The great guide of the world is fashion and it’s god is respectability–two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so! You ask, “Is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done.” Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common consent of fools.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Spurgeon On Being “Fashionable”
He preached these words on April 18, 1875 during a sermon on Joshua 24:15:
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