. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . there-fore, may have the great varieties and luxuries of dress with-out impediment. Men would wear as much, if they knewhow without interfering with their wordly occupations. Therough jostling of life is inimical to a mans dragging a dress-trail two yards in length, or pending from his ear a diamondcluster. In the old time, as well as in all ages of the world,the two sexes were alike in moralities or immoralities. Whilein parlor sentimentalities it is well that men defer to women,and women defer to
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . there-fore, may have the great varieties and luxuries of dress with-out impediment. Men would wear as much, if they knewhow without interfering with their wordly occupations. Therough jostling of life is inimical to a mans dragging a dress-trail two yards in length, or pending from his ear a diamondcluster. In the old time, as well as in all ages of the world,the two sexes were alike in moralities or immoralities. Whilein parlor sentimentalities it is well that men defer to women,and women defer to men, in the presence of God, and in thelight of eternal responsibilities, the sexes are equal. Isaiah takes us twenty-five hundred years back, and setsus down in an ancient city. It is a bright day, and theladies are all out. The procession of men and women is mov-ing up and down the gay streets. It is the height of thefashionable season. The sensible people move with so muchmodesty that they do not attract our attention. But herecome tbe haughty daughters of Jerusalem. They lean for- (260). •IT IS THE SOUL SHININC THROUGH THE FACE. EXTRAVAGANCE OF MODERN SOCIETY. 261 ward; they lean very much forward; so far forward as to be
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