The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-14
LAWS NOT ENFORCED
REV. DIR. A. ID. MELDRUM's CHARGE
AGAINST THE CITY ADMIN
IsTRATION
CITY NEEDS ANTIPAs OF OLD

Martyr of PergamOs in Mysia Is
Cited as Valuable Pattern for
Those Entrusted with Enforcing
the Law in This Community
Severe Arrangement of Crying
Evils in Local Affairs.
Rev. Dr. A. B. Medium preached a
forcibIe sermon at Central Pres byterisr
church last night on Social Purity
and Purity in Politics." Reciting the
story Of Antipas, the martyr Of Perga-
mos, DR.. Medium said:
Just now there is crying need of men
Of this type.
OF ancient Greece and Rome have passed
away but other gods have taken their places.
ldolatry has not passed away. There may be
& chSnge OF form without a change OF prin-
ciplc False and vicious principles of life
and morality may prove mischieyous and
degrading TO people as false worship. False
maxims may be as full Of evil as false gods.
So long az the principles, the ideas, which
govern social life false we cannot ex-
pect the life TO be true and pure and strong.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. HIS
life Is determined by his thoughts. de Will
rot act right until first OF all he thinks
right At the basis Of every evil that de-
Ing.
Men demand Of their wives and their sisters
what they are not willing TO give themselves:
Many woman Is banished from the pale OF
decent society for a fault no more grave or
giaring than that OF which many man has
been guilty who is welcomed with open arms
20 what we call the best society.
Is that right? Is that just? What right
have We % demand purity on the part OF
women, while wink at impurity on the
part Of men? The wrong thinking is obvi-
Gus. not IN what men require OF women, but
IN what they are unwilling 10 concede in
themselves. Not that the standard by which
that the standard by which they test manly
morality is too low. And this wrong thinking
Sc found not on the Fart OF men only, but
on the part OF the women themselves Blessed
be the name Of God for the high-toned purity
OF American womanhoOd. And yet our
women, pure and noble as they are. are re-
Fponsible IN no small measure for the fact
that men are tried by a lower standard than
that By which they try themselves. Women
tolerate In men what they will not tolerate
In each other. They make light Of obliquities
on the part Of men which they would count
un7arGoneble ofenses on the part OF any
member OF their own sex. They expect less
OF man, and they are as a rule. not dis
appointed. But Is that night thinking? When
women demand that men be tried by the
same standard as men try them, when they
expect the same kind OF purity OF men thai
men expect Of them and that they expect OF
each other. they will by no means sink in
the estimation or men, and their right idea
viii be productive OF higher standard Of
living on the part Of men.
SAME FOR EACH SEX.
The modern Antlpas Of social life believes
that II Is Just as possible for a man TO be
pure for a woman. He believes In ono
standard Of morality for both. and that Is
Gods standard. He Will protest against the
fallen woman being kicked out into the co
30 long as the fallen man Is welcomed with
smiles. lie viii stand for right thinking al
eyen-handed justice applicable to man and
woman, q morality whose principles adm
OF no variation on the basis OF sex. and
charity that goes out as freely and sponta.
neously TO the tempted woman as to III,
tempted man lie viii stand for a pure man.
hood az wei! as pure womanhood.
lie will maintain that the one IS as i'm
possible AS the Other. And II is. He wi
stand up not only for a higher respect 10 bi
pald 70 woman's nobieness and purity, bu
he Will stand up for truer and higher self
rcspect on The part OF men themselves. n,
viii show the emptiness and the sham o
that sort OF galisntry which doffs It's hat 70 ,
true and good woman and then goes ant
trails It's own honor and virtue In the mire
And ! ask you, young men. whether yol
would like that sort Of a man? Whethe
you woasd stand by him? Some OF yol
would sheer at him and call him a crank an
1901. The idea OF man being as pure a
a woman. Well why not? One OF the mos
puable most contemplate most unmanl
things a young man can do IS to excuse hi
own ohliqditics by pleading the temptation
% which he Is exposed. know the .empta
tons 10 which men are exposed: and ! know
ana you Know mat Whatever may be IN,
temptations you meet In your daily life a
you 60 about your daily business-tha temp
tad0us which floor you. the temptation
which rob you Of your sobriety your self
respect. your honor and your virtue az
as a rule not those which take you unawares
but those Into whose power you de,iberatel,
YOU Is not the company that seeks you, bu
the company you sock. The places where yoi
are unnamed are the places where you ar,
not called. and where you have no bushes.
which Voluntarily O,
THEY ARE NOT TEMPTED.
There are young men who deliberately seel
temptation, fail under its power and ther
whine about the temptations to which mer
are peculiarly exposed. II is unmanly ant
contemplate. What would you think II yol
shou see your sister or your wife or daugh
ter entering sa.oon by the side entranc,
Tor women while you are going in by IA,
iont entrance for men? You would stan,
aghest You would say: This Is awful
horriblcl" And you would be right. You
wrong thinking Is evident when YOU imagin
that that sort OF a thing is really wors
for her than for you. II may look worse. bu
II u no worse God has set up no highe
standard for her than lie has for you
wonl6ns purity Is no more sacred IN God
sight than mans purity.
10 q no more necessary for a man to de
bSuCh himself than it IL for a woman Younl
men should understand this and young won
en- should understand II. too. The safeguar,
81 our sisters. our wives and daughter
attach 20 personal purity r good conscience
clear conscience. their sensitive recoIl from
what Is low and bad. God bless them Ant
terrible will be the day when they lose on
whit OF THAI self esteem. And Vet the,
have allowed themselves 10 fall into the de
fusion that less is 20 be expected of me,
than OF them. On the other hand men cher
as rule sort OF reyerentiRl regar
iUI woman's purity and nobeness but want
INK proper seh-respect they are less exactin
with themselves than they should be- The
do rot honor womanhood too highly. but the
do not honor their own manhood enough Thu
is wrong thinking. II IS vicious and mis-
Chievous thinking Antipas the Faithful woui
protest against IT, lie would stand for pur
manhood well as pure vamauhood an
the same unalterable standard OF morality 10
both And he would be right
NEEDED IN POLITICS. TOO.
Antipas the faithful IS needed in polite.
life. What a stir he would make II ever
should set into the town council! or cours
he should be laughed al. called all sorts ,
names. but he would stand as he stood ,
old one against all I do not know an
place where the heroic spirit OF that o'
martyr Is more needed than in the councf