The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-06-19


and business life say 10 every
Young man, ut 10 not honor yop want:
10 is not integrity or character Won !
want. but il ismoney. 4
There Is peril beyond this kind oi in'
peril to every legitimate busl-
ness enterprise; peril 10 moral Princi-
Piles, which makes every man willing
to give an equivalent for that which he
receives. Our youth need 10 know of ]
this peril and be guarded agninst it,
No man can afford TO sacrifice personal
honor and integrity, and to eompro-
mise the welfare Of our whole national |
life, by not having an honest business
and pursuing it. faithfully adhering to |
correct moral principles. And 10 Ia
necessary 10 remember that ID is ele- |
mentary principles which form our
characters; and so here am consider
ing the beginning OF things Ii Ii not
necessary to study effects unless We also
study the causes, and so desire 10 get
back To tho very foundations Ito the
beginning of evil in habits aud life.
But I notice again. some OF the
perils in
ocR SOCIAL LIFE.
= They are many, md time will only
permit me to. glance at them. But
prominently among them is found the
relations which society enforces be-
tween our boys aud girls. our yonng
men and young women. And that re-
iation il a separation OF the sexes IN
home aunusements, in all true social
duties and enioymcnts, and in school
life. think the tendency i'm enlight-
ened circles, somewhat. today is toward
the true position. God, in creation and
in providence, has intended the sexes
10 become mutually helped. He has
put boys and girls both into almost
every well ordered family; into every
family where his laws are consulted,
aud his mandates obeyed. And He In
tends such shall be the arrangement
always. And we always make mistakes
when We attempt TO interfere with Gods
plans. No young man, and no yonng
woman can have true idea OF the OPP
posite sex, who has not grown mp IN
daily life side by side with the other,
whose education has not been IN the
same home circle and in the same
school room. The influence OF mind
npon mind of boys aud girls ~ stimn.
iatiye in o healthful direction, aud
tends To subdne every unnatural de-
yelopment The influence OF character
and disposition is healthful only IN
this same association. This continued
studied separation OF our boys and
girls in all their early life In q relic of
barbarism, and OF purient sentimental
~, born in rude age and cherished in
q degraded one. Separate agirl from
association with boys. as play-fellows
and schooismates, untifshe arrivesstthe
age when the nature God gave her in
creation begins To ask for sympathy.
protection and love, from him whom
God intended for that position, and
you have begotten within her mind a
sentiment utterly false to every true
| idea in womanhood OF manhood. Sep
arate a boy in like manner and every
conception he has formed in his mind
OF womans nature, character and posi-
tion, is false. IL there were no other
reasons, these are enough, in the very
nature Of things, 10 bid every father
and mother 10 refuse To send son OF
daughter to any catholic school IN the
land, even il there we're no other
schools. And the same is true of toe
many of our protestant schools. They
are institutions for the fostering Of IN
unnatural sentimentality, and senti'
mentality is always base. There may
be q short period where especial prepa
ration is needed for some profession
when Young men and young womef
may be separated, bnt not then neces
sarily.
Would you save your sons, as the,
become Young men, from dens OF ia
fanny, from the saloons aud the gamb
ling hells, from association with tn
! vile and impure. Would you saw
yonr daughters from lives OF sorros
and suffering. from heart aches, AM
soul agony, from misery in The dls
{ charge Of the duties laid upon them H.
3 nature. If you would do this. the
honor Gods laws 10y cuitivating a -yIu
pathetic, helpful. constant association
between the sexes from the hour whel
a. babes they rest on the same mother
; knee; in alt social life, bsme life An
!, sciIooi: aud then when standing at th
altar TO consunlsts that uuion upo
7. which God has placed the seal of NJ
; proval. they will step into life honore
!, aud honorable. lint tprn your hr
!. ont into the street IN learn from Oh
:. vile his earliest lessons. instead q
a turning him into the parlor; teach hi
!. sister to think boys are o bother ~ sr
= rate about the house. aud thHt h'
|. place II ut home and his not st bom
Let them grow mp TINS under the'
- different Influences; he falsely hlrde
e.i, Instead oi being made manly a.
noble: she falsely sentimenality, !
= stead of adorned with womans riche
"a grace, woman's conscious inteBni
: all association during this period
\, growth aud developemeD,. rrstraine
~ unnatural, finding its chief field OF
80 yentare in the paTloT, ont from nnsl
: parents ere, or in the ball room. rob'
n In party cos.nme unaer the infint "a
- OF music aud lights, IN an embrace al
- physical contact that would make 4
~ mon blush for shame. IL he were less
~ tLan a devil damned; let this he the e
,w tnre Of our youth. aud what power
AR ask you on earth or ia heaven its
hs can III them 10 take their proper pia,
II in life. aud serve aud honor each otl
ha as God intended they shoold. Th'
ne is no power. God does not work mi
,5 elcs except al yrsce ia, the soul. 2
!, natures laws OF mind and BODY thwa
II eA, overturned, or ignored will as
mr. themselves.
IL. And | argue again that this const
ife fellowship of our yohth is the a.
pg. I means of count.racting another pow
DE- ful peril before them. IL proper
wa Iowship II secured lJetween the Sc
at hoine aud IN society then Won
,au not fDd our nirls feeding their niI
pnt and souls npon the corrupt and {
rht rupting fiction of to-day burning
sel. life aud moral principal before such
'pw tar Rrs;nor VIII yon hntl our boys !
NAL cut of from home learning Woe
,r,. the street corners, from the low.
we vulgar aud the debased. When I'll
ore relations are properly establishd,
nse the home circle Is male ehat u GU
du- to be, aud society is ordered on
Tie same principles, then you will not
po- that the publishers Uf tue New \
aer. Ledger aud Mrs. WoodwoIths No
pee are making mote money than the
the nomlnstisDai publishing houses oi
4 10 land. Pure tivtioD is valuable ell
me n tiousl ibnaeDce. But the press of
vs.. land does not furnish pure. iic
is ss largely as other ki
him Our news depots arc not crowded
ner. this class VI literature. But 60
and ANY news depot aud no,e the >
an. from the New York Ledger IL
.up. Il Jwu. past The Police Gazette &C,
til YOU come In the Eve aud ten
.xalt e.i,uvns of carrept stories, aud
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