The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-09-20
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Better never to have been born than
to live without glory.-Ex.
A good old lady in the NJ E. Church
wanted to jot down the text. and lean
ing over toward her scape- grace nephew
she whispered. Have you got any
cards with your mo" he replied,
land you can't play in church anyhow
and the good lady was so fustered she
forgot all about the text.-Clearfield
Raftman's Journal.
One of the DEVILS schools to which
we doubt not, fully tWo-thirds of the
youth of our country go is the school
of the dime novel and nickel library,
which teaches the boys and girls to des-
pise home to refuse obedience to parents
to be discontinued with quiet indust
riOus life, to place so-called honor
above right as the highest ideal:
school that graduates those who per
severe in it's course of study with the
degree of runaway, tramp and criminal;
a school that destroys the mental and
perverts the moral nature Of it's scholars.
N Orth and West.
One of our prison exchanges, THE
MIRROR of Minnesota, quotes from
The Chautauquan to the effect that
the Indiana WOmen's RefOrmatOry
prison is the only prison in the United
States or in any other land, managed,
differed and administered, from finan-
ces to discipline, solely by women. If
this paragraph should haply come to
the attention of the editor, we wish to
say to him that he appears to have for
gotten the Women's Reformatory pris
on at Sherborn (Mass.) We think the
country can be challenged to show any
prison more ably conducted as regards
both its discipline and it's finances than
is the prison at Sherborn by Mrs. John
son and her women assstants.-Our
Paper.
How surely murder will out. Here
is this man Love, of Watkins, n. Y,
who disappeared from view together
with some $4,000 of the funds of the
bank of which he was cashier, caught
,, at the betting ring and sent back to
answer for his crime. The ruling pas
sion, which probably first led him from
the path of honesty, forced him to jhe
race track and delivered him into the
hands of justice. Like the blinded
5 moth, he flew again into the candles
blaze, and this time got so singed that
the old saw cit is never too late to mend
!. more example to the thousands who
are placed in similar places of trust and
temptation. A warning light to many
} who are now in danger, but an example
and warning light which unfort
i unately will probely not be needed
4 any more than the countless thousands
which have been neglected before
Minneapolis Times.
We have an illustration of by nc
S means an uncommon moral confusion
f mixed with religious fervor in a case il
h the New York Jefferson Market Police
e Court last week. Mr. Seel, a member
t of the Young Mems Christian Associ
g alton, was charged with uttering forged
r checks. He did not deny the accuse
v ton, but was very much puzzled owe
# his detection, and could not reconcile
s it with his beliefin an overruling PrOvi
IS dence "I've been praying for success
t. in passing these checks" he is reported
st as saying, "and now I'm arrested.
f. wholly false idea of religion, and il
D. many forms shows itself. Some Of tn
k greatest and most notorious scOundrel
is who have been known to rob and swim
1T die have been pillars Of churches. an
j. have prayed with fervOr in the confer
it ence meeting. Thus they regard thei
IF religious acts as species of insuranc
n against their eternal doom. In the cas-
Or of Mr.. Seel, he thought he had dis
t. charged all his religious obligations b
c. prayer, and entirely separated his deve
Is ton and his morality. This is only a
VS. extreme illustration of common phas
lg of religious experience. 1t does nc
er necessarily prove that the man is
ne hypocrite He is the victim of falls
IN conception of religion and its direo
in relation to the duties of every Ga.
at There is much in the prevailing tht
is oIogy which thus makes salvation
ne depend upon certain states of feelin
lie. or profession of opinion, This case
10 only an extreme illustration, and niue
RI of the teaching one hears from tn
in pulpit tends to weaken the sanctitie
b. of moral Observation-Disclosures Regi