Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-14
WOMEN BETTER THAN MEN.
More OF Them Are Christians and DR.
NorthrOp Tells Why This
In TRm0

Certain critics of Christianity are &C.
customed to cast slurs at its principles ant
progress. intimating that it is a religion OF
women largely and not OF men" said DR.
Northrop in the course of his morning
sermon at the First Baptist church. "Mer
as a class are more wicked. living for low.
er ideals than women, and hence more
dlf1cult to bring under Christian influences
Men are far more worldly than women.
BUSINESS, moneymaking, politics. club
houses, questions of labor and capital, Sc
cret orders and the pleasures of society
constantly attract their attention so that
their minds are not easily concerned about
the future life.
Christian men are less jealous than
Christian women in winning their own sex
10 Cnrlst. In other words, women make
more converts among themselves than men
90 among themselves.
Men see the rougher sid of life thai
women; more meanness, impurity, licen-
t1ousness. blasphemy; more fraud and n.y.
pocrlsy; and consequently become morally
ueDased. The larger share of women stay
at home; are more free from evil contami-
nation. have more leisure for meditation.
are greater readers of helpful literature n
Women as a whole are better educated
tnan men, and hence AVE clearer views of
salvation and the moral law. There are
t5o,og male and 10000 female teacher in
the boys drop out when the studies are
dilncuit, while the girls conquer them so
mat on graduating day there are at least
Iour girls to one boy. 1t is easy to see
that women as a body are in advance of
men in mental training, and hence are
Divine truth. N0
There are far more men in our states
prisons and penal institutions than women:
tramps by the thousands are, with a few
possible exceptions, men. In other words.
mere are $500 persons in our prisons in
the United ~states-76.oO men and 1000 wom-
en-. 1t is safe to say there are a0O, 900 men
VINO are tramping and are in states pris-
ons. rms leaves a vast majority Of wom-
en- on the outside to become Christians.
rha en- hearts are colder than women's.
the good, the beautiful and the true. When
II comes to the heart, women are stronger
~ men. Ihey are truer in their love
their fidelity. to the church amounts to a
sublime passion born of heaven. The wom-
en- STOOD by the cross, the men hurried
from their Lord. 1t is a noteworthy fact
that not a single woman in Gospel history
Is mentioned as having been false to her
Women keep with tenacious grip the re-
HgiouS teachings handed Town to them by
S Il legacy IS the most precious of
All inherited blessings. They hold in their
and homes the dearest heirlooms Of
a Bible,loving ancestry. On the other hand.
men allow themselves, and sometimes try'
~ u.oWh. III ulOfdl. sense ana parental re-
in the excitements of the world
Only faint glimmerings of God, Of Christ.
and future Judgment remain on the pages
OF the soul unless revived by the goadines
OF conscience or the awful fortunes of re-.
morse in the last hours of life.
IT IS no cause of surprise. therefore. !
IN view of these facts and figures. that
largely prevail on our church rolls. |
me great surplus Of men. as we have
SHOWN. are immersed in business, in pleas |
lres, in crimes. allured by the fatal cur. |
into gambling bells, ruined in |
1aunts OF vice. deprived of freedom behind |
march of vagrancy here and there |
n this wide world. II the great mass of |
men are drawn into the death traps of
ne devil on the outside, it is no wonder |
hat women are on the inside of the church |
ID faithful adherents of the Christ of Cal |
'ary- May the Christian and nom Christian
prove truer to their sex, living love
y lives that will tell upon their fathers, |
husbands. sons and lovers. and
% the feet Of our Master"