Connecticut western news., 1904-10-20

which 1t has Judged It's moral del1n- quents. The one is the court of mer- cy'' for masculine offenders; the other Is the court of no hope" in which lynv eyed Judge Hardheart sits upon the bench, charging the jury of mo regrets" and sentencing woman de fendant after woman defendant to a life imprisonment in the ''penitentiary of despair"
 The rule Is ono condemnation for masculine sins and another for fcmi- nine. We all know that the pharisaical Ideas of old are common at the present time. Indeed, l go even further than this 1 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 a wild fel- low, but mighty nice" It 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 1 was r,ding i'll 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 l,{c tI,o y<,,Iy l,o doing by the day, and the other was to tell how many times he got drunk by night and how he could outdrtnk every one of his business associates with whom he was accustomed to deal. Had any woman dared in a public ear 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 habitations of man and quarantined by themselves as menaces to the public safety.
 Deal Justly With the Firing.
 The highest compliment which in CulNdIIIC llllSS COulu Ut RlNeu uDOuL d father was, His daughters were all virtuous and his sons were all brave" But why should not the sons be virtu- ous as well as the daughters? And yet, man-O bitter man, O censorious and guilty man-thou art ready to con- demn thy sister when thou art not ready to condemn myself Joseph Par r. f,, NRI I,le T T IL scribes a 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. But she has disgraced my home," said he. 'I cannot, I will not take her back" "But, man." said Joseph Parker. 'in your younger days have not you yourS. self also been guilty of sin?' sA9es," said the father, but I am~s>fhan 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 .d at her."
 Another characteristic of the divine law is that 1t recognizes no distinction of rank or station. As the divine law makes no distinction between sexes, 1t also makes no distinction between the sins of the upper and the lower social classes. It does not have one criminal code for the palace and another for the hut. It does not have one for the wealthy Wall street f1nan- cier who manipulates the railroad stock and waters it and cheats thou sands of small investors out of their all, and another for the groceryInan who has false weights and never sends 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 and jewelry in her dress to escape the scrutiny of the New York custom house officials, which Jewelry she Is bringing to her American friends after Q European trip, and another set of rules for the newsboy who steals loaf of bread out of the bakery wagon when the driver is away selling his goods at kitchen door. Tn other words, what the divine law condemns in homespun it condemns in broad cloth. When it says "Thou shalt not" to the plebeian, 1t also says 'Thou shalt not" to the aristocrat. What 1t denounces In the heart Of the serf It also denounces In the heart of the ruler sitting upon the kings throne, or of the judge sitting upon the chief justices bench of the supreme court, or of the premier governing in state craft as Joseph did in Egypt, or as Bismarck did in Germany, or as Glad stone did In the British parliament.
 No Distinction Between Classes.
 Do you believe God discriminates be- tween the sins of the social classes? If you do, let me by the scene of my text disabuse your mind of that sur mise. Come, let us push our way through the multitudes crowding in the temple and find out who compose ludl SECup. w no dEe luOSe SLTOnS, uue looking men standing in front of Christ? They are not insignificant clerks They are not laborers or farm CTS who have come into town with dust begrimed clothes. They are not hirelings or beggars or men and wom- en who from perpetual movings have become tramps and vagabonds. Most of that group just Ill front of Christ have keen intellectual faces. They have in their physical movements the actions of successful men. They have in the glance of their eyes the search Ing power which bespeaks command. Those men," wrote Dr. Strong, 'were the scribes. They were the doctors of the law and the interpreters of the Scripture" These other men are the Pharisees. They were so particular to keep themselves outwardly unspotted from heathen customs that they car ried extracts from the Hebrew law about with them in little boxes or phylacteries. They had these boxes