Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-10-22

having done wrong, can never be al
lowed to enter again into the associa
ton Of the good and the true and tn
respectable. But the divine law doe
say this: 20 men, If the sin that thi
woman has committed is to be punish
ed by stoning, every one of you wh'
has committed the same sin deserves
to be stoned also" A blasphemy from
a mans lips in the sight Of God II
just as vile and culpable as bias
phemy from a woman's lips. The SIM
Of Ananias and Ahab are as evil al
the sins Of Sapphira and Jezebel. AnC
yet from time immemorial the world
has always had two criminal courts IL
which it has judged its moral delin
Quents. The one Is the court OF mer
cy" for masculine offenders; the othel
is the "court of no hope" In which
lyny eyed Judge Hardheart sits upor
the bench, charging the jury Of IND
regrets" and sentencing woman de
fendant after woman defendant TO q
life imprisonment in the "penitentiary
of despair"
The rule is one condemnation fol
masculine sins and another for femi
nine. We all know that the pharisaical
ideas of old are common at the present
time Indeed, l go even further thar
this. / sometimes think that, as far
as the world Is concerned, many people
are prone to admire men if they are
not too good, II they have an immoral
besmirchment Of their record. They
are not glad when they say, "He Is q
square, true man." but they are happy
when they can say, HE is a wild fel
low, but mighty nice" 1t is on account
Of this tendency of the human race tc
judge mans sins differently from won.
ans sins that we often find men In
public places boasting Of their evil
deeds as though they were the signs
of true manhood and nobility. A few
weeks ago l 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
~ hic httcfnaco Qonnoiofao with
whom he was accustomed to deal. Had
any woman dared in a public car to
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 habitations Of man and
Quarantlned by themselves as menaces
to the public safety.
Deal Justly With the ErrfnE.
The highest compliment which In
chivalric times could be given about a
father was, His daughters were all
virtuous and his sons were all brave,2 z
But why should not the sons be virtsA
GUS as well 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 thyself. Joseph Par
ker in one Of his great addresses de-
scribes a brother minister who had
driven an erring and yet repentant
daughter away frem his home. Joseph
Parker pleaded and prayed with the
angry father to take her back. But
she has disgraced my home" said he.
Il cannot, | will not take her back"
But, man." said Joseph Parker. '1n
your younger days have not you your
self also been guilty Of sinY Yes"
said the father, but l am a man and
she is a woman. The world judges
mans sins differently from a woman's
SINS" THAT is So" said Parker. Man
judges mans sins differently from wo-
mans sins, but Christ judges both the
sins the same. He that is without sin
among you, let him first cast a stone
at her."
Another characteristic of the divine
law is that it recognizes no distinction
Of rank or station. AS the divine law
makes no distinction between sexes.
It also makes no distinction between
the sins Of the upper and the lower
social classes. 1t does not have one
code for the palace and
another for the hut. 1t does not have
Dne for the wealthy Wall street finan-
cier who manipulates the railroad
stock and waters" 1t and cheats thou
sands Of small investors out of their
all, and another for the groceryman
who has false weights and never sends
4 full pound of coffee or tea or sugar
to his customers when they pay for
full pound. 1t does not have one set
of rules for the wife Of the millionaire
who hides her diamonds and watches
md jewelry in her dress to escape the
scrutiny Of the New York custom
house officials, which jewelry she is
to her American friends after
a European trip, and another set Of
rules for the newsboy who steals a
oaf of bread out Of the bakery wagon
when the driver is away selling his
goods at a kitchen door. In other
words, what the divine law condemns
n homespun it condemns in broad
cloth. When 1t says Thou shalt not"
70 the plebeian, it also says ''Thou
shalt not" to the aristocrat. What it
lenounces in the heart OF the serf
t also denounces in the heart Of the
'uler sitting upon the kings throne,
,r of the Judge sitting upon the chief
Justices bench Of the supreme court,
,r Of the premier governing in state
raft as Joseph did in Egypt, or as
Bismarck did in Germany, or as Glad
,tone did in the British parliament.
No Distinction Between Glasses.
Do you believe God discriminates be-
.ween the sins Of the social classesl