The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-05

hohihthks ia u pSsuiih' WY ~ h"o
come to be understood that n sermon
is for the purpose of teaching either a
moral or a religious truth. Not being
up in theology, we would, in all
probability, fail in teaching IL, but CO.
relative with religion, we have moral
ty, and secular minister or paper may
he permitted to teach that, without
subjecting himself TO the charge OF
sacrilegiously tampcring with inter-
csts which jeopardize the souls of
men. We are glad TO leave the souls
ofthc people to the care of the preach
ers, but we have mission to their in-
iellects and bodies which we may dis
charge with safety and we must do 1t
also with profit, to them at least. Our
text is "Purity. of Living" Cleanli-
ness Is said TO be next to godliness.
We can see how this aphorism may
have double meaning and power
full one IN both characters. OF course
we do not look for purity of manners
aud of mind In an encasement of filth.
The texture of mans clothing cuts
no figure in the case. Its purity is all.
Ii may be the coars est of homespun
cotton, but fit Is clean, all OF the re-
quirements of our text are met, so far
as that is concerned. Next to per-
sonal apparel comes the domicile. A
man cannot remain pure and
clean whose house is mass
of filth. Both his clothing
and his morals will SUI.
fer If his house is reekine
with filth, If the street or yard il
which his house is located is filth,
aud unsightly. This is all bad enough
and conducive TO n state of misery Il
which consequences are attached o
the gravest kind. In short IL is ba'
enough.
But there IL another kind of filtl
which is far worse, far more serious i
! the evils which IL inilicts. 1t is mora
filth, and this filth may have all tn
clothing as White and immac1lafe a
, tho snow-urift itself. Its dwellin
. place may be as spotless and as pur
as the altar cloth, but still there
\ rottenncss, disease, loathsomo sore
0 and utter putridity within. This sol
: of filth is not only fatal TO bodil
|. health, but 1t is deadly to NOR,
health and even bare existence. 1t
bad enough where the low, the abal
doned and the daringly wicked pra,
tice 1t. But IL far worse and infinit,
ly more dangerous and disgustin
! when the ostensibly pure practice |
9 Those who license and patroni7
bawdy houses cannot remain pure.
life spent within the purieus of vice
vicious beyond question. The hea
off family who sits down with All
consorts with the scarlet women {
per,iition cannot carry home with hin
10 his pure wife and innocer
children, a person worthy their ass,
citation, or even m0mentary tolers
ton. That vice sinks n man tar nor
0 RAPIDLY and to far lower depth tina
does cards, whisky or any other.
brutalizes completely and does II
work expeditiously and effectivel,
All the finer, softer and purer instinct
G of a mans nature arc lost In the pra,
tice it. 1t is dreadful In its appl
cation to the daily life of iis deve
"a tees, but 1t Is deadly In its effects upo
D his moral character aud In the fin,
Judgment of man as free, respons
= BILE agent.
But dreadful as this vice is upon ih
the male portion OF the population,
is but faint glimmer of light In CON
, parison to the fierce flames which on
velop, scorch and shrivel women
Woman, when she does fall, sinks to
depth that would bewilder and fright
; en- the hardest and wickedest man
The bittcrest reflection which cal
come to her or her friends, is. tina
this evil was perpetrated by hel
who, despite poverty aud lowly con
dition, was nm angel Of innocence ant
light. Remorse is but the mill-ston,
which sends her polluted soul Il
the deepest depths of earthly perdi
tion, while the polluted man is ye,
lowering about its flower-bedecked
brink. Let our city aud its brave
true. honest government unite "a
drive from our borders every inmate
OF our houses of this kind and rae
their walls 10 level with the ground
upon which they are built.