The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-04-28

Sne peeps and she listens, she watches and waits,
Nor Satan himself is more active than she, ~ u
TO expose in poor sinners the faults and bad traits
Which she fears that the Lord might not happen
., Ito see"
II guess I've right to talk God didn't make
me dumb!' No, he did not make you dumb
but were ii not for questioning his wise purpos-
es we would say that He might better have done
80. He did not make you dumb, but when He
gave you the power of which you boast, He did
not give you the right of using that power in
staining the purity of another character, in ex-
posing his slightest fault and making it as much
greater as possible, in crushing the weak and
dsfencelsss, in parting friends, in bringing sor>
row and pain to hearts already overbui dened, in
fact, in trying to send the whole world. save
yosr own most perfect self, to everlasting per-
dition 'ii'-' @i'" ''''
You are a curse upon the earth, d vile traitor
to your sex g}o.EiZ9 IGI5
4We can easily imagine what calculations of as
constituent and condemnation would greet our
ears, were we to tell you that poor young girl
without father and without mother, without even
brothers. arm to defend her, dependent entire
ly upon her own exertions, having her way in
the world to marx out alone, had been rob bed of
her clothing, and the little money she had laid
by for time of more bitter need should such a
time come ..-i :..aa
"The wretch who W ouId do such thing ought
to be Killed ~ we are sure would be the most
softened expression you would make Bat we
remember, when once young girls Game was
mentioned in your presence, how you looked
| this way, and winked that way, and turned your
nose another way, and spit out something that
was worse, ten thousand times worse than rob-
bling her of all her clothes and ell her money.
You said something, that if circulated aad be-
lieved, would, in the eyes of the world, rob her
of her virtue. You said what you did not knotc !
You said it, because the vileness of your heart
would not let you leave it unsaid. God have
mercy upon you, for you need His mercy !
God pity you, for you need His pity I'm -r..et +.
When You overtake poor unfortunate who
| has wandered from the narrow way, which you
fatter yourself, was never lett by you. If your
actions speak your thoughts, your medtations
are something like these :-"Well, poor fellow
you've started down bill, and l don't believe
you'd ever tarn around and come back again
If / leave you here, it may be some time before
down easier, if just give you knock, and help
you along - You give him the knock and
down he goes, to where the love Of God alone
can reach him, and you look around so innocent>
Iy, and wonder how he got there.
Poor, ignorant. sinful, deluded creature, do
look 81 yourself, and see where you are, and
what you are doing. l;.a /.
Think Of the lives You have made dessolate
the hopes you have blasted. tho hearts you have
broken, by your low insinuatons, your thoughts
less revengefu talk Think. if God has giy-
en- you children that your sins may yet be visits
ed upon them-tbat, perhaps. by some evil-mind-
ed person like yourself the world may be made
az rugged as thorny, and hopeless, for them
as you hay made it for others
Thiuk Of this, and if every spark of humanity
in you has not been extinguished you will plead
with God for His forgiveness, and turn from
your wicked ways ere it is forever too late. d
CLARITY.