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Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming out of heaven froni God 

 adorned as a bride for her husband." That is the biggest hour 

 that a girl knows, when she adorns herself for her husband. 

 When she dresses herself for the great sacrifice of her life and 

 assumes the responsibility of his honor and the responsibility of 

 his progeny and the responsibility of the ideals of a home. Why, 

 there is not anything too good for her just at that moment. 

 The fathers are willing to make the sacrifices, and the mothers 

 spend days or weeks preparing the apparel of the girl for that 

 supreme event, and the latest fashion is the pattern according 

 to which everything must be made. I am saying this with 

 reference to the country girl, because oftentimes she gets dis- 

 satisfied when she goes into town and sees things. Dress her 

 well, men, for she is your daughter. She is the hope of the 

 purity and the religion and the social life of your community. 

 Let her grow and be awakened for further growth. 



There is a second thing I want to say with reference to the 

 farmer's daughter, and that is on the subject of amusement. 

 Now, amusements ought not be recommended very much by a 

 preacher in the ordinary view of things, but I am going to tell 

 you that we are organized for amusement. We must have it; we 

 will have it, and if we cannot get it in refined and tasteful forms 

 we will get it somehow or other. Bound to come. We must 

 have it. God has made us that way. I was interested in read- 

 ing the old Prophet when he was describing the future glories of 

 the church and he used this language: "The street of the city 

 shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." 

 Playing boys and girls is the prophet's ideal of future glory. 

 You have got to provide for it, you must provide for it, men; 

 you must let it get into the program of country life. Not mere 

 coarse forms of amusement, but things that will really be edi- 

 fying and helpful and stimulating at the same time that they 

 amuse. I am mighty thankful for the machinery that repro- 

 duces music. Those Victrolas have been a wonderful help to 

 humanity. Last summer one Saturday night the moon was full 

 and I said to a bunch of men in a hotel in Jerusalem: "Let's 

 go up to the Mount of Olives tonight," and they said "all right." 

 And we footed it up over the rocky way to the top of the Mount 

 of Olives and when we got there what do you think we heard? 

 We heard a little, old, wheezy phonograph picking out an 

 Arabic song — it must have cost two dollars and a half or some- 

 thing like that. But those Arabs were lying around there on 



