The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-10

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| the community but stops at their door and they
| luXuriate and grow fat in the endless round of
| the great world of tittle-tattle. He invites and
sumptuously entertains at his fresde Colonel
| Twaddle, Esquire Cht-Chat and Governor Small
Talk. Whosoever hath SANDER, whosoever
hath an innuendo whosoever hath valuable Sc
| cret, let them come and offer it sacrifice to
! this goddess of splutter Multitudes OF Adams
and Ewes spend their whole time in eating fruit
that does not belong to them. Some who are
proficient mathematician have never learned
this computation in moral algebra:
Good sense Good breeding CurioSity=M Winding
| your business.
Young people, urged on by their iEquisitive-
ness have ransacked the whole field of French
novels to find out whether they really are as bad
| as moralists have pronounced them just com
ing to look over the parapets they have lost their
balance and down they went dashed to rene
| dlless destruction, or perchance crawling up on
the rocks, shattered, and bleeding and CHASTITY,
| glbbering with curses groaning Intellectual
prayers Passion is a fiery courser, and driven
along dangerous places it may become unman-
| ageable, and, at the sudden sound OF mirth's
trumpet, bit and pole break and it lunges like
| bolt into terrible abysses
| Again, learn from Ewes career that some
fruits that are pleasant to the taste after
ward produce agony. The forbidden fruit was
so pleasant to Ewes appetite she is not satisfied
until her husband tastes it. But her Danish
ment from Paradise and the sufferings of
tire race were the price paid for the luxury.
| happiness for temporary satisfaction The cup
of sin always sparkles at the top, but there is
death at the bottom. 1ntoxicaton hath pleas
ant eXhilarations, makes a man see five stars
where others see one star, puts spring into the
ground, fllips the blood makes the poor man
feel rich, and cheeks white as snow red as roses.
But what about the dreams that come after
ward, when they seem falling from great heights
and in effort to themselves meeting with
other fancied disasters, till the sweat stands
the brow like the night dews of eternal dark
| ness and they are ground under the hoof Of
horrid nightmares, shrieking out with lips that
crackle with feversh tortured Look into that
| hall of revery where ungodly mirth staggers
| and blasphemes. Listen to the senseless gable
| and watch the goingout of the last traces of
manhood from men made in Gods own image.
'Ha, hal This is joy for you'll" saith registering
nelghbor. "Fill your cups my boysl Here's to
my wifes sorrow, and my children's rags, and
my Gods defance" But he sees not that the
fiend stirs the goblet in the hand, and adders
unco from the bottom and thrust up their
forked tongues, kissing in the froth on the brim.
Perdition bought for a siXpeneel
The fruit was pleasant to Eve. but that disobe-
dience still smites the earth until it reels like an
| OK under the butchers bludgeon. Who could
tell the consequence of that sin unless all at
| once he could make the world throw open all its
| prison doors to expose the crimes, and all its
| hospitals to show the disease, and all the aims
| houses to SHOVE the squalor, and all the insane
| asylums to display the madness, and all the
sepulchers to show the dead, and all the gates of
| the lost to show the damned That one Edenc
| transgression has lighted up every ungodly pas
| sion, and stretched cords of misery over the
world, striking them into dolorous woe. and
| hath seated plaques on the air. and spipwrecks
on the tempest, and hath fastened famine like
leech on the sick heart of the nations, and made
| 10 900 battle-ields groan with horror.
| Oh, the deceitfulnesS of sin! The ground over
which it leads you is hollow. the fruits it offers
to your taste are poisoned, the promise it makes
| is a lie. Over this ungodly BANQUET the keen,
| OlittariDp sword Of Gods INDIGNANT is
ed An ominous handwriting is on the wall. o,
| thou misguided victim of pleasure, | sound the
| alarm! Thy pleasure boat is far from shore,
| Thy summer day is closing roughly, for the
| winds and waves are loud-voiced, and the over
coming clouds are all awrithe and ageam with
terror. Thou art past the ''Narrows," almost out
side the 'Hook," and if the Atlantic take thee,
frail mortal, thou shalt never get to shore again
HomewarG! Put back! Row swiftly! Swifter,
| swifter, swifter! Jesus from the shore, cast
eth a rope. Grasp it quickly Now or
never! Some of my hearers, [ fear, have
| freighted all their hopes, and loves and Joys
upon vessel which shall never bring them to a
| port of safety. See thou nearest the breakers!
One heave upon the rocks Another lunge may
crush thee beneath the shrivelled spars, or grind
thy bones to powder among the torn timbers
! Overheard, for thy life. Overheard Trust not
that loose plank tempt the shore, but
quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking upon the
watery pavement, shouting till He hear thee.
| lord, save or perish"
Again, the biography of Eve teaches me what
shocking thing sin is when appended to great
| beauty and refinement. Never since Ewes death
has the world seen such perfection of woman
hood. Coming directly from the hand of God
there was not another attraction you could have
suggested for her person nor another refinement
to her manners. No gracefulness could have
been added to her gait, no sparkle to her eye,
color to her cheek, no sweetness to her voice to
be the companion of perfect man and the in
habitant of perfect home. God had created
| her, and all that beautiful nature vibrated in
| accord with the brightness of the scene of Para
disc. But she resisted Gods authority and with
the same hand with which she plucked the fruit
launched upon unborn generations the crime,
and the wars, and the tombs, and the woes
which have set the universe awaiting Terrible
Offset to all her attractiveneSS.
| To find men and women naturally vulgar
| given up TO evil practices does not starte us
very much, for expect those who live in the
| ditch, to have the manners of the ditch. But
| when we find wickedness Joined to acuteness of
intellect and attractiveness of manner, we are
| startled. The accomplishments of Mary Queen
of Scots made her patronage of Darnley, the
| profigate, tbs more astounding. The genius of
| Catharne Ii, Empress of Russia, only set off in
more repelling light her indispensable ambition
| The translations which Elizabeth made from
the Latin and the Greek, and her extraordinary
| qualification for Queen only brought out into
more vivid contempt her caprciousness of af-
lection and haughtiness of temper. Lord Byrons
! greatness makes the more shameful Lord Byrons
| sensuality Let no one think that suavity of
| bearing or high style of accomplishment
apologize for vanity, or i'll temper, unkindness
Disobedience to God unrghteousness towards
man will becloud the most brilliant attainments
Though your accomplishments be heaven high
they will not excuse for vice hel-deep
Again learn the real influence of woman In
| the power which Eve exercised over Adam and
on the destiny of uncounted generations see a
| type of the power which her descendants should
exercise. We have no sympathy with the fiat
teries that are showered upon her from the
pulpit and the stage. The true nobility of
woman consists in the power of Christian
influence. Ewes overthrow of Adam and the
race was only illustration of what power
there is now in the frail arm of women to strike
until the echo ring through eternity down among
the caverns up among the thrones. This in
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