The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-05
DO Right, Though the Heaven, Fan.
'Thsy arc slaves who fear to speak
To the fallen and the weak,
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with t,co or three.

Slaves to frivolus fashions, obsolete customs
and public opinion, (that bug-besr to SO
very many souls bound by the narrow hori-
zen of what tho world, or Mrs. Grundy
may think or say. OF course there are
certain proprieties and established customs
to be always observed, but my homely talk
has nothing to do with this. Any man or
woman with average intelligence can easily
settle in his or her mind what is prop or
course Of action 10 be observed when deal
Ing with generaii,es; but when II comes to
dealing man with man, brother with
: lroiher, here is where we run agi ound.
Why will men and women dare not always
do Nhat the soul whispers is right. HUI
man nature in general is not so bad; il un-
trame.ed II follows the dictates Of con-
science; but there are 80 many intricate
springs set in motion when weak soul at
tempts to follow particular line Of action,
involving what he feels to be right, and
ut on the other hand, the world may say.
What may be right for mo my friend, may
be wrong for you, according to our mental
status. or the talents God has given u.s.
But whatever you feel within your soul is
right, dare do that Let the world and its
slaves say what may. Do what God whis-
pers to your conscience is right, aud leave
tne result in His hands. "Paddle your own
canoeR is o good and trite old saying
Many of us women do need to give il
more careful consideration.
Right actions spring from right motives.
III then the fountain head is pure the bal
ahce OF the stream will be pure; dut how
often are good actions encrusted and hidden
from o fear of the world. If one. could
Z free ones SELF from this sonts--? ?tibls fear
The millennium would not seem go distant.
A great many, from desire to be popular,
or on the side with the majority, do vio-
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suade themselves that "might makes right"
forgetting 'they are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three" Fer my
part have most unqualified contempt for
any such wishy .washy character, and my
next strongest feeling il pity.
Some persons with every element aud
qualification for a noble character allow
their whole moral structure TO be warped
ard almost ruined by this fault. They give
this defect or character every name but
the right one, and that is downright cow
ardice. They call II refinement, oonsi iera-
tion for tho feelings Of others and policy,
&c. We'll, policy is good thing, when not
carried too far, and when combined with
Kind christian tact making us to know
when to say the right thing in the right way
audi the right place.. is better still, for
We have all been made to feel at times, We
had "oast our pearls before swine !" but
when there is too much policy mixed up
with tact, 1t becomes 20 palpably weak, and
then the least discerning can readily fathom
the motive and that, after all, is self az.
randizment, and self glerifcs.ion II we
wish to do ything good in this world now
IS the time. We can never travel this road
but once. Only one life is given US here.
Let US be up and doing. Let us try to
make the circumsoribed sphere in which
We live, little better for our. having lived.
"Ihey are slaves who dare not speak, to
the fallen aud the weak
10 illustrate: Suppose we know some
poor sister whose good name and reputation
has been smirched and blaekened by the
vile tongue of rumor-that hydra-headed,
they say" We, in our own minds are
convinced Of her innocence and purity.
Let us seek this unfortunate one. Make
herstee. y 6 sympathetic look, kindly
pressure Of the hand that we believe in
her still, though there are others $50 -srsful
to pluck the "motc from aeighbors eve,
), and regard not the beam that 10 In their
own We must have ohter and better
evidence of her worthessness than sthey
say, before We can believe her 50 de-
PRAYED "To tho pure oil things are pure"
and when we sec any one SO ready to i'm
pute evil to others the suggestion very
naturally forces itself on our minds, the
detractor Is not immaculatei Would not
Kindness and sympathy do moro for tho un.
fortunate, even though she had sinned,
than drawing aside Of our skirts, u tilt of
the nose' or Lifting Of the eyes in Pious
horror?
Women are much to blame for some of
the hard bitter things in life. There seems
such an utter lack Of sympathy for one of
their own sex in distress. In one sense, ex-
clusiveness of this kind does them honor.
but am persuaded 1t springs more from Q
lack OF sympathy than any fear of contami-
nation. A brother may be in troubIe-I do
not mean brother by the ties of blood-we
are all brothers and Aisters in one sense,
Why wait for one Of the same sex to sho
him kindly sympathy and point him the
right way? Men have not the fine keen in
tuition OF woman, and in most cases were
he 10 go with the best of intentions, nine
meu out Of ten would make sad bunole of
the matter, and instead Of pouring oil on
the troubled waters Of the erring one's ssui,
w0Gfi leave him with the conviction that
his feet were too deep in the mirs to ever
hope to reach dry land. In dealing with the
.erring great many zen lack that fine tact
which requires such delicate handling, that
God seems to have reserved it almost ex-
clusively to few good women.
Man will stop and argue and his first
thought IS apt TO be, Gam 1 my brothers
keeper? :" "Have l not as much as can
DO TO keep my own feet in the straight and
narrow yway?' Ah when we ystop to
reason this way, we make short work Of 1t,
90 fares our erring brother is concerned
over one sinner that repentetb. than The
ninety and niue which nee no repentance ~
II we could only SEQ into the hearts Of
others, read there the saored and boly