Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-06-17

to do with it." Is it so: Are there IL
be no more victims ? Are respectable
homes safe from harm? Is there swami
of moral perdition whose presidential mi.
asma Is now in the common air We
must have a quarantine for pestilence,
and II 1t come too near us, we break
, down walls and burn buildings TO drive it
from us; and if the meanneSs of another
state refuse Es a sand bank, we talk oi
building on the sea 10 keep it far of
But here is a moral pestilence that sails
in the purple of Tyre adown Broadway.
that sets its snares and pitfallsar our very
ieet, that oozes with its damnation thrO'
brick walls, from the Five Points To the
Fifth Avenus-but this we must not even
speak about: we must let it all alone
Are you safe in your reSpecii-
bility? Oh, father, are no more sons to
be tempted? Are you safe in your own
honor? Oh, mother, is there never more
to be a broken hearted mother! Are
you safe, citizen, from the taxation of
poverty and crime ? These kennels and
shambles where robbers and incendiaries
prowl; the temples of devil worship are
all around you; will you put your hands
upon your hearts and walk about the halls
of Eblis in mysterious silepce? No
bring forth the shame, like the guilty
woman in the text; let it be accused and
marked. and let the full light of Christs
truth and Christ's purity stream in upon
it.
In the passage connected with the text
we are told Christ said to the woman's
accusers: He that is without sin among
you, let him cast the first stone - but,
smitten by conscience, they went out one
by one. And who is not in some way al
lied to this great crime? The fact of
common weakness should at least make
US merciful. 1t is not just that upon the
woman alone should fall the blot of
shame. The text is a great lesson of
charity and mercy, and it is also a great
lesson of Justice. There is neither Just
ice, honor nor delicacy in pur modern
custom, which scarcely frowns upon the
guilty man, while pouring out upon the |
guilty woman all the vials of wrath
The refined woman recoils with virtuous |
scorn from her fallen sister but often well |
comes with bright homage him by whom |
she fell. The mantle of Christion chari- |
ty covers everybody, though perhaps we
ought to allow little for natural shrink
age, and if there be any whom will not
cover, any who desire to be left outside
of its folds, it is the man who trades in
affections, drags her down to ru-
in, then leaves her to suffer and die, and
goes on smilingly and boastingly TO new
The only use of such men is
to make us believe in devil, or rather
that no particular devil is necessary.
1t may or may not be true, as some in
sist, that this foul cancer can never be
AfaafaA. I,,f, II | ,
sist upon it that the shame shall be equal
" divided, that the SHINING man shall be
branded as deeply as the SHINING woman.
Suppose every guilty man bore the mark
'f shame in his face, in Broadway, in the !
market or at church, how long would the !
.vil continue? But the meanness of man
has thrust the whole shame upon woman (
In some respects communities may 8
tand like individuals in relation TO this .
vii. The position of our own city of {
lew York is not unlike that of the wom- {
n in the text before US, in that respect. $
iuilty it is unquestionably, and certainly 9
most vehemently accused. And who are s
he accusers? They are mainly those
Tho share its guilt. They are men from
ther communities who sojourn here for '
ime, swell the current of its abomina-
ion, add TO the food of its shame, then go
ack to the pure and peaceful country, TO
Din in chorus of horror and Indignation 4
the exceeding sinfulness of New York /,
lew York is bad enough, but not so dark
S 1t has been painted-bad enough, but !
1t the community without sin. without
in the sin of New York q
rst cast the stone. They went out. be- o
inning at the eldest, even to the last. ;
eing convicted by their own conscien- e
as."
Mr.. Chaplin next spoke of the various !,
lasses of protligates. He knew of moth
lg so horrible and awful to contemplate l.
) protigate old mana sinner without y
ven an excuse. The father of family, T.
erhaps the principles of his sons are un- 4
ermined by his baseness, and the very
r his daughters breathe is tainted For o.
lie young man who is about yielding to
lie tempter there should be raised the =
olce of warning. The best and purest rT
light bear indirect relations to this "
lameful life; they might be implicated n
trough neglect and Indifference ;f
In the great house of the abandoned -
ere hundreds and thousands who strug-
ed to the last. and yielded TO tempta- =.
on only through positive and impera- IN
We want. In London probably one a,
urth resorted to the streets only to eke 81
1t living. In this city, one broken n
earted creature yielded to the tempter =,
lly to save dying and crippled sister >
ON being turned into the streets to q
arve. But another heart was broken -
: the shameful self-sacrifce the sick
Id crippled sister only lived a few weeks. II
le survivor said: ''I do not like this life: I,
would do almost anything to get out of \
but now, having once done wrong, |
mot get any work" And this is the -
ii to be covered up with the smooth It's
e paper of decency and dehcacy. 1t is On
delicate to talk about it, Is it indeli- en-
te to starVe and die? ."
We are connected with this matter by on
r opinions as to woman's sphere of en- 90
oyment. Better wages are demanded
: women. Many sewing women have or
It one or two dollars a week, to keep
death and the devil with. One poor 81.
imam made caps at two cents a piece
ould her munifcent employer be will 70
g to show himself? He would proba- ~
7 need all the caps the poor woman ev-
made to hide his humble sense of mer- al
Many honorable and pure women of
We TO do with this matter. When they
ess themselves in garments cneaply pur- oH
ased, they may have dressed up soul J;'
: the sacrifice, or sewed up thread in tL
hroud. Could the veil be lifted, would -, w.
ey not see on their gay white dresses Sa,
ange dark spots and crimson patterns ~
1t they knew not of-spots of inextin-
ishable red that all the sea cannot
sh away? Mingled in the wreath of
wers on their fair heads, would they
see the grass that grows on graves tol
There is another point in the text wor- eos
7 of attention in closing-the idea of sto
rdon: This opens the question of rem tbi
y and prevention. The first idea is to nh
rid of the sin. How is it to be RENE fr-
ID is question which the wisest can orI
answer. Some maintai4 that it can Ar