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LAWS NOT ENFORCED
REV. DIR. Abb. MELDRUM,s CHARGE
AGAINST THE CITY ADMIN
IsTRATIoN
CITY NEEDS ANTIPAs OF OLD

Martyr of PergamOs I'm MysIa Is
Cited as Valuable Pattern for
Those Entrusted with Enforcing
the Law In This Community
severe Arrangement of Crying
Evils I'm Local Affairs.
Rev. Dr. A. 3. Medium preached a
forcible sermon at Central Presbyterian
church last night on Social Purity
and Purity in Politics" Recitiag the
story Of Antipas, the martyr of Perga-
mos, Or. Medium said:
Just now there Is crying need Of men
Antipas is needed in social life. The gods
OF ancient Greece and Rome have passed
away. but other gods have taken their places.
Inotstry mas not passed away. There may be
change OF form without change OF prin-
ciplc False and vicious principles OF life
ana ncrahty MAJ prove as miscnieyous and
degrading 20 a people as false worship. False
maXms may be as full Of evil as false gods.
So long as the principles the IDEAS, which
govern social life are false we cannot ex-
pect the life 10 be true and pure and strong.
As a man thinketh IN his heart 80 is he. His
life is determined by his thoughts. DE viii
rot act right until first OF all he thinks
right. At the basis Of every evil that de-
grades sccial life today there Is wrong think
Men demand Of their wives and their sisters
what they are not willing TO give themselves.
Many woman r. tauished from the pale OF
decent society for fault no more grave or
Fiaring than that OF which many a man has
been guilty WHO ls welcomed with open arms
10 what We call the best society.
Ia that right? Is that just2 What right
have we 10 demand purity on the part OF
women, while We wink at impurity on the
part % men2 The wrong thinking Is oby-
ous. not IN what men require OF women, but
IN what they are unwilling 10 cOncede in
Themselves. Not that the standard By which
frv nj mar 81 ~ - too fgh h ~
that the standard by which they test manly
morality is too low. And this wrong thinking
on the part Of the women themselves. Blessed
be the name Of God for the high-to 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 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 obliquiues
on the part Of men which they would count
member Of their own sex. They expect less
OF man. and they are as a rule not dis
appointed But IL that right thinking? When
women demand that men be tried by the
same STANDARD as try them, when they
expect the same kind Of purity OF men that
men expect Of them and that they expect OF
each other. they will by no means sink in
the estimation OF men. and their right ideas
will be productive Of A higher standard OF
living on the part OF men.
SAME FOR EACH SEX.
The modern Antipas Of social life believes
that II is just as possible for a man % be
pure as for r woman. He believes IN one
standard Of morality for both. and that is
Gods standard He will protest against the
fallen woman being kicked out into the cold
80 long Is the fallen man Il welcomed with
smiles. lie Will stand for right thinking an
eYen-handed Justice applicable 10 man and
woman. a morality whose principles admit
ehArity that goes out as freely and Egonta-
neously 10 the tempted woman as 10 tho
tempted man. lie VIII stand for a pure man
hoou as wei as pure womanhood.
he viii maintain that @tho one is as i'm
possible as the other. And Il is. He will
stand up not only for a higher respect 10 be
paid 10 woman's nobleness and nuritv Int
he viii stand up for truer and higher self
respect on Che part OF men themselves He
VIII show the emptiness and the sham OF
that sort OF gallantry which doffs It's hat to a
true and good woman and then goes and
trails ia own honor and virtue in the mlre
Ana ask sou, young men, whether you
would Ike that sort OF a man. Whether
you would stand by him7 Some OF YOU
would sneer at him and call him a crank ana
fool Tho idea OF man being as pure as
womani Well. why not7 One OF the most
piuable. most contemplate most unmanly
own oblquities by pleading the temptations
% which he is exposed. know the tsmpta-
uons TO which men are exposed and i know
ana you Know that whatever may be the
temptations you meet IN your daily life as
you go about your daily business-the temp
tations which floor You the temptatlons
which rob YOU Of your sobriety, your self
respect, your honor and your virtue aIe
es rule not those which take you unawares
D DSs sSSH Th' aay %h aSS SeSasss
you - not the spmpanys that seeks you but
the company YOU seek. The places where you
are unnamed are the places where you are
not called. ard where you have no business
TO be. but into which you voluntarily go
THEY ARE NOT TEMPTED.
There are young men who deliberately seek
temptation. fall under It's power and then
whine about tho temptations 20 which men
are peculiarly exposed. IL Ia unmanly and
contemplate. What would you think n you
SHOULD see your sister or your wife or dauRh-
ter entering a saloon by the side entrance
Tor women while you are going In by the
front entrance for menl You would stand
horribiel" And YOU would be right Your
wrong thinking Il evident when YOU Imagine
for her than for you. II may look worse but
II u no worse God has set up no higher
standard for her than lie has Tor you.
woman.s purity Is no more sacred In Gods
sight than a mans purity
IL Ia no more necessary for q man TO de-
bauch himself than Il IL FOR woman. Young
men should understand this and young won-
en- should understand II. too. The safeguard
OF our sisters. our wives and our daughters
lies IN their self-respcct, IN the value they
attach 20 personal purity. good eonsc euce
clear conscience. their sensitive recoli from
what is low and bad God bless them And
terrible will be the day when they lose one
whit OF that self-es;eem. And vet they
have allowed themselves 90 fall into the de-
fusion that Ices Is 20 be expected OF men
than of them. On the other hand men cher
Leas rule a sort OF reverential regard
iof woman's purity and nObleness but want
ing proper sef-reSpect they are less exactng
with themselves than they should be. They
DO not honor womanhood too highly but they
do not honor their own manhood enough. This
Is wrong thinking. IL is vicious and mis-
Chievous thinking. Antipas the Faithful would
protest against II. He would stand for pure
manhood as well as pure womanhood. and
the same unalterabla clandRrd OF morality Tor
both And he would De right
NEEDED IN POLITICS. TOO.
Antlpas the faithful Is needed in political
lie. What a STIR he would make n ever he
should get into the town counclli OF course
he should be laughed at called all sorts OF
names, but he would stand as he stood Of
old, one against all. DO not know any
place where the heRoc spirit % that old
martyr Is more needed than In the councils
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