Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-24
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-SO~SS~e~A@S
Rev. MIR. Mitchell--Impurity He'll, Purity
Heaven--Talk to the Railway Men by Mr..
II. d. IngersoIl--Elder d. "A. Quick, of
Iowa, Discourses on the Bread of Life.
Purity in Se.cual 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, v-v1n:
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 iniuuity.
There were some beasts whose depraveu in
stincts furnished a welcome habitation for
the 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 the subject of chastity, it must be un-
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
swine's snout, so is 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-
tions.
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 looseness in So
ciety 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.
| 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. 10 main
tain purity and correctness of life among
men, it was necessary to have big III manifes-
! 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
| 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 gatify 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 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
| ment of death, it should be visited upon the
publishers and circulators of obscene books
| and literature, which tended 80 largely to
int1ame and demoralize 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 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 III society was smirching
with filth the most sacred relations of life.
| 1t had even reached the sanctury, and 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.
no hal
was not only bad policy, but that it is O
sin against God.
1t was the beginnings of lust that must be
most zeaIously 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 thoroug h subsection of the gross
er impulses to the spiritual power of the
mind when directed by upright motive
and pure heart.
Bread Of Life.
The religious exercises at the rooms of the
Young Mems Christian association last even
ing we're opened with song service and
scriptural reading, following which PRAYER
was offered by Elder D. A. Quick. The Rev.
G. b. Pierce, from Iowa, delivered a short
address on the subject of the "Bread of
Llfe,' basing his remarks on Matthew ~
| chapter, verse:
But he answered and said, it is written. man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out Of the mouth of God.
The speaker first adverted to the prenara-
ton made by Christ for the great work of
revolutionizing the world. He came irto
the world for the purpose of working the
greatest revolution the world had ever known.
Christ's interview with satan was
alluded to example for Christians to
resist the tempter. The king of evil had an
| preached the Savior of mankind throu9h
the material senses, demanding that Christ
should turn the stone into bread. The text
embodied two great characteristics, viz: The
natural and the spiritual life Christ ex-
horted his disciples to take no thought for
this life, assuring them that they must seek
first the kingdom of God and all things
should be added unto them. The Chris
tlan's thoughts should be directed to the
spiritual life, and its food should be the
word of God. Christians were liable to he