The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-11

IcOnditiOnS as ] have referred to?
Does not the largest support come
from the very people who often ap-
pear in public places holding high
positions, receiving the favor and the
aduation of the multitude? Such as
|thes would be the first to condemn
poor Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit, and all
such as have moved beyond the pale
of the, law. Why are such as | re-
fer to SO bereft of common sympathy
for their unfortunate fellows The
reason is thar they have lost the light
of their own divinity, they forget
that all humanity is Gods great fam
lily.
"What mighty change would come
Ito the world IL the men and women
of means and influence would find
their strength, their heart, and begin
to work conscientiously, to kill out
vice and in its place plant love.
Think of such an influence being
drought into the churches. Look at
the picture, my friends, OF all the
churches in the world opening their
doors every day in the week SO sac
redly lead the unfortunate to sense
of righteous living. Think OF the
splendor of all these churches De
ing illuminated by the spiritual light
of Christ, shedding its generous ra-
dance upon those who are despairing.
Yes. | say open wide the church
DOORS. keep them open from morning
until night evry day in the week;
bring the insanity and discouraged
to partake of knowledge, the redemp-
tive quality that will lead them to
find strength and hope in their own
hearts. Ii this we're done, what
glorious tribute it would be to the
Lives of those glorious teachers OF
1.-THE past who have sacrificed them
selves that humanity might be blest.
Depend upon 1t that those who are
to be helped would not be assured
lby mere professions of good will, by
prayers, nor by Bible reading, or by
being reminded that they are sim
|ners. Alas, through suffering they
lhave. learned to read human nature
too well, they know the dross from
substantial proof must be given that
the path openeI up to them leads to
a reel regeneration. and not to more
ridicule. criticism and failure. Siren
IuOus service must be given srch as
these, and hose who are to serve
lmust be fortified from the light with
lin their hearts, intuition must direct
la1J fhpir hn iet
work for humanity, one must be filed
with a superb and abiding courage,
an absolute love of sacrifice. The
picture | have made you of what
might be easily done / have distanced
from the Universal Brotherhood and
lTheosophical Society, trusting that
the churches might anticipate me, and
do the good work which the Theo-
sophical Society would have done
long ago had we had the support of
enormous donations and endowments
and hundreds and hundreds of spa
cious churches. Although our Organ
ization is but thirty-one years old,
1t would have accomplished stupend-
GUS work on the lines that have re-
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lendowments or churches IL It had
not been prosecuted, and prosecuted
from its very inception by some of
the very people whom am appealing
to. 1t was the sorrowing life of
Evelyn Thaw that opened my heart
to speak tonight. 1t is this that
has made me feel more strongly than
lever Dafnrp fha %
and heart in meeting the deplorable
issues of our modern life.
Christ said that Where two or
three are gathered together in my
name, there am | in the midst of
lthem,' and 1t is this power divinely
interpreted that must be evoked i'm
women, for the deeper and more Sill
peru instincts OF womanhood are yet
asleep. Their limitations are due to
many causes one; is the low standard
10 which they drop in adapting them
selves to the conventional forms of
lie; they are too much environed
with scletles and societies, clubs and
clubs. Yet the world Is better he
cause some OF these have existed
w h''N SNiucHcts IN many DllDlip
ways that woman is losing her power.
that many OF those gracious pifts
which nature has blessed her with
have been misused because she has
moved 100 far from her real place i'm
life; taking up the duties that Delonp
not TO her sex, neglecting the duties
that belong to her sex. Hundreds
OF men are on the downward track
To-Day because woman has failed IN
recognize her true position in life.
on! ye women OF our modern time
establish new life in tie home: build
altars of royal service there, and le.
the rfluence going out from these
brood owe" all who suffer; let the
shining example of your lives and your
loving charity FOR those women who
live In the shadows of their mistakes
uplht your fallen sisters. Seek to
prevent vice as we'll as to correct IL.
Through your efforts seek to reach
the professed followers Of Christ and
, lead them tc the light. Tneosonbv