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The Sioux County Journal,
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VOLUME VI.
HAKKIKOX, NEBRASKA; THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1894.
NUMBER 50.
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TA M AfJK'S S K U M O V i
AHMAVtj 3 OUItiUUiJ.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT WE
WEAR ON OUR BODIES.
Kv. fr. Talmage on thr InHaraoe of IMm
Idol of fiuliiim - llmlom and ( lnrolr
Klilpwr. krl imi tlm rdrttlM A I'r.o,
ttel tiod l'OMrful cif-riiMHi.
Th l'rnwl Trgrdy.
Rev Dr. Tul iiiue, who is now in
Melbourne ou tun ru ,nd the world tour,
ban chosen as the subject of his ser
mon through the press "The Tragedy
of Dress," tho text selected being f
l'eter iii, .'1, 4, "Whoso adorning let It
not be that outwaid adorning ot plait
ing the hair and the wearing of void or
of putting ou of apparel, but let it b
the hidden man o the heart.''
That we should all be clad is proved
by the opening of the tiisl wardrobe la
paradise witlnUap) arelof dark green.
That we should all, as fur a-, our mean
lll.W II- I.. I.,,ili(f,ilu .r,A ..r.,11..
appareled is proved by the tact tbata
" , ' ' ' . 1 ...... Kl .l(...
God never made a wave but He giirtedTt
It with golden sunbeams, or a tree but
U garlanded it with bloiwtius, or
ky Oat lie studded it with start, at
allowed even the smoke of a lurnao
to ascend but tie columned and tur
retod and domed ana scrolled it into
outlines of Indescribable gra-celulitoHaV
When X see the apple orchard of the
pring and the pageantry of the au
tumnal forests, 1 como to the conclu
sion that if-nature ever doc oiu. th
church, while she may be a Ouaker ifl
the silence of her worship, she never
will be a Quaker in the style of her
dress. Why the notches of a feru leaf
or the stamen of a water lily ." Why,
when the day arts, does it let thft
folding doors ot Ilea en stay open so
long, when it mil; ht go iu so ninckly?
One summer mo ning I saw ao array
of a mil iou spears, each one adorned,
with a diamond o. the lirst water l
mean the gra with tho dew on ik
VV heu tho prouioal came home, bin
fat her not only put a coat ou his back '
but jewelry ou Ii.b hand. Christ woro
aboard, i'aul. the bachelor a)ostlofs
not afflicted with any sentimentality,,
admired the arrangement of a woman'
hair when he said in his epi-tle, "If a
woman have long hair, it is a glory
unto her." There will lie u fashion in
lloavou as on earth, but it will tie '
different kind of fashion. It will do-1
cido the color of the dress, and the f
population of that country, bv a beaiiti.
ful law, will wear white. I sav these
things as a background to my sermon,'
v snow you that 1 have no pruu, pre
cise, pruuisn, or cast iron theories
i, or cast iron theories OB f Tnfy and on his pride of family ana
of hum in aparel. Uiijft'jp'bout translating hi feelings into
of Inalium ha so . p.J?Va -iMUwrni he- ijuisa into cU: i on
the sub ect
toe gouaesaol jnauuia nass., uu
throne In th s world, and at the soud
of the timbrels wu aro all expected to
fall down and worship. The Old and
New Testament of her bible are the
fashion plate,. Her altars smoke with
the sacrilicu of llio bodien, minds and
souls of IU.inki victims. In her temple
four people stand lu the organ loft,
and Iroru them there comes down a
cold drizzle of music, freezing on the
ears of hor worshippers. This goddess
of fashion has Income a rival of the
Iord of heaven and earth, und it la
hUh time that, we unllmlHired our bat
teries againxt this idolatry. When I
come to count the victims of fashion,
I find as many masculine as feminine.
Men make an easy tirade against
woman, as though she were the chief
worshipper at tn s idolatrus shrine,
and no doubt some men in the more
conspicuous part of the pew have al
ready cast glances ut the more retired
part of the pew. t heir look a prophecy
of a genorou-i di tribution. My ser
mon shall le anappropriate foronoend
of the pew as for the other.
Frlnllll of Mcu.
Men are as much the idolatom of
fasion as women, but they eacriliee on
a tliilerent part of the altir. With man
the fashion goes to cigars, and olub
rooms. and yachting parties, and wine
Ujiors. In the United Stales men
chew up and smoke $10(1,1(00,11011 worth
of tob ceo every vear. That is their
fusliion. In London not long atro a
man died who hail started in llle with
tl i ,000, but ho ate it all up In glutton
ies, sending hU agents to all parts of
the earth for some rare dohcacy fur
the palate, sometimes one plate of food
costing him .' or 4uu. He ate up
his whole fortune and had only one
guinea loft. With that he bought a
woodcock, had it dressed in the very
best i-tyie, ato it, gavo two hours for
di 'est on. and walked out on Westmin
ister bridge and threw himself into
the Thames and died, doing on a large
(. o what you and I have olten soon
done on a small scale. But men do not
abstain from millinery and olaliortion
ol skirt through any sujieriority of hu-
mii iv. it is omy oecatiso such appun-
di ges would be a blockade to business.
V hat would sashes and trains tnroo
and a half yards long do in a stock
market:' And vet men aro the de-
ciples of fashion mst as much as
womun. Some of thein wear boots so
tight they can hardly walk In the
paths of righteousness. And there are
men who buy expensive suits of clothes
ami never pay for them, and who ifO
through the streets in great stripes of
color, like animated checkerboards, i
say these things localise 1 w.int to
show you that I am impartial In my
discourse, and that both sexes, in the
language of tho surrogate' oltlce, shall
''share and share alike." At Cod may
help me, I shall show you what are the
destroying and deathful intlaoncos of
In irdiriate fashion.
The lirst baleful lntluonce I notice Is
li raud. illimitable and ghantly. Do
yen know that Arnold of the Uevolu
tlon proMMod to so l his country In or
(I. r to get moiioy to sup, ort his wife'
wardrobe? 1 declare here before Cod
B'l.i this jwople that the ellort to keep
up extensive establishment in this
country is sending more business men
to temporal perdition than all other
c uses combined. What was It that
si nt Clluian to tho penitentiary, and
I hiladelphia Morton to the watering
ol stocks, and the life insur
ance presidents to perjured statement
,,out thir and i completely
Ulauit our Au,ril,g hnanc.e' What
w it that overthrew the United
BUte Secretary at Washington, the
crash of whos mil shook the conti
nent But why should I go to these
famous defaulting to snow what men
will do in order t keep up great home
style and ex pen he i lirnbe. when
you and J know scores of men who are
put to thuir wlu' end and are lushed
from January to December in the at
tempts Our politicians may theorize until
the expiration of thu'ir term of office
as to the l-st way of improving our
monetary condition in this country. It
will Ie of no use aiid things will be no
better until we learn to put on our
heads and barks and feet and hands no
more than we can pay for.
Trifnljr of Hainan l.'lothrft.
, There are clerks in stores and banks
on limited salaries who, in the vain at
tempt to keep the wardrobe of their
family an showy as other 'oik-' w;c -robe,
are dying of mum i,.uu.uiin)ucl8
aod shawls and high hats, and they
nave noiuing leu except what they
give to i cigar and wine suppers, and
inoy die nelore their time, and the
will exjiect us ministers to preach
about tberu as though they were the
victims of early piety, and afUw- a high
class funeral, with silver handles at
the side of the cottin of extraordinary
brightness, it w ill be fonnd out that
the undertaker is cheated out of his
legitimate expenses!
Do not send me to preach the funeral
aermon of a man who dies like that. I
will blurt out the whole truth and tell
that ho was strangled to death by his
wrfe's ribbons. Our countries are
dressed to death. You are not sur
prised to find that the putting up of
one public building in New York cost
millions of dollars mo-e than it ought
to have cost when you tint that the
man who gavo out the contr.u ts paid
more than fcr,iMi for his daughter s
wedding dress. Cashmeres of a thou
sand dollars each are not rare on
Broadway. It in estimated that there
are in.iHi women in these two cities
who have expended on their personal
array h,iw a year.
What are men to do in order to keep
Up Buc-h homo wardrobes? Steal! That
in the only respectable thing they can
do. During the lat fifteen years there
have been innumerab e lino businesses
ahipwrooked on the wardrobe. The
MtuptutKm comes in this way: A man
thinks more of his family than of all
the world ortside. and if they spend
!h evening in describing to aim the
Ouperior wardrobe o tho family across
the street, that they cannot heir the
sight of, the man is thrown on his ga!-
ntry and on his pride of family and
and issuing of false stock and skillful
penmanship ir writingsomebody else's
name at the foot of a promissory note,
and they all down together the
husband to the prison, the wife to the
sowing machine. Mie children to bo
taken care of Dy tbo-o who were culled
I oor relations Oh, for some now
Shukspeuro to ari-e and write the
tragedy ol h man clothes'
Will you orgivo me if I say in ter
aest shape possible that nmo of tho
men have to fo go and perjure and to
swindle to pay for i.heir wives' dres es.'
I will sa, it whether you orgive me
or not.
A Vim of Almn!vln)f
Again, inordinate fashion is the foe
of all ( hristi.in almsgiving. Men and
women put so much in personal dis
play that they often have nothing for
God and the cause of sullertng human
ity. A Christian man cracking his
1'al isItoai giove ac -Oss ' he back by
shu.tinp up his hand to hide the cent
he puts into the iswr-box. A Chris
tian worn, n, at the story of the Hot
tentot, crying copious tears into atJi
handierehiof and then giving a Z cent
piece to the co'lection, thrusting it
under the bills so pecple will not know
but it was a 1 10 gold piece. (Jno hun
dred dollars for Incense to fashion: -cents
for God. God gives up !)0 cents
out of every doll.ir. The ot her Kiconts
by command of His Bible belong to
Him. Is not God liberal according to
His tithing system laid down in the
Old Testament.-' Is not Cod liberal in
riving us ;J cents out of a dollar when
le takes but lo? Wo do not like that.
We want to have Hit cents forourselves
and I for Co I.
Now, I would a great, deal rather
steal 10 cents from you than from God.
I thiniono reason why a great many
jsjople do not eet along in worldly a
cumulat on faster is because they do
not observe this divine rule. God
says. "Well, if that man Is not satis
fied with 00 cent of the dollar, then I
will take the whole dollar, and I wi 1
give it to tho man or wonun who is
honest with rae. " The greatest ob
stacle to charioty in the Chrstian
Church to day Is the fact t hat men ex
pend so much money on their tublo,
and women so much on thoir dress,
they have got nothing left for the
work of God and the world s bolter
mcnt. In my lirst settlement at Bollo
vil'e, iV. J., the cau o ol missions was
tiding presented one Sabbath, and a
idea for tho charily of tho people was
being made, when an old Christian
ma i in tho audionce lost his balance
and said right out in tho midst of the
sermon, ''Mr, Talmago, how are we to
give liberally to these grand and glo
riousi auses whoa our famil.es dress as
they do;'" I did not answer that ques
tion. It was tho on v time in my l.fo
when I h d nothing to say,
How K Huh Ion lintntu VVomhlp.
Again, inordinate fashion is dip trac
tion to publie worn b , p. You know very
well thore uro a good many people who
come to church just as they go to tho
ra 'os to soe who wld come out first.
What a flutter it makes in church
when some woman with extraordinary
display of fashion comes in! "What a
lovely bonnet." says someone. "What
a perfect fright." say five hundred.
For the most merciless critics in the
world are fashion critics. Men 'and
women with souls to be saved passing
tho hour In wondering where that man
got his cravat or what store that wo
man patronl.ea. In many of our
churches the preliminary exercises are
taken up with the discussion of ward
rol. It is pitiable. Is it not wonder
ful that the iord does not strike the
meeting houses with lightning. What
distraeiioii of public worship! Dying
nu n and women, whose oodies are soon
to te turned into dust, yet before three
worlds strutting like peacocks, the
awful ouention of the soul s destiny
submerged by the question of navy
blue velvet and long fan train skirt,
long cno gh to drag up the church
a.s.e. the husband's store, o lice, shop,
factory, fortune, and the admir.ition of
half the people in the building. Men
and women come late to church to show
their cloihes. I'eople sitting down in
a iew or taking up a hymn book, all
alsorbeii at the same time in personal
ai ray to s ng.
Klee bit wrol, aud ttrott-b tbr wiuga;
Thy letter po tion trace,
K!m from lriuiif wy tliiufi
Toward Heav jj, tby niiv plc.
T adopt the Ep'scopalian prayer and
say. "Good Lord, deliver us "
insatiate fashion also belittles the
inte.lect. Our minds are enlarged or
they dwind:e just in proiortion to the
ini orUince of the subject on which we
constantly dwell. Can you imagine
anything more dwarting to the hu
man intellect than the stud . of fash-1
ioni luee men on the street who(
judging from their elaboration, 1 think
must bae taken two hours to arrange
their apparel. After a few year0 of
that kind of absorption, which one of
McAllisters magnifying glasses will
be powerful enough to make the man's
character visible." They ail land in
idiocy. I have seen men at the suui
mer watering places through fashion
the mere wreck of what they once
were. Sallow of cheek. Meager of
limb. Hollow at the chest. Showing
no animation save in rushing across a
room to pick up a lady's fan. Simper
ing across tho corridors, the same
compliments thev simpered twenty
years ago. A New York lawyer at
United States Hotel, Saratoga, within
our hearing, rushed across a room to
say to a sensible woman, "You are as
sweet as peaches!" The fools of
fashion are myriad. Fashion not only
destroys the body, but it makes idiotic
tho intellect.
A WaaU-d IJf
Yet. my friends, I have given yo i
only tho mi der phase of this evil. It
shuts a great multitude out of Heaven.
Tho first peal of thunder that shooic
Sina deelared, "Thou shalt have no
other God before me," and you will
have to choose between the go idess
of fashion and the Christian God.
There are a great m ny seats in
Heaven, and they are all easy seats,
but not one seat for the devotee of
fashion. Heaven is for meek and
uot. pMt , Heaven injor thowbo
think more of their souls than of their
bodies. Heaven is for those who have
more joy in Christian charity than in
dr . goods religion. Why. if you with
your idolatry of fashion should some
how get into Heaven, you won 'a be
lor putting a French roof on the "house
ot many mansions." Give up this idol
atry of fashion or give up Heaven.
What would you do standing beside
tho Countess of Huntington, whose ,oy
it was to build chapels for the poor, or
with that Christian woman ol Boston
who fed l,5oo children of the street at
Faneuil Hall on New Year's day. giv
ing out as a sort of doxology at t he end
of the meeting a pair of shoes to each
one o? them, or those Dorcases of mod
ern society who nave consecrated their
needles to the 1 ord, and who will get
eternal reward for every stitch they
take. oh. men and women, give up
the idolatry of fashion. The rivalries
and tho competitions of such a life ar.:
a stupendous wretchedness. Y'ou will
alw,ys find some one with brighter
array, and with more palatial resi
dence, and with lavender kid gloves
that make a tighter lit. And if you
buy this thing and wear it you will
wish you haxl bought something else
and worn it. And the frets of such a
life will bring tho crows' feet to your
temples lieforo they are duo, and when
you come to die you will have a mis
erable time. I have seen men and wo
men of fashion die, and I never saw
one of them die well. The tappingH
oil, there they lay on the tumbled
pillow, and there were just twoth ngs
that bothered thein - a wasted life and
a coming eternity. I could not pacify
them, for thoir body, mind and soul
had been exhausted in the worship or
fashion, and ihcy could not appreciate
the gospel. When I knelt by their
bedside, they were mumbling out their
regrets und saying: "O God. O God! '
Thoir garments hung up in tho w rd
roN never again to be seen by them.
Without any exception, so fur as my
memory servos me, thoy died without
hope and went into eternity unpre
pared. Etrrml RtpatrlHtion.
The most ghastly deathbeds on earth
are the one where a man dies of delir
ium tremens, and the other where a
woman died after having sacrificed all
her facu ties of body, mind, and soul in
the worship of fashion. My friendH,
we raiiHt appear In .udgmont to answer
for what wo ha e worn on our bodies,
as well as for what repentances wo
have exercised with our souls. On
that day I see coming in Beau lirura
mel of ttie laxt century, without his
cloak, like which all England got a
cloak, and without his cane, likewhlch
all Kngland got a cane, without his
snullbox, like which a I Kngland got a
snulTbox. He, the fop or the ages, par
ticular about everything but his mor
als, and Aaron Burr, without the let
ters thut don to old ago he showed In
pride to prove his early wicked gallan
tries, und AbfOlom without his hair,
and Marchioness 1'ompa lour without
hor titles, and Mrs. Arnold, the belle
of Wall street when that was the cen
ter of fashion, without her fripperies
of vesture.
And in great haggardness they shall
go away into eternal ex; atrlation,
while among the i neons of heavcrly
boo ety will be found Vashti, who wore
tho modest ve 1 before the palatial
bacchanalians, and Hannah, who annu
ally made a 11. t e coat for Samuel at
tho temple, and Grandmother Ixis,
the ancestress of Timothy, who im
itated her virtue, and Mary, who gmro
Jesus Christ to the world, and many of
you. the wives and mothers and sisters
and daughters of the pre en t Christian
church, who. through great tribula
tion are enteing into the kingdom of
1 God. Christ announced who would
; make up the royal family of Heaven
' w en He said, "Whosoever doeth the
; will of God. the same is my brother,
my sister, my mother.
SOULS OF SECLUDED SPOTS.
1I in IViuplN Hauuuul by the Mjratlc Spirit
Whlrli Out.inat All aim.
Marion Crawford, writing of the
wonderful Italian coast between Sor
rento and Amain, in the Century,
says:
The genius loci of the ancients is
not altogether a myth. A truer
mystic, sui than their mythology
teaches us that places re Lai a for ages
something of the lives that have been
lived in them, an echo of the voices
that have made them musical, a fleet
ing shadow of the men and women
who found m them their happiness
or their sorrow. Those who have
spent' much time in secluded spots
learn to feel that lonely places have
souls; and the soul of a place is in
deed Its genius loci, its familiar spirit,
iu peculiar essence, as real a thing
as the scent of a rose or the smell of
the sea. There are rose-gardens in the
hast that are lair with the. accumu
lated happiness or past generation!.
There are shady ilex-groves in Italy
wherein still dwells the silent spirit
of contemplat.on; perhaps the phan
tasms of t aglc loves sigh out their
little d v beneath the ancient trees.
In Italy, in t recce, in Asia, in ' dis
tant Indian glens, dim temples stand
to this day, haunted or blest, perhaps
by the presen e of that mystic sp.rit
which outlasts all ages. And the
market-place has in familiar genius
also, the busy center of the crowded
city, the broad thoroughfare of the
great metropolis, silent for a few
hours under the summer moonlight
or the winter rain Old castles too,
deserted villages, uninhabited homes
of dead populations all have wraiths,
the ghosts of what they have been,
silent to the many, but more elo
quent to the few than any human
speech can ever be. Aud besidss all
these, there are spots where nature
has never been molded by man,
where she is sovereign and he is sub
jectlonely places by the sea, great
sunlit silences w he e man has not
diM-edaqivve'' hnaman antur ttwif
would give htm nothing, nor was he
able to take anything ltom her. And
the spirit of those places is more
lonely, and grander, and might er,
than the genius loci of the market
place, or of the deserted Italian villa,
where the red dog-star cracks the
spee: hless statues," or even of the
shady cloister or pf the wind-swept
temples of banished gods The song
of songs is still unwritten, though
nature's music make - man's grandest
symphonies rdiculotis, and sounds
night and morning in the ears ol him
who has ears to hear.
A Mysterious Lake.
Although it may not be generally
known outside of New York State,
or perhaps the Immediate lo alitv in
which It is situated, i.ake Cayuga is,
nevertheless, one of the wonders of
the l astern States. It is situated in
West Central New York, and is up
ward ot forty naile.s in length, with
an average breadth of but three
miles One of its peculiailties s
this Although upward of Mi) per
sons hae been drowned in Its waters
since the settlement of the adacent
territory, not a single corpse nasso tar
been recovered, and t is a common
saying that "Lake Cay ga never
gives up i s dead." Those who have
made an attempt to fathom this mys
tery say that the bottom of this re
markable sheet of water Is simply a
scries of large openings and crater
like cav ties, the entire lake bed hav
ing the appearance of being one huge
honcyco b, each of the well lUe
holes being reputed to be bottomless.
Ariulher mystery is its irregu ur
tides. Ttiere is no stated times for
their appearance, but when they do
come they a e very dec ded, the wa
ter often instantly receding fifty to
one hundred leetand as quickly re
turning with a roar that can be
heard fur miles.
In Holitnde.
Many well meaning people never
seem to realize that no matter how
deep an attachment may exist be
tween relatives or friends, there are
times when solitude is desirable. We
wonder that so many friendships are
broken; very olten it Is because each
sees too much of the other. The lit
t e time spent alone gives one an op
portunity lo think up the kindnesses
possible, the delights of a friend, and
then, too, it, is the time f r one to
take out one's soul and see what sort
of condition it is in. think over
whether one's tongue has been too
quick; think over the sins of omis
sion and commission; think over
every day life, and how It can 1
made to go easier One can never do
this when surrounded by others
Why don't the women organize
and strike? Most of them work all
their lives for their board and
clothes. '
I a man weighs more than 150 he
might as well be married;, be can t
It In a hammock with a summer
girt
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