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“lhe Marriage Ring.” sila ** COSTUME AND! MORALS.”

| Brooxiyn, N. Y., February 14.—Rev.

T. De Witt Talmage. D D., preached to- day in the Brovklyn Tabernacle, the sixth of his series of sermons on ‘*The Marriage | Ring,” the subject heing ‘Costume an

| Morals.” The opening doxology was sung iwith an effect that cannot be imagined

except by those who have heard it in this ‘church, led on by organ and cornst pre jcentor. Dr, Talmage expounded a chapter ia Isaiah, descriptive of the social and com- |mercial splendor of the city of Tyre. The ; bymn sung was:

“Before Jehovah’s awful throne

Ye nations bow with sacred joy.”

The text was from Isaiah 3, 16, 18—23:

**Moreover the Lord said: Because the

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. with stretched-forth feet, in that will take away the bravery of itheic tinkling ornaments about their feet, ,and their cauls, and their round tires like ithe nrcon, the chains, and the bracelets, jand the mufflers, the bonnels, and the ornawents of the legs, end the headbands,

imaking a tinkling with their tT

Jo 7 1, } aay the Lord

and nose jewels, the changeable snits of appar l, and the ples, and the

and the fine ?

erisping pins, the glasses,

Yoilowing is the sermon in full : This is a Tyrian fashion plate. 2,500 years back and sets us down in an ancient city. streets. It is the height of the fashionable Scason. move with so much modesty that they do not aitract our attention, But here comes the haughty daughters of Jerusalem.

: r forward as to be unnatural—tecter- ing, wobbling, wri

As 2

ing text describes it,they “‘walk with-étretched- fort

their entire apparel, and now go through the streets, taking more of the pavement than they are entitled to, sweeping along with skirts that the text describes as ‘‘round tires like the moon,”. See! That is a prin- cess! Look! That is a Damascas sword- maker. Look! That is a Syrian merchant! The jiagling of the chains aud the lashing of the headbands and. the exhibitions of universal swagger, attract the attention of the propheb Isaiah, and he brings his Gamora to bear upon the ecane, and takes a picture for all the ages. But where is that seette? Vanished, streets} Vermia covered population pass through them. Where are the hands and the necks and the foreheads and the shoulders and the feet that sported all that magnificonc3? Ashes! Ashes!

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 m3ans allow us, be beantifuliy and gracefally appareled, is proved by the fact that God never made a wave but He gilded it with golden sun- beams, ora tree bat He garlanded it with blossoms, orasky but He studded it with stars, or allowed even the smoke of a fur- nace to ascend but He columnead and tur- reted and doled and scrolled it inte out- ines of indescribable gracefulness. When I see the apple-orchards of the spring and the pageantry of tha autumnal forests, | come to the conelusion that if Nature ever does join the church, while she may be a Quaker in the silence of her worship, she never will bea Quaker in the style of her dress. Why the notches of a forn leaf or the stamen of a water lily? Why, when the day departs, does it let the folding loors of Heaven stay opsn so long, when it night go in so quickly? One summer morning | saw an army of a million spears, adorned with a diamond of the r—I mean the grass with the dew When the prodigal came home, his father not only puta coat on his back but jewelry on his hand. Christ wore a beard Paul, the bachelor Apostle, not afflicted with any sentimentalitys admired the ar- rangement of a woman’s hair when he said in his epistle; ‘‘ [f a woman have long hair it is a glory unto her.” There wall be fashion in Heaven as on earth, but it will be a differoat kind of fashion. [+ will de- cide the color of the dress, and the popula- tion of that country, by a beautiful law, will wear white.

I say these things asa background to my sermon to show you that I have no prim, precise, pradish or cast-iron theories on the subject of human apparel; but the goddess of fashion has set up her throne in this country, and at the sound of the tim- brels we are all expected to fall down and worship. Her altars smoke with the sacri- fice of the bodies and souls of ten thousaad victims, In her temple four people stand in the organ loft, and from them there comes down a cold drizzle of music, freezing on the ears of her worshippers. This goddess of fashion has become a rival of the Lord of heaven and earth, and it is high time we unlimberei our batieries against this idolatry. count the victims of fashion I find as mapy masculine as feminine, Men make an easy tirade against woman as though she were the chief worshipper at this idolatrous shrine, and no doubt some men in the more conspicuous part of the pew have already cast glances. at the more retired part of the pew, their look a prophecy of a generous distribution. My sermon shall be as appropriate for one end of the pew as for the other.

Men are as much the idolators of feshion as women, but they cacrifice on a different part of the altar. With men the fashion goes to cigars and club-rooms and yachting parties and wine suppers. States the men chew up and

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tobacco every year. That is their fashion,|the revolution proposed to sell his coun‘ry In London notloag ago aman died who in order to get money to support his home istarted in life. with $750,000. But he ate| wardrobe? [declare here before God and ‘it all up in glattonies, sendiag his agents|this people that the effort to keep up ex- ‘to all parts of the earth for some rare deli | pensive establishments in this country is cacy for the palate, sometimes one plate of sending more business men to temporal

} litinec ane inal ar , a | “a: . . eth necks, waliting avd mincing « as they | or habilitate herself immediately. go.” They have inmost astounding style|high time that our good and sensible!each are not rare on Broadway. make vehement protest “against|estimated that ihere

arranged their bonnets and their yeils and | gomen fashionable indecency and, if the women} women in these two cities who have ex-

Where are those gay |

When L come to!

‘food costing him three or four hundred dollars. He ate up his whole fortune and ‘had only one guinea left. With that he bought a woodceck and had it dressed in |the very best style, ate it, gave two hours |for digestion, then walked out on West- minster Bridge and threw himself into the Thames and died, doing ona large scale what you and I have often seen done on a small scale.

But men do not abstain from millinery and elaborations of skirt through any superiority of simplicity. It is only because such appendages would be a blockade to business. What would sashes and ;trains three and a half yards long do to a stock market ? And yet men ate the disciples of ‘custom just as much as women. Some of

of clothes and never pay for them, and who go through the streets in great stripes of \color like animated checkerboards. I say these things because I want to show you that I am impartial in my discourse, and that both sexes in the language of the ‘Surrogate’s office ‘‘share and share alike.”

As God may help me [ am going to set forth the evil effects of improper dress of

'a simple truth that you alikuow, although

j}much of the womanly costume of our time

It puts US is the cause of the temporal and eternal

‘damnation of a multitude of men. There

‘test. The strife with many seems to be how

my ee fe a | 5 i ; a a Tho sensible men and women’ near they can come to the verge ofindecency|to death by his wife’s ribbons!

| without falling over, The tide of mascn-

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winter, went up to a so-called lady and be-

roli irting ” ‘ ; . riggling, flirting or, as my ‘cause of her sparss and incompetent ap-

|parel ordered her either to leave the house lt is

of the household’ do not realizes the de- plorable extremes of much of the female costume, that husbands implead their wives on this subject, and that fathers pro- hibit their daughters. The evil is terrific and overshadowing.

I suppose that the American stage ts responsible.for much of this. Ido not go tu theatres, so I must take the evidence of the actors and managers of theatres, such as Mr. John Gilbert. Mr. A. M. Palmer, and Mr, Daniel E. Bandman. They have recently told us that the crime of undress is blasting the theatre, which by many is considered a school vf morals, and indeed superior to the church, and a forerunner of the millenium, Mr, Palmer says: ** The bulkgof the performances on the stage are degrading and pernicious. The managers | Strive to come just as near the line as possi- ble without flagrantly breaking the law. There never have been costumes worn on a stage of this city, either in a theatre, ‘hall oc ‘ dive,” so improper as those that clothe some of the chorus in recent comic opera productions.’”’ He says in regard to the female performers: *‘ It is not a question whether they can sing but just how little they will consent to wear.” Mr. Band- mann, who has been 29 years on the stage, and betore almost all nationalities, saya : ‘*T unhesitatingly state that the taste of the present theatre-going people of America as a body is of a coarse and vulgar nature. The Hindoo would turn with disgust at such | exhibitions, which are sought after and ap- |plauded on the stage of this country. Our shop windows are full of, end the wails covered with, show cards and posters which should be a disgrace to an enlight- ened country, and an insult to the eye of a cultured community.” Mr, Gilbert says : ‘* Such exhibition is a disastrous one to the morals of the community. Are these pro- per pictures to pat out for the public to look at, to say nothing of the propriety of females appearing in public dressed like that? It is shameful !”

I must take the testimony of the friends of the theatre and the confirmation which | see on the board fences and in the show windows containing the pictures of the way actresses dress. 1 suppose that those re- presentations of play-house costumes are true, for if they are not true then those highly moral and religious theatres are swindling the public by inducing the people to the theatre by promises of spec- tacular nudity which they do not fulfil. Now all this familiarizes the public with such improprieties of costume and depresses the public conscience as to what is allow- able and right.

The parlor and drawing room are now running a race with the theatre and opera bouffe, They are

now nearly neck and neck in the race, the latter a little ahead, but the parlor and drawing-room are gaining .on the others and the probability is they will soon be even and pass the stand so nearly at the same time that one half of pandemonium will clap its hands because opera bouffe has | beaten and the other half because the drawing-room has beaten. Let printing press and platform and pulpit hurl red-hot anathema at the boldness of much of womanly attire. I charge Christian women neither by style of dress nor adjustment of apparel to become administrative of evil. Show me the fashion plates of any age between this and the time of Louis XVI, of Frances, and Henry VIII, of England, and I wilitell you the type of morals or immorals of that age or that year, No ex- | ception to it. Modest epparel means a lrighteous people. Immodest apparel | always means a contaminated and depraved | society.

It is not only such boldness that is to be

and ghastly. Do you know that Arnold of

}perdition than all other causes combined. 'It was this that sent prominent busincss | men to the watering of stocks, and-life in- surance presidents to perjured statements | about their assets and some of them to the | penitentiary, and has completely upset our | American finances. But why should I go jto these famous defaultings to show what men will do in order to keep up great home style and expensive wardrobes, when you }and ] kyow scores of men who are put to | their wit’s end and are lashed from January ito December. in the attempt? Our | Washington politicians may theorize }until the expiraiion of their terms of | office as te the best way of improving our wonetary condition in this country, It | will be of no use and things will be no beiter

‘danghters of Ziow are haughty and walk|them wear boots so tight that they can|until we learn to pui on oue heads and necks and wanton!haridy walk in the.paths of righteousness, | backs and feet and-hands no more than we eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and/and there are men who buy expensive svits |can pay for.

' There are clerks in stores and banks on limited salaries whe in the va'n attempt to keep the wardrobe of their family as showy as other folks’ wardrobe are dying of muffs and diamonds and camol’s hair shawls and high hata, aud they have nothing lofty ex-

‘cept what they. give to cigars and wine

‘suppers, and they die before their time,

‘and they will expect us ministers to preach

mantles, and the Wim-!an excessive discipleship of costume Lt is | about them as though they were the victims

i . ° of early piety; and after a high-class funeral

linen, and the hoods, and the} the pulpit has not yet uttered it, that| with silver handles at the side of their

| coffin of extraordinary brightness, it will be | found out that the undertaker is cheated 'eut of his legitimate expenses! Do not

mm tliat a i ° ‘ oa Tne procession of men and | js a shamelessness among many in what ig| send to me to preach the funeral sermon of women is moving up and down the gay | called high life that calls for vahement pro- | a man who dies like that.

1 blurt out the ' whole truth and tell that he was strangled | The

|country ia dressed to death. You are not

de line profligacy will never turn back until | surprised to find that the putting up of They | there ia a full sympathy with the officer of }ene public building in New York cost

5 | : | : i | |lean forward; they lean very much forward; | the law who at a levee in Philadelphia last | millions of dollars more than it ought to

| have,cost, when you find that the man who

pave out the contracts paid more than five '

thousand dollars for his daughter's wedding thousand dollars It is eight thousand

|dress. Cashmeres of a

pended on their porsenal array two thous- and dollars a year.

| What are the men to doin order to keep |up such home wardrobes! Steal—that is | the only respectable thing they can do! | During the last fifteen years there have | been innumerable fine business men ship- wrecked on the wardrobe, The temptation comes in this way: a man thinks more of | his family than ell the world ontside, and | if they spend the evening im describing to ihim the superior wardrobe of the family | across the street that they cannot bear the | sight of, the man is thrown on his gallantry j and his pride of family, and without trans- |lating his feelings into plain language he |goes into extortion end issuing of false ;stock and skilful penmanship in writing | somebody else’s name at the foot of a pro- jmissory note; and they all go down to- merce husband to the prison, the wife |to the sewing-machine, the children to be | taken care of by those who were calied poor | relations. Oh, for some new Shakspere to arise and write the tragedy of human clothes !

| Act the first of the tragedy :—A plain |but beantifnl home. Enter the newly imarried pair. Enter simplicity of manner land behavior, Enter as much happiness as 'is ever found in one home

' the second :—Discontent with the

| Act ci os humble home. Enter envy. Enter jeal-

ousy. Enter desire of display. Act the third :—Enlargement of ex- penses, Enter all the queenly cressmakers.

Enter the French milliners. Act the fourth ;—The tip-top of society. Enter princes and princesses of New York life. Kanter magnificent plate and equipage. | Enter everything splendid.

y I Act the fifth and last, winding up the

|scene :—Enter the assignee. Enter the isheriff. Enter the creditors. Enter hum-

liliation. Enter the wrath of God. Enter ithe contempt of society. Enter Death. | Now let the silk curtain drop on the stage. |The farce is ended and the lights are out.

Will you forgive me if 1 say in tersest | shape possible, that some of the men in | this country have to forge aud to perjure and to swindle to pay for their wives’ dresses? I willsay it whether you forgive {me or not.

Again : extravagant costume is the foo of all Christian alms-giving. Mer and women 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 gloves acroes the back by shutting vp his hand to hide the one cent he puts into the poor box! A Christian woman at the story of the Hot- tentots crying copious tears into a twenty- five dollar handkerchief and then giving a two-cent piece to the collection, thrusting it down under the bills so people will not know but it was a ten dollar gold piece. One hundred duliars for incense to fashion —two cents for God! God gives us ninety cents out of every dollar. The other ten cents, by command of his Bible, belong to him. Is not God liberal according to this tithing system iaid down in the Old Testa- ment—is not God liberal in giving us ninety cents out of a dollar when he takes but ten / We do not like that. Wewant to have ninety-nine cents for ourselves and one for God.

Now I would a great deal rather steal ten cents from you than God, I think one reason why @ great many people do not get along injworldly accumulation faster is because they do not observe this Divine {rule. God says; ‘“‘Well, if that man is !not satisiied with ninety cents out of a

dollar, then I will take the whole dollar and I will give it @® the man or woman who is"honest with me.” T

Ihe greatest

In the United! reprehended, but extravagance of costume. } obstacle to charity in the Christian church smoke ono! This latter is the cause of fraud unlimitable} to-day is the fact tiat men expend so much

on their table and women so much on their

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