The Newtown bee., 1896-04-10

do not usually desire to blaze them. This man said in brief that he believed | in free love, he would break down the | institution of marriage and destroy the family bond. He said children should . receive only the name of the mother, | since there was no fidelity to the mar riage vow. He said that religion-all 1 religion-was a farce, that all this talk about life beyond and future awards was deception trumped up by men of brains for
 THEIR SELFISH PURPOSES to dupe the gullible and those whom they could use. Miss Agnes k. Mitch ell, 8 teacher in one the mountain schools under charge of he American Mission ary Association, tells of a Baptist preach CT some 20 miles from her school who, in his prayer, fervently thanked God for his ignorance. He prayed 70 God, make me more ignorant, as ignorant as a male and ignorant r." This aston- l i~hcd m" becauSe the ignorant generally want to be educated, or, if they do not, 1 they do n0t care to parade their ignO- rance before the world. This is our hope of reaching the degraded Mountain l Whitee; we cannot do much with the old people, but the old people do not want their children to grow up in the vice that they have dohe. Ignorance generally acknowledges education to be 8 good thing. Tho~e who lead filthy lives do not endorse their fltbiness as a virture; you can hardly imagine 8 de- bauchee taking the platform seriously to advocate the beauty of the life of 8 de- bauchee, Tue drunkard does pot wish any member of his family to be 8 drunk ard, the 0t does not urge another to be s0t, the fool does not desire his friend 10 b. a fool, The impure ac- knowledge the beauty of purity; it is the universal te.Cimony that the pure in heart are blessed. The Christian ac- l LuoWlCdgps that Wbo fervontly praYs with the P-alWist David, after the com mission of his sin: Create in me clean heart, c God, and renew right spirit within me" The heather father acknowledges that who daily washes in the holy Gauges; the heather mother acknowledges that who throws her child as an cilcriDg to the sacred river. The poor Indian acknowledges that who lifts qp his hands in mute prayer to the Great Spirit of the hills. Paul acknowl- edged that when he cried 70 wretched luan that aro. wh0 shall deliver me from the body of this death '"-deliver me from thi- foul and loaths0me monster of in to which | find myself chained.
 Now just few very brief reasons why we all acknowledge this, that the pure in heart are really blessed. One reason is instinct leads us to acknowledge that the pure things are the best things, even though we ourselves do not attain them. ] Ask any boy what is the best water. 1 He does rot wait a moment with his answer; '.pure water" he tells you. Ak any consumer of milk what is the best milk.
 HE SMILES AT THE SIMPLICITY
 of your question, as he replies at once, 'Iurc milk" Ask any afsayer of met als what is the best gold, and it does not require his technical skill to tell you, "purc gold" Ak any one who has never looked into book of physiology and never studied d line about hygiene
 what is the best air, he insta~tIy ans- Wcrs, "Pure air" The pure things are the best things Therefore, we are not surprised to read in the Book of ReveIa- tiOu that gives us about our only glimpse into the world beyond, that the streets of the Heavenly City are of pure gold, as it were transparent glass; that the city itself is of pure gold, like unto clear glass; and that the river of the
 water of life beside whose crystal stream the tree of healing grows is a pure river
 Of course, We all know that the pure man, whose life is pure, it's thoughts and purposes, is the best man.
 Another reason why all acknowledge that the pure in heart are blessed is be-
 cause heaIt-puriCy is the highest kind of purity. Measured in the scale of Gods excellence it tips the beam above all others. There are other kinds of purity l " d body in thoroughly healthy condition pure blood, pure complexion, pure breath-nO taint of disease, no sign of decaying powers. There is a true beau ty in the physical form when it is per- fectly developed, without mar or blem- ish; and l do not wonder that the de- sire to portray this beauty in marble and cOlOTs has led into the realm of the nude and the sensual. We all admire physic- al purity; but l think, if the choice were given us between pure thoughts, pure tastes, pure imaginatiOns and pure body, we would all choose pure mind. Who would rather have clean hands than a clean heart? Who would choose to follow the example of the Pharisees, whom Christ so bitterly de- nOunced, because they made clean the outside of the cup and the platter, while within they were full of extortion and l excess? Purity of mind and heart has 1 power over the body. If the body is diseased, the mind, the spirit will not bear it long it will break away from it's cage and soar to the
 UNTAINTED PURITY OF THE SKIES. COnfine 8 prisoner in the pest hole at Andersonville let him eat the diseased bread and drink the water from the stagnant pool, and soon his spirit breaks away from the emaciated body and enters upon the endless furlough of Heaven. nE oR