The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-11

. ShubVu F" iuo piooVhNO anu o'ciyu'1
companionship oi good society, and should
be separated irom IL. There is no more
justice or reasnnableness in continuing to
su,ler from outlaws in social and domestic
life than there would be In opening prison
doors and turning loose the couvcts with
the hope VI diluting their wickednrss by
mingling them with the greater mass of
respectable mankind. No one assumes
that for the ordinarily sick the hospital is
better than the hume, or that for the Nv.
erage child the congregated household IS
more wholesome than tue private family;
but desperate Cases 0f chronic disease aud
deiormiies demanding surgical interier.
ence are best treated where all the appli.
ances known to medical skill ,ge ut hand
and familiar by frequent use; 81, cases .,
moral 0bliquiiy can he more successfully
Strengthened, und monstrosities of charac.
ter be more easily made To conform To
healthy conditions where there has been
experience In treating similar cases.
The idea that one is performing ihe
higsest Christian duty in putting ones self
In familiar daily contact aud under the
some roof with those needing such retorul.
alton is one purely Of sentiment. The pastor
would have little vital or spiritual 10 c.
, with which 10 work If he had " dwell
with his tf,ck and ave their shortcomings
constantly before him. What are the
signs OF moral leprosy and how are tue
incorrigible 10 lie KNOWN Like The
legion of symptoms enumerated for which
patent intdicines are specific, 1t may b.
said ol thcse that "all IN ~ not be present
in every case" aud also that depraviiy Is
SD common hat many life, not without
It's redeening virtues, has been mirred by
similar delecls which Christian teaching
aud principle has helped 10 overcome aud
correct.
The peculiarities Of the most depraved
and hopeless cases have shown n par.
tial or total absence Of the moral sense
as evidenced by trickincss, Ialsehnod and
disho esty in the home, ut school and
among playmaies; dlsobedlenee and
wrong.doing without penitence orremorse I;
repetition Of oil 'nses after punishment and
disregard Of promises Of every kind; re.
vengeful disposition; deliberate cruelty To
animals, with satisfaction and amusement
in lorluring them; n like brutality toward
weak and helpless human kind, with lack
Of compassion ior their inirmiti"s and mis-
fTtunvs; an overbcariny greedy spirit
watch has no backwArdness in appropri
ating the belongings OF Others, no shame
In causing Inconvenience to Or in delraud
ing others; which takes delight in injnring
or destroying things sacred To others
making no restitution or apology and
showing no regret Tor such injury or de
s ruction.
The incorrigible are not given to useful
industry, but are early disposed to take all
things and give nothing; to put of work
just Ms long. slip away from II just as soOr
and do II Just as careessly as possible
making II a momentous, dlscouraging ant
fruilless task to get any kind Of labOl
satisfactorily done by them.
The love OF play and the forgetfulnes,
natural 10 childhood need not be confound
el with the deliberate avoidance o
methods by which the honest and virtuous
instead Of being chronic vampires. Mt,
willing to learn 10 bc selfsustaining anC
helpful; and whoever has lived with anC
observed many children Knows very vel
the disposition which prompts to act
destructive and dangerous to society. anC
that other whose natural impulsivenes
leads the best Of children into occasiona
lapses from good behavior
When Il becomes evident that vicious
ness Is inherent, that II is stronger ant
more aggressive than the good inhurnc
around H.; when Il develops ana show
every symptom Of being ineradicable
when constant and gentle pruning make
no impression upon It's growth, then II 4
time for more heroic treatment and trans
J planting TO another soil. A course, nOx
ious and spreading weed which produces
, NO fruit and blossoms without beauty, Il
out of place In a choice garden. There i
no fitness 10 allowing II to remain there
|; II will moi become at all like the plant
around II and will be serious hindranc
to their symmetry and growth. Tn
; huran ,ximple that contaminaies al
whom Il may influence should be circunl
scribed by authority.
1t Is nU longer question Of individua
privilege; anh the nature 80 deprave,
that its habits and propensities constant
; outrage the rights Of all around II has n
. place among those Of opposite tastes an,
practices. The public rctormaIory is a
} much his place as the asylumis the prope
receptacle for the violently insane, or III
, penlien,iary for the convicted criminal
To dissipate the energies, exhaust ih
vitality and squander the substance npo
! hopeless subjects Is wrong because VI III
, good that is hindered from being done b