Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-24
SUNDAY SERVICES.
POINTS FROM THE ADDRESSES OF
PULPIT ORATORS
The Parity of Sexual Relations Treated by
Rev. MIR. Mitchell--Impurity He'll, Purity
Heaven--Talk TO the Railway Men by Mr..
II. ID. Ingersoll-- Elder ID. "A. Quick, of
Iowa, Discourses on the Bread Of Life.
Parity in SeINHk Relations,

II. ID. Ingersoll--Elder ID. a. Quick, of
Iowa, Discourses on the Bread Of Life.
Purity im Seruak Relations.
The Rev Edward G. Mitchell delivered an
instructive sermon at the New Jerusalem
church yesterday forenoon on the subject of
"Chastity, or Purity in Sexual Relations"
taking his text from Matthew, WIFI:
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall
see God.
The reverend speaker said that in pre-
viously considering the general sabiect of
chastity, the necessity was seen of personal
purity in thought, life and action. 1t had
also been shown that an impure heart fur
nished an abiding place to the
spirits of darkness and iniquity.
There were some beasts whose depraveu in
stlncts furnished welcome habltation for
tho indwelling Of the spirit of sin and dark
ness-a spirit like that which inhabited
Babylon of old, polluting with its foul pres
ence the fairness of the temple. In consid-
ering tho subject of chastity, it must be I'M
derstood that to look on a woman with lust,
was in itself the act of adultery.
The beginning of most prominent down
falls could be traced to some irregular rea-
son. Soloman, with all his abstract,
wisdom, intellectually, was led
away by bad women, and
it was universally conceded that any associa-
ton whatsoever with depraved women was
the beginning of ruin. Every young man
starting in life should lay down the rule
never to associate with any woman whom he
could not freely introduce to his own mother.
The love of display was the worst snare that
assaulted women.
There was a general disregard of the deep
er spiritual responsibilities. No woman
painted to deceive her own husband, but
rather to appear that which she not to
men of the world aud society. Solomon had
said that, "As jewel of gold in a
swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is
without discretion.'' The depravity of most
fallen women commenced with the cultiva-
ton of irregular thoughts concerning men.
A woman's heart should be the sanctuary for
the purest virtues. No matter how irregular
mans life had been, he always wanted to
marry virtuous woman, forgetful of the
fact that women, too, had most imperative
right-a necessity-to exact the same condi-
tons.
The principles governing the sexes were
too little observed in this respect 1t should
| be within the power of every women to make
her intended husband define his own posi-
| ton, as there was too much looseness in So
! ciety concerning matters that most vitality
| concerned the welfare of humanity.
| The prudish and false Indifference of So
| ciety in this respect, was one of the greatest
drawbacks to social and spiritual advance
ment encountered in the present century.
Men and women must learn that lesson,
! which teaches that true modesty and polite
| ness is the essence of wisdom, and that
spiritual politeness is the first principle of a
! correct life, for her laws are founded in
wisdom. Woman was always the greater
sufferer where society was most impure, and
when the true relation of the sexes is dis
turbed she is invariably the loser. 70 main
| tain purity and correctness of life among
men, it was necessary to have high NANTES
tations of purity among women.
| Every young man should be Taught that
impurity is hell, and that purity is heaven.
They should be taught that recititude in
youth is the only guarantee for happiness in
marriage. He could then have the felicity
of laying his past life open to the inspection
of his wife. Impurity among the sexes was
more widespread than ordinary people had
any idea of. Late statistics demonstrated
that the houses of bad repute in the great
| cities were largely tenated by young girls
who had left comfortable homes to enter
| upon voluntary life of degradation for the
| reason that with the wages of shame they
could best 6 atty depraved craving for
dress. 1t should be learned that the most
| Respondent exterior was no compensation for
the loss of inwaId virtue, and it frequently
| happened that the most wretched impurity
| was allied to the most alIuring and polished
| exterior.
Every child should be made acquainted
with the physical surroundings before reach
Ing the age Of man or Womanhood. If there
was any crime that should meet the punish
ment of death, it should be visited upon the
publishers and circulators of obscene books
and literature, which tended so largely to
| inf1ame and demoralize the minds of youth.
Children should be taught the laws of
sexual relation. There was point beyond
which none could go without falling. Many
a young girl who trusted to her natural i'm
| pulses had already sinned in her heart.
The common idea among men was thai
they were constituted to live by impulse,
| and that they were not to blame for their
| frequent lapse from the true estate of man.
hood. This general looseness and licentious-
| ness i'll society was smirchinp
with filth the most sacred relations of life.
1t had even reached the sanctury, aud bad
women took peculiar favor in conducting
their evil work in the churches. Such dia-
bolical blackmail should be hunted down
| and punished. The surest remedy against
this was individual purity. No man would
wilfully wrong the woman he truly loved
1t must be realized that impurity
was not only bad policy, but that it is a
sin against God.
1t was the beginnings of lust that must be
most zealously guarded against. The
thoughts and tendencies of the mind must
be watched, and if the heart and mind were
permeated with the love for business, it
would be impossible for the life to become
contaminated.
The speaker closed with an eloquent appeal
for personal rectltude, urging the necessity
for more thorough subsection of the gross
er impulses to the spiritual power of the
mind when directed by an upright motive
and a pure heart.