New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-22

matter is one which when YOU have ayaed OF your your
leaves you confessing that the distinction has IT'S
caprice: in the contemplate meanness Of the male
sex, which In spite OF all its boased chvalry thinks
more of its luss than it does of feminine char
! actcr. and unfortunately succeeds in constraning
women to discriminate between a fallen brother and
fallen sister very much according 10 DaSe ma"
You perceive that there is great deal in this
matter of not getting down 10 the roots or things
and estimating the case regardless of accidental IN
G% Of nat ppfTarg %h S%Gn the mnn ssh
! line We could Illustrate the same thing by taxing
the instance of a man who ought to be in jail You
simply men who ought to be in Jail, but men whom
KS oorn,np b 1' wond he measurablv Contracted
II every candidate for prison distinction met his de-
ser;s But The only point ! want to max max Is tha
and with social Hospitality man whom you have
reason to believe criminal up to the moment when
have hospitality for him or anything else after
the suit comes of. When l say you I mean So
cety generally.
NO HEART FOR AN EX-CONvICT.
Community at large has no heart for ex-con-
vict And yet there may be just as much OF man
in him, indeed there may be more OF man In him
after he comes ont of Jail than there was when he
went in.
ont of 9Sl persons received Sing Sing for the
year ended September 90 1894 80 there for the
second time IS for the third time. Is for the fourth
time and II for the third time. Besides that there
were pa men that had served from one to six times
If yop have ever taxed with an ex,convct YOU
know that one great reason why he returns FOR the
incorrgibly wicked. but because the Church has no
been in jail. Which taken in connection with the
fact that society does tolerate and caress known
what society shrnks from most is not crime but
penal association; another of those arbitrary
fellow Fails into ri, YOU win hep him out: but II
he "A
There il deal of serious work that requires
to be put in along this line. know OF young
woman, she has repeatedly been TO my house.
graded life Three distinct times she recovered her
self from her abandoned ways and secured honor
nzed 10y some one who had known her in her old
that he had a dishonored woman in his service and
she was set adrift She Is now under the care OF
Christian usefulness; There Is far more readiness
the part OF this class OF people 20 abandon their
OF the chief priests and elders. scrbes pharsees and
hypocres to help them abandon it, and TO extend
tality
sOCIETY's UNPARDONABLE SINS.
The Scriptures tell that there IS unparion-
able sin except the sin against the Holy Ghost, what
ever exactly that sin may be Society. on the other
hand says that there several objectionable sins.
and that going States prison Is Of them. AMI
that for "A woman mot !oT man, but FOR woman
TO transgress the Seventh Commandment. IS another
particular sin here referred To- 10 apologize for
IT, but penitence FOR that sin is just as good and
Pen,ence FOR that sin restored The fallen woman
10 the conntenGGe ana friendship o. Jesus mrs,
our our cohiadencc and friendship. Are You going
to impose harder conditions than He? Could lie.
without dishonor. receive 70 His loving fellowship
the returning prodisal and he contritc danshier
was pure enough FOR Him TO welcome is foul
iUr us TO- orG and grns nsny ,hs
city. and some OF them We shall md by and by
Him. H." that i, We sRa II we are good enough to
enter any OF those mansions ourselves: and how
dalens up there II your unreasonins and unsanc,i
upon iSe pa;form pr sasr hrstan Equality
hf My wor,on.nesrer !, YOU are Christian uha,
makes you holy Is iha, you have been washed
in the blood OF the Lamb. 1t isn't that YOU have
never fallen into ways OF gross depravty never
had an experience that is coarse and depraycd;
the Lamb. Now. II your fallen sister has been
to let The foulness that was upon her before she
was cleansed destroy FOR you The fact OF her
You believe that the blood OF Christ has redeemed
YOU: Who are You that you indulge the impudent
her? Ana II she is one OF Gods redeemed ones
what must II mean TO the l:edceiner mat yo1
shrink rom the contact o. one Who IS as dear
worthy Of crown and heavenly welcome?
You remember The voice that spoke 20 Peter
thou common" But common is exactly wha,
YOU are calling some Of these sisters whom God
has 'cleansed': or If YOU are not calling them
common" you are thinking Of them as common.
lol are pracucaliy denyins the i-oris w2rk IN
edge on their part that that is the sort o.
nh1rad n90sP ha 1a aI y2 g Sn2T t te
the bondage Of sin into the freedom and the
believe that God viii forgive them. but they know
you won't.
ONLY FROSTY SYMPATHY.
have had ample opportunity to know what
these women say. know, or at least | have
ground safely to conclude. that there are thou
sands OF them in this very city to-day who loatha
the lif~ they are in. but who shrink with more
OF rcpusicn from the frosty sympathy and
studied ssterliness Of the women who dote on
their own prophecies. who have no interest In
any prodlsas or Magdalens except such as are
told about in the Bibe. and who stand before the
Lord In the self-centred comphcency Of the
Pharisee. and pray Lord. | thank thee that am
not as other women are or even as ms adui-
teress The cry that comes up from thcm, when
and reach forth In the felicities Of and
virtuous NE Is Put nobody Is ever going 10
regard me with respect that Is not three-Quarters
They want to be all that Is implied in that
word womanly and. repenting OF and forsaking
being once more woman among women staining
they have a right to have that longing OF theirs
met and you don't meet it. and the Consequence
is they fall back again into their horrd ways, live
buried in the Potter's Field and their souls 20
TO the region whittier your Pharisaic ptilessness
has helped TO drive them. When say you" here
mean society generally, and to what degree II
is applicable TO the individual women here |
present you can decide for yourselves.
Now the Scriptural authority for the demand /
here made that the penitent convict and the re-
pcntant Magdalcn should be received back into /
frank relations of conferred manly and wOmany |
equality, IL all contained In single feature OF !
the story OF the Prodigal Son. The boy had gone
TO the utmost bound Of dcpraved life. His |
career had not only been abandoned and laWless. !
but IL had been coarse and foul and oafhsOmc. /
That il part OF the story, ana is to be counted /
vet "A luf et "a
interfercd to prevent his fathers reestn blishng
him In precisely the same position In the houtc- /
hold that he occupied before he went out To the I
fathers regard, the penitent abandonment OF !
sin botted out sin: made sin as though IL had |
not boon. The fenture OF the story Is ihe |