Milford chronicle., 1904-10-21

led law Of the kingdom of God.
The divine law, in the first place
makes no discrimination between tn
masculine and the feminine sins.
does not come to man and smilingll
\ say, "Husband, you have right to b,
a libertine, while your wife must treal
the narrow path of virtue" 1t doe
not say, Brother here in the 'salooI
Of respectability' you can get drunk
but if your sister is found in that sa
loon she will be disgraced for life" f
lOes not say that a man can tell vii,
stories and frequent the low race
! tracks and be the companion Of pu
/ glllstic thugs and dissolute characters
\ and still be respected, while a woman
having done wrong. can never be al
] lowed to enter again into the assOcia
tion Of the good and the true and the
! respectable. But the divine law does
/ say this: 20 men, if the sin that this
woman has committed is to be punish
ed by stoiSing, 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 culpHble as a bias
phemy from a woman's lips. The sins
of Ananias and Ahab are as evil as
the sins of Sapphira and Jezebel. And
yet from time immemorial the world
has always had two criminal courts in
which it has judged its moral delin-
Quents. The one is the court of mer-
cy' 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-
fendant after woman defendant to
life Imprisonment in the 'penitentiary
IF despair"
The rule is one condemnation for
masculine sins and another for femi
nine We all know that the pharisaica.
ideas of old are common at the present
time. Indeed. | 20 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
beSmirclment of their record. They
are not glad when they say. He is
square, true man." bat they are happy
when they can say. He is Il wild fel-
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 lind men in
public places bOasting Of their evil
deeds as though they were the signs
Of true manhood and nobility. \ few
weeks ago l was riding in California
railroad train opposite two men. one
was famous eastern contractor.
What was my amazement to find that
his conversation was divided into al
most equal parts. The one was to tell
doing by the day. and the other was to
tell how many times he got drunk by
night and how lie could Outdrink every
)ne Of his business associates with
whom he was accustomed to deal. Had
my woman dared in a public car to
acknowledge such debaucherles every
nan, woman and child sitting within
sound of her voice would have looked
lpon her as moral leper, to be shun-
led as much as the eastern lepers.
Who with sticks and stones are driven
Orth from the habitations Of man and
Iuarantined by themselves as menaces
o the public safety
Deal Justly With the ErrinE.
The highest compliment which in
hivalric times could be given about a
ather was, His daughters were all
'irtuous and his sons were all brave"
But why should not the sons be virtu-
Dus as well as the daughters? And ,
'et, man-O bitter man, 0 censorious /
md guilty man-thou art ready to con- I
lemn thy sister when thou art not
eady to condemn thySelf. Joseph Par
Ter in one of his great addresses de
crbes Il brother minister who had
lriven an erring ana yet repentant
away from his home Joseph
'arker pleaded and prayed with the
ngly father 70 take her back. But
he has disgraced my home" said he
l cannot | will not take her back"
puts uliH' Sttlu dOSelu IdEkeF, IN
our younger days have not you your
elf also been guilty Of SIM" Yes"
aid the father, but | am man and
he is woman. The world Judges
mans sins differently from a woman's
ins." THAT is So" said Parker. Man
Judges mans sins differently from wo-
mans sins, hut Christ Judges both the
ins the same. He that is without sin !
lmong you, let him first cast a stone
It her."
Another characteristic of the divine
lw is that it recognizes no distinction
f rank or station. As the divine law
makes no distinction between sexes. !
also makes no distinction between !
he sins Of the upper and the lever .
Ocial classes. 1t does not have one
riminal code for the palace and ;
mother for the hut. 1t does not have ,
ne for the wealthy Wall street fnan-
ier who manipulates the railroad
took and waters" it and cheats thou ,
auds of small investors out of their .
Il, and another for the groceryman ,