Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-10-17

led law of the kingdom of God
The divine law, In the first place,
makes no discrimination between the
masculine and the feminine sins. 1t
does not come TO man and smilingly
say, Husband, you have a right to be
a libertipe, while your wife must tread
the narrow path of virtue" 1t does
not say. Brother, here in the saloon
of responsibility you can get drunk,
but II your sister is found in that sa-
loon she will be disgraced for life" 1t
does not say that man can tell vile
stories and frequent the low race
tracks and be the companion Of pu~
gilistic thugs and dissOlute characters
and still be respected, while woman,
having done wrong, can never be al
lowed to enter again into the aSsOcia-
ton Of the good and the true and the
respectable But the divine law does
say this: 20 men, II the sin that this
woman has committed is to be punish
ed by stoning, every one Of you who
has committed the same sin deserves
to be stoned also" A blasphemy from
a mans lips in the sight of God Is
Just as vile and culpable as a bias
phemy from a woman's lips. The sins
of Ananias and Ahab are as evil as
the sins of Sapphire and Jezebel. And
yet from time immemorial the world
has always had two criminal courts In
which ii has judged its moral del1n-
Quents. The one is the court Of mer-
Cyl for masculine offenders; the other
is the court Of no hope" in which
lynx eyed Judge Hardheart sits upon
the bench, charging the jury Of mo
regrets" and sentencing woman de-
PENDANT after woman defendant to
life imprisonment in the "penitentiary
Of despair"
The rule is one condemnation for
masculine sins and another for femi-
nine. We all know that the pharisaical
ideas of old are common at the present
time. Indeed, go even further than
this. l sometimes think that, as far
as the world is concerned, many people
are prone to admire men if they are
not too good, If they have an immoral
besmirchment of their record. They
are not glad when they say, HE is
square, true man." but they are happy
when they can say, He is q wild fell
low, but mighty nice" 1t is on account
Of this tendency Of the human race to
judge mans sins differently from wom-
ans sins that we often find men in
public places Boosting of their evil
deeds as though they were the signs
Of true manhood and nobility. A few
weeks ago was riding in California
railroad train opposite two men. One
was a famous eastern contractor.
What was my amaZement to find that
his conversation was divided into al
most equal parts. The one was to tell
his companion the hard work he was
doing by the day, and the other was to
tell how many times he got drunk by
night and how he could outdrink every
one Of his business associates with
whom he was accustomed to deal. Had
any woman dared IN a public car to
| acknowledge such debaucheries every
| man, woman and child sitting within
| sound Of her voice would have looked
upon her as a moral leper, to be shun-
ned as much as the eastern lepers
who with sticks and stones are driven
forth from the tabitations Of man and
guaranteed by themselves as menaces
to the public safety.
Deal Justly With the Erring.
| The highest compliment which In
chivalric times could be given about 9
| father was, His daughters were al
| virtuous and his soDs were all brave
| But why should not the sons be virtu
Gus as we'll as the daughters? And
| yet, man-O bitter man, o censorious
| and guilty man-thou art ready to con,
denim thy sister when thou art not
ready to condemn myself. Joseph Par
ker in one of his great addresses de
| scribes q brother minister who had
driven an erring and yet repentant
daughter away from his home. JOSEPH
Parker pleaded and prayed with the
angry father to take her back. "Bur
she has disgraced my home" said he
Il cannot, l will not take her back.
But, man." said Joseph Parker, ''il
your younger days have not you your
self also been guilty of sin?' Yes
said the father, but am a man an,
she is a woman. The world Judge
mans sins differently from a woman
sins" That is So" said Parker Ma
/, judges mans sins differently from VIC
mans sins, but Christ judges both tn
sins the same. He that is without ST
among you, let him first cast a ston
at her."
Another characteristic of the divin
law is that it recognizes no distinctio
Of rank or station AS the divine lay
makes no distinction between sexe:
it also makes no distinction betwee
, the sins of the upper and the lowe
social classes. 1t does not have on
criminal code for the palace an
another for the hut. 1t does not hav
one for the wealthy Wall street finar
cier who manipulates the railroa
stock and waters it and cheats thot
sands of small investors out of thei
all, and another for the groceryma