Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-04-04

the law than of the former. Many
man and many woman who would
not dare to go the full length of open
evil, will do themselves real damage
and endanger the safety of their i'm
mortal souls through the harboring
OF ungodly. sensual thoughts And
OF two things I am very positive of
which the first is this: that it is hard
er to keep the mind clean than to re-
frain from outward evil: and the Sec
ond is this, that pure thoughts will
induce and produce uprightness of
act. If as James said, it is easier to
control horse than the tongue, am
sure that it is easier to control the
tongue than the mind. And the truth
of God is this, that steadfast endeav-
or for purity of heart and mind will
meet with sure success and will as
sure nobility of action
We need a sanctified purity of
life. I am disgusted and would
be disheartened, did I not trust in
God, over the amount of unblushing
criminality see and meet in my per-
sonal experiences. Men who are sure
that immortality is fair for men but
woefully wrong for the wives of men
Women who boast that the men they
know have seen the seamy side OF
life and who love them better for it.
Mere girls who think that the only
way to reap wheat is to sow wild oats
"a theory that only works in the
seeding and harvesting of sin. Moth
ers and fathers who are so lost to
shame that they desire their sons to
indulge themselves in a little of all
sorts of evil that they may be men of
real experience. Such nonsense as 1t
| is, and oh! the folly of it all. For
sooth the only way to cleanliness of
heart is through the depth of sin
they would have us think. The only
| way to Christ is through the depths
| of hell.
It is not so. know ignorance is
not necessarily virtue. And con-
trariwise, I am heartily in favor
! of the proper and godly instruc
tion Of our youth of both sexes upon
the mighty and central truths and
mysteries of human life. But the
! true way to wisdom is not through
vicious and degrading personal ex-
perience with sin, but rather at our
knowledge is through the true and
noble teachings of men and women
whose experience is untouched with
sim No man is better man because
he has drunk the cup of sin to the
| dregs The only experience that is
| eternally worth while is the expert
ence that is good, upright, inspiring.
Resistance to temptation is of much
value to give power; but fall into
sin does no man the highest good
We want to insist that morals
are most of Importance in this
world No unclean man deserves the
hand and the loyalty of pure wom-
an. None but the clean deserve the
fair. The man of unchaste life de-
serves ostracism as much if not more
than the woman who has sinned.
Those fragrant pOlygamists who
fiaunt their sin before our faces un-
der the guise of legal marriage de-
serve our scorn no less than does the
polygamy of Mormonism. The man
of unclean life has no right to the
/ hearts of the true wOmanhoOd OF this
country, and for my part were l
woman I would rather live and Ole
unmarried and earn my bread by the
sweat Of my brow than to risk my
earthly happiness into the hands OF
any man of immoral life, no matter
what his wealth, position or ability
might be. The womanhood OF this
country should preserve the virtue Of
this land and should put premium
upon nobility of character and saEct1
ty OF life.
The need to-day is not so mucf
for schools for the culture o.
! the intellect and for instruction