The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-29
MEN WILL SHIELD
PURE WOMEN
SHORTEST ROUTE TO HELL
WILL ALWAYS BE GIVEN MAN WHO
VIOLATES wOMANHOOD.

81 DO Not Attempt to Justify the
Men Who Burned Sam Hose" Said
Rev. Lincoln Mcconnell, "but If 1
Had Been in That Vicinity Would
Have Been at the Fire''-Men Are
the ResrAks of Their Thoughts-If
Men Think Up They VIII Go Up,
if They Think Down They win
Go Down.
II do not attempt to justify the ac-
tons CT the men who burned Sam
, Hose" said Rev. Lincoln Mcconnell in
his address to men at the Savannah
Theater yesterday afternoon, but if
1 had been in that part of the coun-
try L think / would have been at the
fire.
II do not attempt to justify their
acts, but 1 tell you, men, that just
so long as there live men who honor
and respect and cherish virtue in a
woman, just SO long the man who
violates it will be hurried off to hell
by the shortest possible route"
At this point the speaker was in
terrupted by vigorous round of APP
plause. When quiet had been restor-
ed. he said:
II have expressed that same senti-
ment before an audience of Northern
men, an audience composed of men
who, by experience, knew nothing of
the South, and yet they applauded me
just as vigorously on that sentiment
as you have done. They are our broth
ers in feeling and sentiment on that
question and they will protect their
women as quickly as you do yours.
The incident for which Sam Hose
was burned was recited by Rev. Mr..
Mcconnell in illustrating a point he
wished to make in his lecture.
We Go the Way We Think.
Fully 1900 men assembled in the
theater to listen to the lecture on THE
Psychology of Sin, or Why the Boys
Go Down." The lower floor was COM
pletely filled and there were few va
cant seats in the balcony. Men stood
in the rear and sat in the window stills.
The service did not close until $50
o'clock, and yet the speaker found not
the slightest difficulty in holding the
| attention of his audience throughout.
The sermon was based upon the story
| of the Prodigal Son. The great point
in his career was that He came to
said the speaker, that determines
what we are. If you think up, you
will go up; if you think down, you will
| go down. The mind is supreme and I'M
less we have the thoughts the body can
not respond.
There are two standards of virtue
in this world-one for the men and one
for the women. God Almighty is not to
blame. | do not believe that He would
make two standards, allowing certain
| looseness in men and then hold over
them the threat: The wages of sin is
| death
BY our thoughts we have made two
standards. Virtue is held up as the
prize for women, as the great standard
| And it is undeniable that an uncleanli-
| ness is regarded as permissible for men,
This is not Gods law. He gave one set
| of commandments to govern both the
men and the women. He did not make
one-half of this population with one
| tendency and then damn them for fol-
| lowing it.
The Standard of ManIIness
The standard of manliness should
be as high as the standard for wom-
anliness. We have wrong ideas on the
SUBJECT. We hear of things and grow
accustomed to thinking of them, and
| then we begin to follow our thoughts.
1t is as true as any fact in existence,
and 1t Is clearly demonstrable, that as
| we think so we are. If we think
up we will go up; if we think down
we will go down.
"At college 1 used to think that it
was strength that counted. The boy
who could throw all the others, who
was the best baseball player, the best
runner, the hardest cusser, was looked
upon as man. So l began to develop
all my bumps, except the one upon my
head. | thought that would take care
| of itself.
"One day got to thinking. I dis
covered that / had been working on
the idea that hitting power was what
| made man, that real manliness was
hitting power. Then I thought some
! more, and l came to the conclusion
that if hitting power was manliness,
| that there was more real manliness
in the hind-leg of healthy mule than
in all the men put together"
Think as Mother Thought.
In closing the speaker paid beauti-
| full tribute to motherhood. He pic
tured the early days of childhood when
the boy ran to mother with every
thing, and closed each day by kneel-
| ing at her knee with the little child
| hood prayer. Gradually the child grew
away from his mother, and it was then
| that the going down began.
| You can tell where you have been
going" he said, "by thinking of mother.
Are you on the same plane as she is?
Are you thinking as she thought, as
she taught you to think? All, fear the
great majority of us are not looking
up to mother, that we having been 60
ing down from mother ever since we
started. The Prodigal Son is remem-
bered because he thought and acted
and returned. Won't you stop a mo-
ment and think, then act. and return
to mother and mothers God?"
The address closed with an eloquent
tribute to Henry w. Grady and vivid
portrayal of the distinguished orators
conversion. At the close of the lee
ture large number of men stood up
| for nraVerS