly walk in the paths of right-
eousness. And thorn are mcn who buy
cxtwnsive suits of clothcs and ncvcr pay
for lbcm, and who go through the slrccts
In grcni stripcs of color. like nnituptcd
cbcckcrhonrtls. I say thcsc things llt't‘llllrill
I want to show you that I am impartial in
my discourse, and that both i-il'Xi‘rl, in tho
language of the surrogntc’s ofllr‘c, shall
“chm-e and share aliko ” As Hod may
ltclpmo, I shall show you what arc the
destroying and dcatbful inilucncca of in»
ordinate fruition.
The first bnlcful Irtllucnco I notice is In
fraud, lllintitablo and ghastly. Do you
know that Arnold of tho licmiulinn pro-
posed ioscli his country in urticr to gut
inoucy to suppmt his wife‘s wardrobci‘ I
declare here bcforo ilod and this people
that tho cflort to krcp up expensive estab-
lishments in this country is sending more
business men to icrnporai [wrditlou than
all other cruises combined. What was it
that scat llllnran to tho penitentiary. and
l’hiltuiclphln Morton to tho watering of
stocks, anti the life insurance prcaldcnts to
pcrjurcd staicnu-ntrt about their assets,
and has completely upset our American
finances? What was it that overthrow the
United States secretary at \l'ashingtou.
the crash of whose fail shook the conti»
ncnil llut why should i go to these fa~
mous dcfauitlngs to show what men will
do in calm to keep up great home style
anti expensive wanlmbc, when you and i
know scores of men who are put to their
wits' end and are lashed from January to
December in the attempt?
Our politicians may theorize until the
expiration of their tormsof oillco as to the
best way of improving our nmnctary con;
ditlon in this country. it will be of no
use and things will be no better until we-
loarn to put on our heads anti backs and
i0“ and hands no more than we can pay
01'.
Tragedy of Human Clothes.
There are clerks in statues and banks on
limited salaries who, in the vain attempt
to keep the wardrobe of their family as
showy 3 other folks' microwave dying
of as and diamonds and shawls and
high lists, and they have nothing lattes.
septum they give to cigars and wins
«was. so! they dis Hens.
their”:
and , . . ” ' MW . .
about thorns! . .r :w Mmtt-rie-t
than of early 9%. and after a high class
funeral, with silver handles at‘the side of
the coffin of extraordinary brightness, It
will be found out that the undertaker is
cheated out of his legitimate expenses!
llo not send to me to preach the funeral
sermon of a man who dies like that. I
will blurt out ,the whole truth anti tell
that he was strangled to death by his
wife‘s ribbons. ()ur countries are dressed
to death. You are not surprised to find
that the putting up of one public building
in New York cost millions of dollars more
than it ought to have cost when you find
that the man who gave out the common
paid more than $5,000 for his daughter’s
wedding dress. Cashrncres of a thousand
dollars each are not rare on Broadway. It
is estimated that there are 10,000 women
.in these two cities who have expended on
their personal array :4, 000 a year.
What are men to do in order to keep up
each home wardrobes? Steali That is the
only respectable thing they can do. flaring
the last 15 years there have been innumer-
able fine businesses shipwrecked on the
Wardrobe. The temptation comes in this
way: A man thinks more of his faintly
than of all the world outside. and if they
spend the evening in describing to him
the superior wardrobe ofthe family across
the street, that they cannot hear tho sight
of, the man is thown on his gallantry and
on his pride of family and without trans-
lating his feelings into plain language he
goes into extortion and issuing of false
stock and skillful penmanshlp in writing
somebody clso‘s name at the foot of a
promissory note. and they all go down to-
gether—the husband to the prison, the
Wife to the sewing machine, the children
to be taken care of by those who were
called poor relations. Oh, for sortie now
Shakespeare tourist: and write the tragedy
of human clothcsi
Will you forgive me if I say in tr-rsnst
shape possible that some of the men have
to forge and to pcrjure and to swindle to
pay for their wives' dresses? 1 will say it
whether you forgive me or not.
A Foe of Almsgiving.
Again, inordinate fashion is the foe of
all Christian aimsgiving. Men and wom-
en put so much in personal display that
they often have nothing for God and the
cause of suffering humanity. A Christian
man cracking his Palais Royal glove
across the back by shutting up his hand
to hide the cont he puts into the poor-
hox. A Christian woman. at the story of
the .Bottontots, crying copious tears into
a $25 handkerchief and than giving a 2
cent piece to the collection, thrusting it
under the bills so people will not know
but it was a 5m goldpieco. One hundred
dollars for incense to fashion; 2 coats for
God. God gives us iii) cents out of every
dollar. The other 10 cents by command
of his Biblc bclong to him. Is not God lib-
eral according to his tithing systcm laid
down in the Old 'l‘cstamcnt? Is not God
iibcrnl in giving us in) cents outof a dollar
when he takes but it)? We do not likc that.
We want to have in) cents for Ulll‘til'li'i'n and
l for God.
Now, I would a great deal raihcr steal
10 cents from you than from God. 1 think
one reason why a great many Iuvttpic do
not get along in worldly accumulation
flutter is because they do not obscrw this
divine rule. God says, ”Well, if that man
is not satisfied with 00 cents of a dollar,
tin-n I will take the whole dollar, and I
will give it to the man or woman who is
honest with me." The greatest obstacle
to charity in the (‘hristian church today
is the fact that mcn cxpcnd so much mon-
cy on thcir tablc, and Women so much on
thcir dross, they have got nothing lift for
the Work of find and the World's In-tfcr-
merit. In my first scttlcmt‘ni at Built-ville,
X. .i., the cause of missions wasbcing pro
scutcd one Sabbath, and u pica for flu-
charity of the people was lwing made, whcn
an old (‘hristinu man in thc nudicncc lost-
his bttlaucc and said right out in the midst.
of the sermon, “Mr. Tulmttgc, how arc we
to give Iibt-rully to thcst- grand and glo-
rirltts can-ms when our futnllius tircss as
ihcy do?" I did not.- answer that tilll'~llltll
It was the only time in my lilo when I
had Nothing to my.
"my Fashion Dlnlrncis “’orrthip.
Again. inordinate fashion is distraction
to public \l‘tll‘bliill You know vcr'y \vcll
lln-l'c are a good runny pcopic who i“ into Iii
church just as thcy go to the I‘llf‘t‘a to 5m-
who will come out first. What a iluttcr it
nmkcs in church \l'IlI‘ll Ntllit' woman with
cxtrtwrdinur)‘ display of Tllhllilifl coin-wt ln‘
“What u Im‘c of u bunnct?" says rtllll"
onc. “What a pcrfcct fright!" say iiw
buntircd. Fur the most mcrcilcss critics
in tho World arc fashion critics, Mcu and
womcn with soul-t to bc r-nvcrl ptwtng tho
hour in wondcrlng witcrc that man got
his cravat or what return that wmnart ptt
tronizr-s. In many of our church” ibo
pn‘llmlnary cxcrci‘cs arc tnkcn up with
tho discussion of wardrobcs. It is pilla-
blo. Is It not wondcriul that tho Lord
docs not strike tbc tum-ting boom-s with
lightningl What distraction of public
worship! llying mcn tutti wumcn, whom
Ilililll‘i are soon to lmturtu-ti Illfu lill~I, yot.
bciot'c ibrcc Worlds strutting llkc pctu ticks,
lint awful qucstiollof iltosoul't- disliny
sttluttcrgcd by the question of navy bluc
\‘clw-t and long fun train skirt. long
cuougb to drug up tbc church tti~ltu the
husband‘s Mot-c. oilicc. shop, incitwy. for
intro and thcudmirntionof imit‘ thc puttplc
in tho building. .\Icn and \vontcu mun-
luluilt l'lllll‘f‘ll to slum“ fitt'ir r'i-tlltt a I“ H
pic ~itting down in n pcw or tolling up it
ltyntrrbrtok, nil nlmorbctl at ”to snow lllttt‘
in ywrrtonnl array to sing:
lllw. my soul. and stroll-h thy ninth:
'i'lty Iu'ilur portion frat-o.
lilac from transitory things
’l‘ownt'ri ltcuvon. thy name piaw.
l adopt the Episcopalian prnycr and
any, “flood Lord, dclivcr usi"
Irtsntlato fashion also lwlittlcs the in.
tt-llt-ct. tlnr minds are cnlnrgml ltl‘iIlt‘y
tiwindlo just In proportion to tho ltnpor
tnnct- of tint subjct'ton which wccon‘tatttr
Iy dwell. i'tin youimnglnn anylitlngntorc
tlwnriing to the human lntci‘cct than tbc
study of fashion? I rtcc nwn on tho slrcct
who, judging from their t-inborntion, i
think must have lnkcn tWo hour.» tour-
rangc their apparrcl. Aficr a fcw years of
that kind of absorption, which one of tile
Allistcr'r-t magnifying giro-Mu will lw pttW-
crful cnongh to mako thcman‘s chnractcr
visible? They all land in ltlitwy. I have
tit-on men at the summer watering pltwt's
through fashion the nrcrc wrr-ck of what
they once were. Sallow of check. Mt'liw‘l'
of limb. Hollow at the circa-it. Showing
an animation save in rushing across a
rmnn to pick up a lady's fan. Simpcrittg
along the corridors, the same omnidi-
mcnts thcy illflllltil‘t'fl 20 years ago. A
New York lawyer at United States hotel,
Sarntoga, within our hearing, rushed
across a room to say to a sensible woman.
“You are as sweet as washout" The tools
of fashion are myriad. Fashion not only
destroys the body. but it makesidlotio the
intellect
A Wasted “to. ’
Yet, my friends; i have given you only
the milder phase of this evil. ls shuts a
Insist multitude outlet heaven The first
" ' «not
and you will have to
goddess of fashion and the Christian God.
There area great many seats in heaven,
and they are all easy seats, but not one
seat for the devotee of fashion. fienven is
for meek and quiet spirits. Heaven is for
those who think more of their souls than
of their bodies. Heaven is for those who
have more joy in Christian charity than in
dry goods religion. Why. if you with
your idolatry of fashion should somehow
get into heaven, you would be for putting
a French roof on the “housle many man»
sions.” Give up thisv‘idolat‘ryxof fashion
or give up heaven.
What would you do standing
Countess of Huntington, whose in it was
to build chapelstfor the poor, or wi hat
Christian woman of Boston who fed 1', ’
children of the street at Faneuii hall on
New Year's day, giving out as a sort of .
doxology at the end of the meeting a pair
of shoes to each one of them. or those
Dorcases of modern society who have con-
secrated their needles to the Lord, and
who will get eternal reward for every
stitch they take. 0h, men and women.
give up the idolatry of fashion. The rival-
ries and the competitions of such alife
are a stupendous wretchcdness. You will
always find some one with brighter array,
and with more palatial residence, and
with lavender kid gloves that make a
tighter fit. And if you buy this thing and
wear it you will wish you had bought
something else and worn it. And the frets
of such a life will bring the crows' feet to
your temples before they are due. and
when you come to die you will have a mis-
erable time. I have seen men and women
of fashion die, and 1 never saw one of
them die well. The trappings off, there
they lay on the tumbled pillow, and there
were just two things that bothered them
—a wasted life and a coming eternity. I
could not pacify them, for their hotly,
mind and soul had been exhausted in the
worship of fashion, anti they could not up.
preclate the gospel. When I knelt by their
bedside, they were mumbling out their
regrets and saying: “O God! 0 Godi"
Their garments hung up in the wardrobe
never again to be seen by them. Without
any exception, so far as my memory serves
me, they died without hope and went into
eternity unprepared.
Eternal Expatriatlon.
The most ghastly deathbeds on earth
are the one where a man dies of delirium
truncns, and the other where a woman
dies after having sacrificed all her facul-
ties of body, mind and soul in the worship
of fashion. My friends, we must appear
in judgment to answer for what we have
worn on our lxailos as well as for what re-
pentanccs we have exercised with our
souls. (in that day I see coming in Beau
Brurnmcl of the last century, without his
cloak, like which all England got a cloak,
and without his cane, like which all
England got a cane; without his snuff-
box, like which all England got a snail—
box. lie, the lap of the ages, particular
about everything but his morals, and
Aaron liurr, without the letters that down
to old ago he shuwcd in pride to prove his.
early wicked gaiiantrios, and Absolom
without his hair, and Ninrchloness l’um—
padrmr without her titles. and Mrs. Ar~
nold, the bcllc of Wall strict whcu that
was the center of fashion, without her
frlppcrics of vest-um
And in great haggard ncss thcy shalligo
away into ctcrnnl cxpztlriutlnn. while
among the queens of hctivcnly socicty will
he found \‘ashtim'ho worc thc modcsi vcil
before the palatial luwcharralitms,aml Han»
nah, who annually made a little coat for
Samuel at the temple, and Grandmother
Lois, the anal-strips of Timothy, who im-
itated hcr \‘irtuc, and Mary, who gave
Jesus (‘hrist to tho world. and many of
you, the wins and motbcrs and sistcrs
and daughrcrs of tho prcscnt Christian
church, who. through grout tribulation,
arc coloring into the kingdom of God.
(‘hrist annotttthtl \VIiil‘VUlllil runkcup tho
royal family of IlHWt‘fl whcn he said.
“Whosocv‘cr doclh lhc will of iiotl, rho
sumo is my brother, my sister, my moth
er. ”
WM
Not Scared n. Mite.
Wtrr Fitrrit'rl are mmtly ovcrritw, but
hcru is one that is frcsh. and it illustrates
bravo lit‘llllll'llillllliltll admirably. A Wcll
known Now linglaudcr was south mun
aftcriho closc of thc war and visitcd Mur-
frccsbot-o. 'l't-nn Wbiic looking about h.-
mct an old colon-ti man who looked as
though Ilt‘ was itltligcnous in the soil. The
following mnvcrsaiiou rc-tuiimi:
"Wt-ll, unclc, Wcrc you raised about
hcrc’”
“Yes. massn,
here."
“Tin-u you must bnvc sccn tho big but
tlohcro lloyou rcmcmbcr much about
it?”
“Oh, you, massa. T ‘rucrulwrs all about
the big bnltlc Twas right lu-rc. "
“Wcli, tin-n, tell mo something about
I’ve nllus livcd right
it. How did you fool? Wcrcn‘t you
scarcd'”
“lib, no, mnssa. l wnrn't scared a
mile. Twas witcrc I could am the sojcrs
all about marchiu and hilltllllll, an I jcss
clumb up on topof a rail fcncc an sot
there an H'Ull tho fight go on. .1ch thcn
along como a big boom, an it ktttwkcd
about 40 rolls 0' that fcnco out o' sight.
on but I knowctl was tbrcc wccks after,
\vhcn l was but rnilcs up tho country
workin for my boa'tl, but i wasn't skrirt.
No. anhi"—-iioston llornhl.
Artificial Diamonds.
To make chcls and gold has bccu the
hope of tho chemist from the rcntoicst rctr
ortirt of ilrnc, and that the intorcst is as
keen on cvcr is dcrnonstratcd by tho atton‘
that tho clcctric furnace of French sclcn-
list has uttractcri. This furnncc is made
of llntt-stonc, with an inside crucible corn-
poscd of carbon and magncsia. A curios-
ity in its construction and one that is sug-
gestive for other new is a {coding lube
and one for discharge. liy moons of this
the material to be in-atcd may be poured
In and taken out without disturbing the
Interior. ’l‘bo tcmpcraturo pmduccd is
about 53,500 tlcgrcca (J. For rcducing the
metals, a currcnt of about lit)” nmporos
and 00 volts is rcrluircrl. 'i‘hc specially in-
teresting result is the prmiuctlon of crys-
tals of carbon. Those are fortuctl by fus-
ing iron with an csccss of carbon, flu-n
plunging tho vcsscl containing the carbon
solution In mid watcr. v The production of
larger diamonds is rcc ’oncri upon as only
a question of time». cw York licdger.
crafty.
lslccp most sweetly when l have trav-
eled in the cold. Frost and snow are
friends to the M‘Hl, though tiwy are cac-
mies to the flower. Arlvt-reity is indeed
contrary to glory, but it inatriundcth grace.
wltlchartl Baxter.
Political min-nay.
She—Does it make anything cheaper to
Mt it on the free listf
flu-amusing. my dear.
Bite-JIM: why don't they put house
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