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CoMrEr1NE, April Ia, 1873.
Ed. CouRIER:-
l do not wonder the question, "is
there a hell Z" is go often asked. If
there ever was one, it surely must be
untenanted and the rooms to let, for
Satan and all his emissaries must have
taken up their abode upon earth. If
crime and wickedness increase o. fast
In the next decade as they have with
in the last, we shall have . pandemo-
mum established upon earth, and we
shall be compelled to light q torch at
midday to search for virtuous per.
son. Every newspaper is filled with
disgusting accounts of crime and dew
iltry. But we need not 60 to the pa
pers for such details. Every little
hamlet, it would seem, is striving to
excel Red Oak in iniquity. believe
q bad woman is worse than Q bad
man, and can do more harm. especial.
ly if she is educated and agreeable.
She can appear like an angel of light
when her heart is the home of all evil
passions, and she Is plotting the de.
struction of those she knows to be
pure and good. By her insinuationt
and ISLANDERS she can destroy the
peace of the domestic circle and the
whole neighborhood. Oh! mothers
fearful responsibility rests on you
You should know where your daugh.
tiers. yes and sons too, spend theil
leisure moments, and who are theiI
associates, for there are none, howev.
er low and base, but have an influ
ence on those with whom they asso
ciate. What America most needs il
these days, is good mothers. If ev
cry mother would see that her owl
fireside is kept free from pollution
then all would be pure, and Their,
would be no more wolves in sheepl
clothing going about seeking whom
they may devour." Keep your sons
as well as your daughters, from con
tanAination, by mingling with wicket
and abandoned persons, for thei
ways "take hold on hell, going dowr
to the chambers of DEATH" Thinl
you these are small defects of charac
ter? 1t is "the little foxes that spoi
the vines"
"Can one handle pitch and not b.
detiled 7" or "can one 90 upon no
Goals and his feet not be burned 2
The trail of the serpent is visibl
| wherever he goes, and the slime /
left on all that comes in contact witt
i it. Guard well the morals of you
daughters, you cannot be too careful
in the selection of their associates
Evil communications corrupt goo,
manners you know. If mothers loo
down on and ridicule all rcfinemen
and modesty and allow their daugh
ters to associate with the lowest sour
of creation, they need not expect ther
to become pure and virtuous women
whose price the good book tells III
"is far above rubies." Am l aske
what remedy ! would suggest? lar
swer, q crusade should be cotton u
for the benefit of all who are not a
ready sunk SO low they cannot b
saved. Surely we need a reform i
' this as much as in temperance, an
r here no man must lead. She shout
/, get up moral reform club and ostrs
CHE from society all who Glove an
make lie" all slanderers and impul
h persons, and debauchee's of bot
sexes. Am / told that would includ
the whole. Very we'll, then I woul
say have no society. Better non
u than such. But I can't believe tn,
all are impure; there must be som
y virtuous persons yet amongst us, ell
: we should expect to share the fate ,
Sodom and Gomorrah. Besides "
!. have plenty of good books to whic
we can resort, and any ono wit
brains can find society in those.
!, there is nothing else at hand read Il
. Book Of Proverbs through ever
4 month, just one chapter day, and
y the instructions there given are hee'
y cd we shall be made better.
al SCAJDEJ