Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-07-09
Who is Censurahle for the Lioentiousness
of the Times.

We fear much of the immortality of the
age can be traced to defective female educa-
tioE and example Upon parents or teach
crs or probably upon both. rests the fearful
responsibility Of the almost daily occurrcn-
Gems which so much scnndaizc society.
But while no doubt, the foundations, either
of taste, Judgment or morals, is furnished
in the schools and in the indulgcnccs OF
oycr-fond parents we cannot shut our eyes
to the fact that it is young woman herself
who, in nine cases out of ten, is really more
to blame than any misfortune or'unhnppi-
ness which may bolal her. Bishop Doamo.
in the very last address made Ny him to
his pupils, beautifully and forciLly presents
! corresponding views. He says: "''rhc times
are out of Joint Corruption stalks in high
places Liccntiousncss has well nigh lost
its shame. lutidclity is bold and brazcn-
faced. The wave of barburSm is rolling
back upon us For these things your own
sex ure greatly onswerablc. Women are
not true to themselves. They wink at vice.
They make a compromise with worldlinoss.
They tolerate irrcligion, and they are the
victims of their own unfuithfulness. The
stronger sex look in best things to the weak
cr. They have all hud mothers. They have
all had sisters. They own them in the sex
to which they owe them. And if women
were but true to God, true to their position,
from Him to hold tho world in check No
woman can fall but by her own consent As
at the first, the woman is the tcmpler. There
is no man that has not passed into brute, to
do rs tigers do, TINT resist the matchieSS ma
lcSty of II resolved woman. And stronger
| than all law-StrOngcr than anything but
/ God, where it is strong in His strength
would be the power of woman, to put down
rndcncSs and to lay the bride upon license.
But the ago is scf-indulgcnt and seEindul-
gcncc grows hy what it feeds on. Women
are occupied by fashion. Women are slaves
to dress. Women are willing to be flattcrcd.
! Women are careless of their compnnionship.
Women Urc unscrupulous in their nmusc-
mcnts. Young women set out for them
selves; they look upon their parents as old
, fashioned; they nrc impatient Of domestic
| restraints; they are avprSc to domestic oc
equations; they vote their home bore they
Congrcgate uwny from its contro they in
! dulgc III am caSumahlc hours: they meet the
other sex mo,c than half way they make
themselves debtors for their escort to pinccs
of resort; they permit the approaches of Ia
miliarity; they tempt the hidden devil OF
their nature; they forget their Bibles; they
forgot their rrayerbouks; they are women
/ Of fashion; they are women of tho world.
| What else they arc is rather shaped by up.
| portunity than by themselves. In THIS WAY
homl is stripped of its sanctity; in this way
! the female atmosphere loses freshness and
fragrance. The woman is no longer what
she was made to bc-a hclpmatc to man ;nnC
man ceases to be what God designed him
for her partner, her prop and her protector
/ The English language does not contain nj
essay of more power and truth than this
Let all concerned. and who is not? read
| ponder and seriously reject upon tie lesson
here So beautifully representatives. loI
I Duihl NlrH