St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-15

perverted passions that have warped
and crippled his mind.
OF measures to alleviate this condi-
ton of peryersIon the first thing to hold
by is the motto: Reject all expert
ments that in the experience of centu-
ries have been failures. Recall what
severity has done-the savagery of
death by turning vipers into cell, the
horrors of the prison in Connecticut,
the walls. where all the inmates were
racked by the pains of rheumatism;
Massachusetts prisons
Without u Ray OF Light
in the cells, where all were together,
and despair made common brother
hood, whose practices were too horrible
to relate; a prison in this land of ours
where one was branded, another had
his ears cut off, and another his nose
slit; recall the physical fortunes related
OF those early times when 160 crimes
were of capital nature, and where the
wise Blackstone, after the most rigid
examination of conditions, concluded
that an entire change must, by the force
OF circumstances, come, and you will
agree with me that some of the
many methods supposed in the
other ages to be most effective
have proven incompetent and failed.
OF capital punishment, it is enough to
say that it is going. The gallows will
take Its place beside the cross. the fire
at the stake and the ak. We cannou
hurry its abolition; possibly it is not
wise to do so; but it is cad by anticipa-
ton, and in the evolution OF thought
will soon be supplanted.
OF methods have little to say, for
with them we have little to do. As
churches, as benevolent societies, as Or
CARNATIONS, we have a more practical
work. Prevention is the watchword
and rallying call of our time aud to the
people we reach. Suppose the fields OF
this fair state were being devastated by
a weed like the Canada thistle, that did
so much harm in Vermont. Would it he
wise for Us to spend our time Oh schemes
OF elimination, while great establish
ment was propagating the seed and
sending it broadcast over the state? Or,
IT the stream is black and full of the
germs OF pestilence, would it not be
wiser to
Seek the Causes
of the condition than to spend our time
in making an analysis of the water for
the sake of curiosity? The greatest ben
efactor of to-day is the man who devotes
dltions. We must reconstruct our the
DRY of discrimination between sacred
and secular things. All things are Sa-
cred. Therefore physiology must assist
us in a knowledge of those bodily condi-
lions. abnormal state, it is true, but so
closely bound up with our happiness
that they are the cause of the greatest
misery. Our homes must be sacred. and
Ill them we must form those habits
which after while become second nature.
Church work must he broadened III its
scope until our amuSementS become
sacred, and we must form those aSSoci-
atoms of the young that give the healthy
that grow into healthy,
rational enjoyments. and. like the
Greek. instead of filling our ears when
we pass the dangerous point, we make
a sweeter music that is more attractive
than that Of the perverted world. The
amusements of the young are quite as
as their prayers. Then buSl-
ness methods must be frowned down
which are not legitimate. Politicians
must learn that the moral sense has not
been eliminated. III word, virtue and
honor must be steadily developed in our
common life, and when this IS done, we
will find we have been in the best way
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