Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-02

melodramatic clergyman, who, to the
very last says the only happiness that
he ever had was when he was SHINING
simply gave 10 his congregation sort
of gossip, kind of exaggerated essay,
with himself as the hero, and his sin
as the chief incident, and nobody was
the better for it. He shamed the
church TO which he belonged; he sham
cd thefather whose name he bore, and ne
did nobody any good. The best ex-
preston Of penance is good works.
My dear good woman. just remem-
Der that
THE CLERGYMAN WITH WHOM
YOU FLIRT,
spiritually IS physically, a man, and
the toss Of the hand. the dropping of the
eyelid, the culver OF the lip and the
whole dainty get-up is as attractive TO
him as Il is 10 any other man, and his
temptations are three times as great be
cause you make them so. II you feel
that you must tell a clergyman your
sins, do Il with a chaperOne. The love
ly library with its stained glass win
dows, the rows Of beautiful books
framing 20 the pictures, the table COW
cred with religious books and with re-
ligious symbols, the prize dieu. the soft
carpet which sends forth no sound as
the clergyman approaches you, all tend
to what might be Called an aesthetic
penitence on your part. The place
isn't cold: it is warm. The fragrance
OF flowers Is In the room, and YOU feel
how good thing II is to be sister.
Then you tell this man of the SINS on
your soul. You dilate on your tempta-
tons. You quote from your favorite
| authors. you whisper OF the woman or
the man whose effect upon you is least
good. and you go away feeling your
self a saint. Though you remember
that Reverend Iced Purple pressed your
hand in such an impressive way when
you left And there is a pleasant smile
about your lips and you feel sure that
the pressue of the hand was from the
man and not from the priest. Possibly
| the next time or the next time he
gives you q special blessing which In
cludes a kiss On your forehead, and
| then-well, ther is another story. But
you see how Il begins. II would be
god idea if you would remember that,
while the Magdalene confessed TO
Christ and was forgiven, there is moth
ing told Of her going around The world
announcing her sins and dwelling on
the quality of them from the various
| churches.
WHEN PETER FELL
he went out alone and wept bitterl--.
He may have repented in sackcloth,
but he wrought out his salvation in
good works.
There came into my life once a wo-
man whn had ben IN the habit OF max
/ ing just such confessions as l have des-
cribed. However, she was good wo-
man. After a while she found no hap
plness in the church % which she be-
| lOnged, and she became a member Of
the Catholic Church. To me. she con-
fded the great Joy she expected from
her first confession. She made it-but
not where il was warm, not where the
odor Of flowers was strong. nor where
there was n soft carpet and soft Gus
| ion to knel upon, but at sick o'clock
| in the morning in q cold church, in
cold confessional and TO a priest whom
she could scarcely see. Sac began her
pretty little story Of her dainty little
! sins. as she had been in the habit Of
| doing. when she was told 10 stop, and
| the priest coldly and calmly Informed
| her that she hadn't come there TO Cos
sip. hut TO accuse herself OF doing
wrong. 10 hear of the right, and that
he didn't wish to listen 10 rOmances.
nor did he desire to hear stories about
! her friends The trouble is that wo-
men expect in a clergyman the spiritual
TO triumph so entirely over the phys.-
cal that fall is impossible. They for
get that Satan dared 10 tempt Christ
Himself. What viii he do with men
Who are lighting TO overcome him and
vet who are far, very far, from being
| immaculate? The manifest Of poets
expressed in four lines what the aver
age woman expects from a clergyman
BE a god and hold me
With 4 charm
BE q man and hold me-
With thine arm
II is an impossibility and yet, and
vet the world goes on and the story is
told. and the only sinner who really
makes his penitence worth anything
is that one who flls his life with deeds
that speak of the goodness Of heaven
ard tell Of the mercy Of Christ. That
is enough about the play and what 1t
suggested.
TACT IN WOMEN.
Speaking Of women. heard a clever
one give as her idea OF the best meth
Cd of holding a man, this answer:
make him a creature of habit" DO
you know how much truth there is in
that? II you are in doubt about a man,
try it. Get him in the habit Of sitting
I'm a certain chair. and he finds most
others uncomfortable; get him in the
habit Of seeing Your face smiling at him
across the dinner table. and he Is rather
uIset when he s opposite another wo-
man. Tlat woman who understood a
man Who had loved many women. that
woman who was neither young or beau
full. Madame de Mantenon, said to
Louis .he Fourteenth: He IS used 10
every chair IN my room. and If their
places were changed it would annoy
him. He = used 10 walking a certain
distance every evening TO see me. and 10
20 fur.hs- or less would be a trouble 10
him. I know the things that please
him. the food he likes. I know wha.
annoys p m. 7 know the people who are
rleasant 10 him. and I never con .rad'ct