Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-11-08
INTERESTING DISCOURSE
ON SUBJECT OF PURITY
Young People of Grants Pass
Highly Entertained by Telling
Address on This Topic.

The Young Peoples Christian Ten
perance Union which WAS held in tn
M. 4. church in regular session,
program having been arranged for tn,
occasion. The most enjoyable portion
OF which was the instructive speech
of Dennis Stovall, which was sub
stantially as follows:
81 am h,re with no new nor won
derful story. What shall tell you
will be old, very old, but the truth
that it is old, aud has been told &C
many times, is sufficient proof OF it.
worth. l am told that my subject il
Social Purity. For my own conven.
ience, however, and to make it sim
pie for myself and for you, l shall
call 1t The Beau and The Sweet.
heart Problem
1t is just as natural for the young
girl to have . beau and just a. patural
for the young man to have sweet.
heart, as /. is for two dsisies to nod
and smile at each other as they bud
and bloom side by side in the
meadow. l had . sweetheart once, in
truth, several Of them, but only one at
a time. l was just years and 8
months old when had my first sweet.
heart. Her name was Sally. and she
didn't live in our alley either. Sail
and attended the same school away
out'on the Texas prairies She sat
just across the aisle, and she had a
very coy habit Of smiling at me from
behind her blue backed spelling book.
l remember how beautifully Sally's
red hair and the blue cover Of her
spelling book harmonized. Down
there on the Texas prsiries cyclones
were very numerous. Because of this
the school had Cyclone drill either
for practice or otherwise. every few
days, but 1t was usually otherwise.
The teacher would sound the alarm,
We pupils would jump into line and
see how quickly and orderly we could
march out and hide ourselves in the
cyclone cellar. One day we had
new pupil at school-little Jimmy
Jones from Maryland. That day a
cyclone was sighted of to the south
west. 1t was barring down with
mighty roar, uprooting trees and lift
ing houses 10 tho powerful sweep of
its twisting tail. The teacher gave
the alarm, we jumped into line and
marched iu quick time to the cyclone
cellar. But little Jimmy Jones had
never seen q cyclone before, and so
was not wise in the way of tornadoes
and 'cyclDe drill, so he remained in
his seat. When we emerged from the
dark cellar, nothing remained of the
school house but the floor and little
Jimmy Jones. There he sat at his
seat. calmly studying his speller II
a cyclone was not worth the trouble
OF noticing. Bot when we came up,
he looked at the teacher with serious
meaning printed on his face ana re-
marked: 1t was a mighty good thing
l stayed with er or we'd o. lost the
floor too. Jimmy Jones was the
school hero after that, and Sslly's
smiles all went his way.
"Yes, this thing of beaus and
sweethesrts Is as old as the world
1t had its beginning away back in the
Garden Of Eden when this old earth
was young, and before it was marr,d
aud scared by the sin of man. The
Garden Of Eden was garden OF love.
Adams first vision was a vision Of
love, q vision of Eve, the sinless
woman, Gods first thought for the
happiness Of man. And when Adam
wooed Eve the grazing herds left
slopiHg hill aud peaceful vale to listen
TO the wooing, aud thence them.el,rs
departed in pairs. The dove. heard
II and mated in the fields; the qusll
wooed his love in the wheat the
robiu whistled to his love in the glen /;
The lark was so brimful Of glsdness
and love,
The green fields below him-the blue
sky above,
That he sang. and be sang, and for.
ever sang he:
love my Love, and my Love loves
me.
"All the world was alive with love
and songs Of its beings. The music
OF Il floated from across the broad
prsiries and was waited from the
Jungle. II bubbled from the mellow
throats OF the mookingbirds and bobo-
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