Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-14
Flesh Warning Against Spirit.

| The St. Louis EUangelist is one OF
our most valued contemporaries. The
| object of its publication is to furnish
Sabbath reading of a highly moran and
elevating character. The selections on
! its page, entitled "Sunday at Home, u
have in them all that is to be expected
| from the cultivated taste and the deep
earnestness of the Evangetist's. We
commend them to all who desire for
Sabbath reading something that is at
once refined, religious and instructive.
On the editorial page of the current is
sue we find among other edifying mat
ter the following paragraph:
The Evangelical alliance of this city adopted
an admirable paper prepared by DIR. Brookes
| on the observance of the Sabbath. The ac-
| tion was timely. All lovers of good morals
and social order have an interest in securing
a quiet Sabbath consecrated to holy uses.
Degrade that day into a mere season for car
nal pleasure, and it will soon become the
most dangerous day in the whole week; a
time for revelry and dissipation.
AS the salient points of the paper
prepared by DR.. Brookes were objec-
tions TO bicycle-riding and the reading
of secular newspapers, we wish to call
the attention of our valued contempo-
rary to an Inconsistency which slightly
mars what would otherwise be its per.
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which we regret to say are Of a purely
carpal nature.
AS we turn over its pages, after hav-
ing perused it's "Sunday at Home, !"
our eye falls on a blood purifyer adver-
tisement, which a carnal patent-medi-
cine man has inserted "to follow read
ing matter,' for purposes entirely car
nal AS it is warranted to cure all
manner of complaints, male and fe-
male, we will not dwell upon it, nor
upon it's congeners, which promise
cures for fits, opium and morphine
habit, catarrh and all the diseases
which escaped from Pandora's box.
We pass them over because any Objec-
ton to them can be met with the reply
that their publication is work of
necessity and mercy.
But in the case of a patent corset
from which an angel protrudes his
head, on the third page, we feel that
spiritualize matter which is entirely
carnal. The best physiological au-
thorities agree that corsets are deleteri-
Gus, dwarfing the body, and, therefore,
tending to dwarf the soul. And we re-
pret to say that the arch enemy, with
diabolical ingenuity, has prompted the
manufacturer of that patent corset to
place the picture of it where it will
catch the eye of the lady readers of the
Evangelist as on the Sabbath after
noon they turn over its Sunday at
Home" page in the search for other
matter equally edifying. In fact, we
note all through our esteemed con-
temporary evidences of the combat be-
tween things spiritual and the world,
the flesh and the devil. Our atten-
ton is distracted from "Christ our ex-
ample" to GA few facts about summer
silks" From poem on true repent
ance we turn to an advertisement OF
some one's Yankee soap; along with
"the penalty of sin, not extinction of
being, but unending SUFFERING" we
have "money to loan at reasonable
rates." and ladies, do your own stamp
ing" And it is a noticeable fact that,
while the type in which the spiritual
Sabbath-reading portion of the paper
is printed in no case exceeds small plea
in size, the world, the flesh and the
devil faunt in its carnal columns In
letters an inch long. We further re-
gret to notice that excellent spiritual
reading matter has been crowded out
of this weeks issue to MAKE room for
Live Stock Notes" and column
which gives the price of grain and
provision options.
Taking up the Evangelist for Sab
bath reading. after having rejected the
secular newspapers by its advice, its
readers cannot prevent their minds
from being distracted from its spiritual
to its carnal columns. This is the
triffling inconsistency to which we
wished to call the attention of our val
ued contemporary.-Re