The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-14
TO men
AS PROTECTORS
Young Women Demand Reverence
Declares Rev. Eldred

by showing a young woman rever-
enee, respecting her modesty and hon
oring ner self respect. young men be-
come projectors Of young women" de-
clared Rev. VI. NJ Eldred at the Iaur-
ium NJ. f.. church in the last of a ser
les of sermons on Social Purity"
The theme ot the discourse was The
Young Man as Protector of Young
Women deduced from the text Ruth
:: Ia Let her CLEAN even among the
sheaVes ana reproaCh her not"
Continuing. Rev Eldred said:
The book of Ruth is one of the
most charming IN all literature. The
story IL relates il, IN outline. very
simple one; Yet rs,e and there it re-
Neals exceedingly ware touches of
beauty and pathus.
In time OF famine an Israelite with
his wife and two sons went To dwell
in the land of Moab. and there the
two sons took upto them as wives
daughters Of the land of Moab. But
IL was also land of sorrow: for ere
the new day of happiness had touched
noon the sun went down and it was
night-the father and both sons We're
dead
Th" aged widow prepares to return
unto her own land, and would take
leave of her daughters in law. Orpha
hA, In l..
ed unto her people and her gods But
Ruth said 'Intreat mo not To leave
thee or To return from following after
thee, for whittier thou goest | will go,
and where thou lodgest | will lodge.
Where thou diest will ] die and then
will | be buried; the Lord do so Ia me
and more il ought but death part me
and thee
The aged Noami accompanied by
Ruth returns To the land of Israel.
"Noami and Ruth ar" now settled in
the old home i'm Bethlehem. But they
are poor and the matter of gaining
livelihood stares them in the face.
once mere Ruth comes To the rescue
with the proposition that she go into
the fields and CLEAN. Noami directs
near kinsman of her departed husband
She goes To the field To CLEAN. and
Boaz. the great hearted Christiag
gentleman that he was, seeing her in.
purity and beauty of charac-
ter. said To his men: Let her CLEAN
oh
ler not
THE words ana acts of BoaZ are,
therefore,, just such as Ruth needs To
protect her in her desolate condition.
In the fields, as on the highways,
she Is At the mercy of the world In
suits may come Ia her. or injury. or
destruction itself. With fear and
rembling she looks out upon friend
ess world but happily Ruth finds in
3caZ a true friend. BCaZ, therefore,
tands as the true protector of women.
{ is To all men. hut 10 young men In
PARTICULAR, that ! desire To hold up !
soaz as an example.
But someone is sure Ia ask: is !
here need of such an example, ! |
,clieve there is. Because of social |
ustoms and conditions which exist |
nd have always existed women need |
he protection of brave, true hearted |
nen, against insult and injury.
Il am glad To believe that there are
n this land of ours. thousands OF !
rave, true men who are ready To de
end and protect, not only their own
listers. but every true woman because
he is woman.
But. true as this is, there are other
thousands OF men who DO not act as
he defenders of women. bat as de-
eiversI betrayers. murderers; and
re ready To insult her with the deep
st insults and trample on all that is
DIV and sacred To her.
such men are traitors Benedict
.rnold turned traitor To his country.
nd received for his villainy few
thousand dollars in gold. Black as
,as his crime, | place in the same
t the personal appearance of Jesus
hrist, but who can forget the port