LADIES’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 331, 8 December 1875, Page 2

LADIES’ EXPRESS.

[The Editor will be glad to give insertion t« any local contributions from his lady friends that may be considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex generally. DRESS IN°' CHURCH. Apparently the ladies who listen to the seritons b£ the. Itov. ’ Mr. Talmage a

popular preacher of New York, have not learnt that, black is a most fashionable color for church wear, for he declares that: “ There seems to be, in the churches a great strife waging. It is an Austerlitz of ribbons. The carnage of color is seen all over our religious assemblages. Along on the outskirts of the Sabbath audiences, you see here and there a picket of fashion, but down in the middle of the church are the solid columns blazing away all through the service. Five hundred ‘ broken and contrite hearts,’ covered up in rainbows and spangles. Followers of the ‘ meek and lowly Nazarene,’ all a_ ji n gl e and a-flash.” Furthermore he says : “We w ant a great ecclesiastical reformation in this matter of Sabbath accoutrement. Shoo these religious peacocks out of the house of God. By your example, make subdued and modest costume wore popular than gaudy apparel. Do not put so much dry goods on your back that you cannot climb into glory. You cannot sail into the harbor of heaven with such a rigging as that. They would level their guns at you as being a blockade runner. Coming up to the celestial door the gatekeeper would cry, ‘ Halt 1 you caunot go in with such regimentals.’ And as you answered, ‘ I got those jewels from Tiffany, and that dress from Arnold and Constable, and those shoes from Burt’s . the; gatekeeper would say to one of ths attendants, ‘ Take this soul down to one of the outhouses, and tear off those puffs and ruflles and knife-plaitings and Hamburg embroideries, and put on her more appropriate Sunday attire; for, going in as she now is, all heaven would burst out alaughing!’ ’’