The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-29
Ghe gntelIigetrter,
oalcs, Nos. 20 aud ~ Fourteenth Street,
WRECKED WoM4NHo0D.

A Plea for Social Purity-A Noble Woman
Talks for the spurned CIAss.
CaesaHd Lauder Of Monday.
There was large audience at the PEG.
pies Tabernacle last evening to hear Miss
+, Jennie Duty explain the objects OF the
White Gross League, The ladies Of the
non'pRrtiran Women's Christian Union
are earnestly working for the advance.
ment ofaocial purity, and several OF them
occupied seats on the platform, The ex-
ercises opened with music by choir Of
trained voices, under the leadership Of
Professor N, Coe Stewart. A prayer was
offered by Rev, William johnson, and
then Miss Duty spoke Of the proposed
new building for the Friendly Iun. She
eaid that but 900 was row needed to
assure the erection Of the building, and
asked the Sunday school children to con.
tribute one brick each to the project.
Miss Duty preiaCed her plea for social
purity by reading the pledge Of the White
Gross League, which is as follows:
VI promise, by the help OF God, 10 treat
all women with respect, and endeavor IN
protect them from wrongand degradation,
10 endesyor to put down all indecent Lam
guage and coarse tests. To maintain the
law Of purity as equally binding upon
men and women. 10 sndeayor to spread
these principles among my companions,
and to try and help my younger brothers,
To use every possible means to fulfill the
command, keep thysei pure," The
speaker said that she had no apology to
offer for her subject or her plainness in
handling it, for
she SPOKE IN THE FEAR OF GOD.
"When God came down from heaven TO
earth to redeem U.s." she said, she sat at
well and talked with a woman who was
asipner, and take courage when 1 think
Of this, In the frat place he offered her
the water Of lie, and how wish that wa
were more like him. There lisa great evil
in the world and II hiding would cure ii
we would hide it, The press is brought
into our homes with details OF crimes
which II does not condemn, and our elias.
steal literature speaks more plainly OF Ger.
tain things than shall"
snow and then we hear from the pulpit
something about the social evil which is
running and destroying soul and body.
Teachers are silent and fathers and moth.
ers are silent. 1t Is impossible for child
10 grow up without learning OF the mys.
tories OF its being and creation, and It
makes all the difference In the world
whether the light Of heaven or the lurid
glare Of hell are thrown on them, am
glad that | am upheld by tho word OF
God, and am not afraid to read from that
book" Miss Duty then read number Of
verse; from Proverbs relative 10 her theme,
and said at the conclusion: "See how
plain is the word Of God on this subject "
She eulogized Editor Stead, of tho Pail
MaN Gazette, and said that she had been
inspired by reading his life. She said that
he had been perseCuted, and that his trials
seemed like something that might have
happened In the early days Of Christianity.
"He periled his lie
TO SAVE LITTLE GIRLS FROM RUIN,
and secured the passage Of law which
protects them. Something must BIO done
for social purity, and 1t can be done by the
White Gross League. Our Gospel is not
Of despair, but of hope, and when the
children Of God arc doing work Of this
kind Gsd 10 leading them. We find a
false public opinion regarding this evil,
andit tho evil Is ever TO be cured It will be
not 60 much by law rs by the hearts Of
hepeoplo. Where are the fallen women ?
They arc singled out and live on certain
streets or in certain blocks But whers
are tho equally guilty menu They are
not banished-they are In tho homes.
We have often said in our hearts how
hard 1t is that when two sinners are equal.
ly guilty one must bear all the pain and
shame while the other goes free. have
pity in my heart for tho other one, and a
man must have his moral possibilities
deadened to allow the woman to bear the
entire burden.
Both should DO equally denounced, and
the man classed Just the same as the
woman, and just 10 much mercy 10 be
shown to the woman as to the man.
There Is not man here tonight but has
some influence, and II he had an immoral
companion he should convert him over to
the side OF purity or leave him immediate.
ly. The obligation Of this league says
that all women shall be- treated with re.
spect. have seen men on the streets
and in cars who would smile at a fallen
woman. Most men always treat good
women well, but any man who in
thought or deed insults d woman, insults
his own mother. No man with principle
can smile at wrecked womanhood. There
is one way TO protect woman, and that iB
to give wages enough to support them. l
have seen
A WOMAN MAKING CALICO SHIRTS
for sixty cents a dozen. 1t is just such
things as this that are pushing SO many
young girls into the waged Of evil. There
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