St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-01
FOR THE CLERGY

One OF our local preachers week ago
| startled his congregation by vigorous
onslaught from the pulpit on the sins
| of the women of his flock. The reports
| OF what he said have acquired certain
VaguenesS in their repetition: and, like
| story i'll Il game of scandal, his sermon
has probably reached the GLOBES ears
| in q shape which is much different from
| the original and authentic version. The
| general permanent impression it has
left on the minds of his hearers how
! ever, is that the women of that parish
are particularly wicked: and that the
older ones all play poker, and the
younger ones are wholly lost to grace,
| so profound is their devotion to dane
! ing parties and other forms OF devilish
| frivollty.
The GLOBE is Il great church goer.
and indorSes and admires every clergy
man i'll the city. Il thinks that they
are the most important instruments we
| have for municipal progress and stabil-
ity. 1t appreciates and applauds their
noble characters and great learning, and
holds them up as worthy examples of
Self-denial and seriousness to the NAM
mon-worshipng and flippant laity of
| st. Paul. 1t especially admireS and APP
| plauds this particular clergyman who
| has been den Ouncing the sins of women.
| The GLOBE does not know that it would
have any single priest with whom it is
acquainted a bit different from what he
! is. But, as a faithful reflector of pop
ular opinion, it reports that there is an
| Impression abroad to the following eff
feet: Some people criticise the churches
because, they say, their pastors really
do not know very much about the world,
and that when they abandon the analy-
sis of theological dogma they hit very
wide of the mark. These critics think
that, if clergymen would be very much
i'll the swim until they are thirty years
old, they would acquire all am Ount of
experience which would fit them to be
reformers of the first water.
OF course there is nothing in this, be-
cause if man should spend the first
| thirty years of his life in the world it
would take all his energies after that
| for his OWE reformation, and he would
have none left for the salvation of
! society in general. And the GLOBE is
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| denounces poker playing by women
three years behind time is better than
clergyman who has contemporary
| alertneSs in detecting the symptoms of
the gaming table because he once
! fingered the chips himself. There used
to be deal of gambling among the
respectable women of st. Paul. but this
was during the real estate boom. Poker
| playing inevitably accompanies period
| of great pecuniary activity, when every
body is making large sums of money
easily. Amid such feycrish excitement
ordinary diversions seem insIpid,
and first the men, and then women
and children find the allurements
of poker very restfuI. The real estate
! boom is over in st. Paul for the present
| and some years ago tea parties and
| quitting bees resumed their social SUI
| premacy among us, as being more in
keeping with the general StagnatiOn. 1t
| is just rs well that the clergy did not
| hear of the poker craze until this late
day. 1t gives their denunciation of it a
certain historical interest, and recalls
sweet memories of time when the
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rode in hack when he pleased.
The GLOBE has less sympathy with
its clerical friend for accusing the
sweet young girls of his congregation of
! sinfulness. This only hurts their feel
ings; and truly. very truly, the GLOBE,
which knows them well, declares that
! they have no sins. Once upon time
| the GLOBES grandmother, being then
past seventy, at a temperance revival
meeting, for the sake of the example,
signed the pledge. The dear old lady
had never in her life tasted ANYTHING
| stronger than burnt brandy, taken
under a physicians prescription; but
her frivolous offspring, with aifectations
Ofthc deepest feeling, thanked her for the
| step she had taken, and told her how
| glad they were that she would 10 longer
come reeling home in the morning from
the grog shop which she had been in the
habit of frequenting. This, however,
was all fun, and in the same way the
newspapers sometimes criticse young
| women for folly and waste of time.
But if any clergyman or other recluse.
reading these things, thinks that they
! dlo lluS' he 10 very HucH hhlStdken.
They are nothing but jokes. The girls
of our day have no vices, unless clean
illness. cheerfulness, responsiveness and
comeliness are vices. They love bright
colors and gayety, but in every scene of
pleasure and Happiness they are the
brightest colors and the gayest scenes.
They are sweet flowers which cheer
even those who do not know them, as
they pass TO and fro on the street. No
body should hurt their feelings or de-
press them by hostile criticisms. If
clergymen want to denounce sin and
are IN lack of material let them come
down and talk to the GLOBE for awhile.
1t can put them on to thing or two.
But let our sweet young girls be unmo-
| Tested.