The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-01-07

cal working of this theory makes each
sex but the prey to the either. This will
always be till the standard of virtue ia
woman is made also the standard of yir-
tue in man. II was a great and pure
man who uttered these words: '.T'be
" orla will never be better till men sub
jeet themselves to the same laws which
they impose upon women 1t WAS
man said this. Were il woman, all
the apostles of licence would At once de-
clare that she said il because, being a
woman, she could not know what man
is. do not forget what human nature
is, il its universal and uBchanging es-
sence. do not forget in its best estate
how frail it is, how eaAily overcome
nor forget the inevitable notifications
of life and character resulting from the
varying laws of temperament, OF sex,
of physical and mental organization.
But neither the history of polygany or
of monogamy, Campbell's philosophy
European Morals or the history of the
whole life of man in every race, and
through every age from the beginning
of the world till now, can make me be-
lieVe that man created In the image of
God, man immortal as his Sire, man the
head of all human intelligence, through
all his earthly life. is a. best but a little
more than a bundle of blind instincts
and Of iawless appetites, at whose mer-
cy he is, while he is as powerless to con-
troll as the beast at his feet. This bru-
tai idea is the underlying impulse of p0-
.lygamy, of all the righteousness, license
and barbarism on the earth. The sister
is taught, whatever her temptation may
be, that she must be good the brother
is left to believe that, however he tries,
he cannot help being bad. 1t is expect
ed of him that he will grow to be a re-
spectacle man some day but before that
event, through the law of his nature, he
must necessarily be very wicked. The
sister is taught that she must preserve
herself blameless for the future husband
to whose life she is to be the crown ; the
brother is left to spend the same time
sowing his wild oats" To his wife he
is to bring no virginity of heart, no pu-
rity of person, no record of q stainless
past! Many a man looks into the eyes
of the wife, who trusts him as she does
her God into the faces of his daughters,
who believe him to be scarcely lower
than the angels, with secret remorse
which cannot be measured, as memory
forces in upon his thought W hat he has
been, perhaps what he is. With what
shame he is conscious that, if they knew
his secret history, he would stand trans
main what he is in their thoughts. he
must hide forever from their knowl-
edge the crimes of his youth. Young
man, remember this The dearest re-
ward that can come to you in this world
is a real home-the love and faith and
help of wife and children. Remember
this, while striving with foes without
and foes within. II you aciU you Gun
live worthy of your heritage. You can
can cultivate personal friendship with
noble men and women; you can fill
your lite with honorable occupation and
cheerful recreation; you can ''steep your
soul i'll one pure love" and, trusting III
God, YOU will never be fallen mau.
The grandest object this side the throne
of God is a perfect mani man power
al i'll brain, powerful III frame. with con-
science and will ruling over the animal
Greenwich makes The puIssant bash OF
his manhood. The saddest sight on
earth is such man in ruin. By the
hight OF what lie might have been do
we measure and deplore the fall which
makes him what he is. Passion may be
grand but it is passion in obedience.
Appetite Is not ignoble till it debaseS
the soul and trium:Ihs over purity.
With our finest theories we cannot
make this crooked world straight. But
each one may make it SO much The bet
ter and brighter by at least the charac-
ter of one individual. When shall we
have purity in our lives? When peace
in our hearts? When joy in our homes ?
1t will be when woman feels a deeper
responsibility for her personal power
over every man who comes within her
influence when that power is tested and
controlled by healthy conscience and
a pure heart it will be when she ceases
TO regard every man that she meets as
the legitimate prey to her vanity, as a
tyrant to be turned into slave, as
Sampson to be shorn of his strength.
1t will be when with true recognition
and reverence she meets the royalty of
manhood with the royalty of woman
hood, saying 'If thou art the worlds
king, am the worlds queen !" 1t will
be when man tests all relations with
woman by the same code of impartial
honor which makes him honorable
among men,. 1t will be when he who
scorns to be false to his comrade will
scorn equally to be false to womaSa;;
when he shall cease to stoop to subter-
fuge, to deceit, to falsehood,- to keep
peace with numbers of women, to each
of whom he is personally committed, |
over ali of whom he desires to exer-
else a secret, ilegitimote power. 1T
will be when each man seeks in each
woman soothing of that divine quality
of womanhood which even the basest
man desires 10 find in his mother, in his
sister in his wife. 1t will be when each
shall cease to say 81 will absorb, rule
over, posses this creature of God" 1t
will be when each shall seek in the 9TH
er their noblest friend, their truest and
dearest companion; when the woman
shall revere the man as man because he
is worthy of such honor, and the man
revere the woman as woman because
she commands his reverence before she
wins his love. Then we shall not have
the cause that we now have TO weep
over the fallen woman, and to bow our
heads in shame before the fallen man.