. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . corridors,the same compliments they sim-pered twenty years ago. A NewYork lawyer last summer at UnitedStates Hotel, Saratoga, within ourhearing, rushed across a room tosay to a sensible woman, You areas sweet as peaches! fashion are myriad. Fashionnot only destroys the body, but itmakes idiotic the intellect. Yet, my friends, I have givenyou only the milder phase of thisevil. It shuts a great multitudeout of heaven. The first peal ofthunder that shook Sinai declared:Thou shalt have no ot
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . corridors,the same compliments they sim-pered twenty years ago. A NewYork lawyer last summer at UnitedStates Hotel, Saratoga, within ourhearing, rushed across a room tosay to a sensible woman, You areas sweet as peaches! fashion are myriad. Fashionnot only destroys the body, but itmakes idiotic the intellect. Yet, my friends, I have givenyou only the milder phase of thisevil. It shuts a great multitudeout of heaven. The first peal ofthunder that shook Sinai declared:Thou shalt have no other God be-fore me, and you will have tochoose between the goddess offashion and the Christian are a great many seats in heaven, and they are alleasy seats, but not one seat for the devotee of is for meek and quiet spirits. Heaven is for thosewho think more of their souls than of their bodies. Heavenis for those who have more joy in Christian charity than indry-goods religion. Why, if you with your idolatry offashion should somehow get into heaven, you would be for. THE SIMPERING MAN. 258 fashions follies. putting a French roof on the house of many mansions,and making plaits and Hamburg embroidery and flounces inthe robes, and you would be for introducing the patterns ofButtericks Quarterly Delineator. Give up this idolatry offashion, or give up heaven. What would you do standingbeside the Countess of Huntington, whose joy it was to buildchapels for the poor, or with that Christian woman of Boston,who fed fifteen hundred children of the street at FaneuilHall on New Years Day, giving out as a sort of doxology atthe end of the meeting a pair of shoes to each one of them;or those Dorcases of modern society who have consecratedtheir needles to the Lord, and who will get eternal reward forevery stitch they take. 0! men and women, give up theidolatry of fashion. The rivalries and the competitions ofsuch a life are a stupendous wretchedness. You will alwaysfin
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