The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-17

Governor Smalltalk. Whoever hath an In.
nuendo, whoever hath scandal, whoever
hath q valuable secret. let him come and
sacrifice II to this goddess OF splutter
Thousands OF Adams and Ewes do nothing
but eat fruit that does not belong 10
them. Men quite well known as mathema.
ticians falling in this computation OF moral
| algebra: Good sense plus good breeding.
minus curiosity, equals minding your own
affairs.
Then, how many young men through
curiosity go through the whole realm of
French novels. to see whether they are
really as bad rs moralists have pronou need
them. They come near the verge OF the
precipice just to look of. They want to
see how far 1t really is down, but they lose
their balance while they look and fall into
remediless ruin, or. catching themselves.
Chamber up, bleeding and CHASTITY, on the
rock, gbbering with curses or groanlnc In
| enectual prayer. BY all means encourage
healthful inquisitiveness, by all means dis
courage Ill regulated curiosity.
That one Edenic transgression did not
seem to be much, but 1t struck blow
which to this day makes the earth stagRer.
To find out the consequences OF that one
sin you would have to compel the world to
| throw open all its prison doors and display
the crime, and throw open all its hospitals
and display the disease. and throw omen all
the insane asylums and show the wretch
edness, and open all the sepulchers and
show the dead, and open all the doors OF
the lost world and show the damned. That
one Edenic transgression stretched chords
OF misery across the heart OF the world and
struck them with dolorous wailing, and 1t
has seated the plaques upon the air and the
shipwrecks upon the tempest and fastened.
like leech, famine to the heart OF the sick
and dying nations. Beautiful ut the start.
horrible at the last. Oh, how many have
experienced i'll
Are there here those who are votaries OF
pleasure2 Let me warn you, my brother.
your pleasure boat Is far from shore. and
your summer day Is ending roughly.
for the winds and the waves are loud
voiced, and the overcoming clouds are all
awrithe and agleam with terror. You arc
past the Narrows and almost outside the
Hook, and II the Atlantic take thee, frail
mortal, thou shalt never get to shore
again. Put back; row swiftly, swifter,
swifter Jesus from the shore casteth a
rope. Clasp 1t quickly, now or never. Oh,
are there not some of you who are freight
ing all your loves and joys and hopes upon
vessel which shall never reach the port
OF heaven? Thou nearest the breakers one
heave upon the rocks. Oh, what an awful
crash was that! Another lunge NAV crush
thee beneath the spars or grind thy bones
to powder amid the torn timbers. Over
board for your life, overboard Trust not
that loose plank nor attempt tho wave, but
quickly clasp the fee: OF Jesus walking on
the watery pavement shouting until he
hear thee, Lord, save me or | perlsh!'
Sin beautiful at the start-oh, how sad.
how distressful, at the last The ground
over which 1t leads you is hollow. The
fruit 1t offers to your taste is poison The
promise It makes to you is II lie. Over that
ungodly banquet the keen sword OF Gods
judgment hangs, and there are ominous
handwritings on the walls.
Observe also In this subject how repclling
sin Is when appended to great attractive
ness. Since Ewes death there has been no
such perfection OF womanhood. You could
not suggest an attractiveness to the body
or suggest any refinement to the manner.
You could add no gracefulncss to the gait,
no luster to tho eye no sweetness to the
voice. A perfect God made her perfect
woman, to be the companion OF n perfect
man In u perfect home, and her entire na-
ture vibrated in accord with the beauty and
song OF paradise. But she rebelled against
Gods government, and with the same hand
with which she plucked the fruit she
launched upon tho world the crimes, the
wars, the tumults that have set the universe
Awaiting.
A terrible Offset to all her attractiveness.
We are not surprised when we find men
and women naturally vulgar going into
transgression. We expect that people who
live In the ditch shall have the manners OF
the ditch, but how shocking when we find
sin appended to superior education and to
the rennements OF social life. The accom-
plishments Of Mary Queen OF Scots make
her patronage OF Darnley, the pronigate,
the more appalling. The genius OF Gather
III pf Rnaliu nulv cat forth In,
powerful contrast her indispensable anbi-
tion, The translations from the Greek and
the Lntin by Elizabeth, and her wonderful
qualifications Tor queen, mnke the moro
disgusting her caprcousness Of affection
and her holiness Of temper The greatness
of Byr)n's mind makes the more alarming
Byron y sensuality.
Let no ono think that refinement OF man
ner or exquisiteness Of taste or superiority
of education can In any wise apologize for
Ill temper, for IN oppressive spirit. for un-
kindness, for Hny kind of sin Dsobedi-
ence Godward and transgression manward
can give no excuse. Accomplishment
heaven high Is no apology for vice hell deep.
My subject also impresses me with the
regal influence Of woman. When l see Eve
with this powerful influence over Adam
and over the generations that have fol-
lowed, 1t suggests to me the great power ali
women nave LOT POOl or Tor eNll. i nave
no sympathy, nor have you, with the hol-
low batteries showercd upon women from
the platform and the stage. They mean
nothing; they are accepted as nothing.
Womans nobility consists IN the exercise
OF u Christian influence, anI when l sec
this powerful influence OF Eve upon her
husband and upon the whole human race I
make up my mind that the frDil arm OF
woman can strike a blow which will rcsound
through all eternity, down among the dun
geons or up among the thrones.
or course am hot speaking OF represen-
tative women-of Eve, who ruined the race
by one fruit picking; OF Jael, who drove u
spike through the head OF Sisera, the war
rior; OF Esther, who Overcame royalty; OF
Abigail who stopped host by her own
beautiful prowess; OF Mary. who nursed
the worlds Saviour; OF Grandmother Lois.
immortalized In her grandson Timothy; OF
Charlotte Corday, who drove the dagger
through the heart OF the assas sin OF her
lover. or OF Marie Antoinette, who by one
look from the balcony of her castle quicted
o mob her own scatfold the throne OF for
giyeness and womanly courage. l speak
not OF these extraordinary persons, but OF
those who, unambtious for political
power as wives and mothers and sisters aud
attend to the thousand sweet
Offices OF home.
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