Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-27
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o'clock, a. M; Sunday services 8 and 10.
O'Clock, q. M, AID % O'Clock, p. NJ, Rev. j
j. Lilly officiating.
Elder Blackwell has been conducting s
protrscted meeting at the Christian church
this week, which II the weather permits will
be carried on indefinitely.
We have received the following, which
explains itself Editor Intelligencer:-
cit seems, from the many queer questions
asked you that 1t Is presumed an edito,
knows sill thisgs. go I will with your permis.
sion ask you y few questions which are just
now agitating this vicinity. First. If q
young minister goes into a strange country to
preach the word of God, and he meets Il
young sister, who is fair and lovely. and af-
ter 3 few days acquaintance becomes so sus-
ceptible as to ask her to become his wife ut
the next change of the season, and she ac-
ccpss his proposition, and the next month he
goes to a new ministerial field. and he meets
another young sister, who is also fair to look
upon, and whispers words of love to her, has
! he, being a minister, any more rights or priv
tleges in this direction than any other man,
or should he be made to comply with his con-
tract with the first lady when there is no re-
proach Of her characterr Second. Where
the principal of q school Is a single gentle
man. and his assistant q single lady, they
being lovers, and court at leisure hours, have
they the right to object to, or prohibit u5
scholars from counting, ut recess and when
IN or way home from school? Third.
If q saloon keeper in IN incorporated town
wishes to get q sufficient number Of names to
his petition In order that the cour: may
grant him a license to sell liquor, and the
saloon keeper knowing that one-half of the
t~ax-payin8 citizens of the town oppose SAL
looms, takes names on said petition Of men
who are not, and never have been taxpayers
Of the town, and presents said petition to the
court, which grants him q license, who Is the
criminal In the case, the ssloon-keeper, OF the
false petitioners, or the county clerk. or the
judges Of the county court, and what is the
recourse Of those who oppose the issuing of
the license? By answering the above
questions you will confer q great favor on,
"A Moral Boy" The first thing that strikes
US as to these questions Is that II any one reads
them aloud the length Of the sentences will
take all the breath in their body unless they
make semi-colons and periods of some of the
commas. Even Mr.. Evarts would be "sput
to bis trumps' to keep up the pace longer
without q pause. Aside from this trivial
fault, which Is natural In an inexperienced
writer, "a Moral Boy" seems to be an INTEL
ligent boy as well; hence we take pleasure In
answering his i~nterrogatories to the best of
our ability. The first question, 1t would
seem to us, can admit Of but one reply. A
minister Of the gospel Of the Lord Jesus
I Christ should be q follower and an imitator
of his Master. In Him there was no guile,
no deceit, no hypocrisy. The noblest senti-
ment Of the heart is love. The most unset
fish, all absorblng, true and devoted human
love, next to that Of q mother for her child, Is
the love of q pure young girl for her sweet
heart. 1t Is q nobl passion; one to which
poets have given their best thoughts, and to
which painters and sculptors have devoted
their lives. Philosophers have honored it,
and were 1t taken out of our literature nine
books In ten upon the shelves of ordinary
mortals would consist of back-bosrds and
title pages, in very many instances the titles
even going with the body Of the book. All
ages and all tribes have done and will con-
tlnue to do homage to the divine passion AZ
illustrated in the breast Of woman. Then.
any man who will tride with such a gem as a
woman's heart does a grievops wrong and
must be a bad man. A minister has no i'm.
munity from the rules which apply to all
other men In such cases; on the contrary, the
light which he should possess in order to
justify him In assuming the position Of shep-
herd TO the flock about him makes him all
the more responsible for his acts. In the
case In point the man had asked the first
woman to be his wife, and presumably had
been accepted. If so his pllghted troth
should have been regarded with almost the
same solemnity as would be his final vows ut
the altar. BE had no right whatever. as a
Christian or as a gentleman, to make love to
the second woman. II the facts are correctly
stated by our correspondent, and in no partic-
ulsr Inexperienced by US, this clerical gen.
tleman is unfit topreach the Word of God and
should be treated accordingly. As to forcing
him to marry the first lady, we fear that
would be doing her An irreparable. injury.
The second question Is not so important but
it Is interesting. 1t is to be settled, we think,
oy elementary principles entirely. The COM
bination of male principal and female assist
ant-teacher Us lovers is a very happy one.
So much depends, In the efforts of different
teachers In the same school, IN harmony.
How could it be SO well secured : Our cor
respondent is careful to say that these two
make love In their ''lelsure hours" This Ia
eminently proper. They show I'll apprecia-
ton of their duty to their employers by con-
timing their love-making to leisure hours.
Though, such an interest and sympathy do
most men and women ave for lovers, it
would be q very hard-hearted director who
would enter q formal complaint IL thew
should bill and COO a little in a modest and
undemonstrative way even in h.lsiness hours.
Our mind is quite clear, that 1t is entirely
proper for the gentleman principal to fall in
love with his lady assistant; indeed we are
Inclined to think that we might go beyond
the pale of a single schoolhouse and say, that
it would be quite desirable, und very com
mendable, for each young school-mastcr in
u town to fall in love with one OF the Young
schoolma'ams, and treat her better than was
the lady In the case OF the minister alluded TO
above. Now rs to the children under thei,.
care. The first thing to remember is that
they ass children. They are entrusted to the
teachers to be taught their Aie, hec, hoo and
the rule of three, and II love is thought of at
all in connection with them 1t Is In a conIec-
ture As to how well they can c ,njuqate the
verb smo. Love passages might lie render
ed amars were they to come to the kuowl.
edge Of their parents. As q rule the bow and
girl go to school to study book, !, not each
others looks. We concede that even bow
and-glrl love Is sometimes to b.. respected.
but 1t cannot well be encouraged, even by
Winking at 1t. by teachers, when tie parents,
wishes are unknown. We know of nothing
that would so thoroughly unsettle the minds
of pupils. and render them unit for study
rs being in love. The recess time is given to
strengthen the body, and not for opportuni-
ties to indite sonnets to the eyebrows of pret,
ty Anne OF bewitching Jane, or whisper ten.
der non-ense to enchanting Kate. We are
inclined to think that the teachers, even if
themselves lovers, are right in REFRESHING
love-mskins between their pupils while they
are under their supervision. When the pu-
pills are at home, under the care of their nat
ural guardians, the responsibility of the
teacher ceases. Third. From the altitude
of pure and unadulterated love to the level of
the whisky question is something of Il tum-
BILE, but as all things more or less intertwine
and become dependent one upon another it
f}nnc mot mad - -osn - IT.