Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-24
GLOBE MONDAY MORNING. MARCH a. 1873
SUNDAY SERVICES.

SUNDAY SERVICES.
POINTS FROM THE ADDRESSES or
PULPIT ORATORS.
The Parity Of Sexual Relations Treated by
Rev. Mr.. Mitchell--Impurity He'll, Purity
Heaven--Talk TO the Railway Men by Mr..
f. ID. Ingersoll--Elder ID. A. Quick, of
Iowa, Discourses on the Bread of Life.
Purity IN Sexual Relations.
The Rev. Edward @. 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, v-vn1:
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall
see God.
The reverend speaker said that in pre-
viously considering the general subject 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 depraved i'll
stincts furnished welcome habitation for
the indwelljng 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 the subject of chastity, it must be I'M
derstood that to look on 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
assailed women.
There was general disregard of the deep
or spiritual responsibilities. No woman
painted to deceive her own husband, but
rather to appear that which she was not to
men of the world aud society. Solomon had
said that, GAS jewel of gold in a
swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is
without discretion" Tho depravity of most
fallen women commenced with the cultiva-
ton of irregular thoughts concerning men.
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. It should
be within the power of every women to make
her intended husband define his own posi-
ton, as there was too much Iooseness in So
clety concerning matters that most vitality
concerned the welfare of humanity.
The prudish and false Indifference of So
clety IN this respect, WAS one Of the greatest
drawbacks to social and spiritual advance
ment encountered in the present century.
den 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 q
correct life, for her laws are founded in
wisdom. Woman was always tho greater
sufferer where society was most impure, and
when the true relation Of the sexes is dis
turbed she is invariably tho loser. 70 main
| tain purity and correctness of life among
| men, 1t was necessary to have high NANTES
| tat1ons Of purity among women.
Every young man should be Taught that
| lmpnrity is hell, and that purity is heaven.
They should be taught that rectitude 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 g'atify depraved craving for
dress. 1t should be- learned that tho most
| respondent exterior was no compensation for
| the los Of inwaId virtue, and it frequently
happened that the most wretched impurity
was allied to the most alluring 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
rnent Of death, it should be visited upon the
publishers and circulators of obscene books
and literature, which tended SO largely to
! inaame and de1noralize the minds of youth.
Children should he taught the laws of
sexual relation. There was point beyond
which none could go without falling. Many
young girl who trusted to her natural inn
pulses had already sinned in her heart
The common idea among men was that
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 Iicentious-
ness in society was smirching
with filth the most sacred relations of life.
1t had even reached the sanctury, and bad
women took a peculiar favor in conducting
their evil work in the churches. Such dia-
boical 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.
It must be realized that impurisv
was not only bad policy, but that it is q
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 pure heart.
Bread of Life.
The religious exercises at the rooms of the
Young Mems Christian association last even
ing were opened with song service and
scrlptural reading, following which prayer
was offered by Elder D. A. Quick. The Rev.
G. II. Pierce, from Iowa, delivered a short
address on the Subject of the "Bread of
Llfe,'' basing his remarks on Matthew "
chapter, 4 verse:
But he answered and said, it is written. man
snail not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God
The speaker first adverted to the prepara-
ton made by Christ for the great work of
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