The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-26
SOLDERING AND
SPREADING THE SALVE

We trust that we are actuated by Chris
tian spirit when we say that the time seems
at hand, that the moment is opportune for
the good men and women to apply the brakes
to the sob stuff, to come out of the trance
into which they have permitted themselves
to drift and to realize that while the Savior
of mankind gave his life for all the weary
and heavy laden sinners of the world, He
never sought to place premium upon crime
nor to weave .garands of glory about the
brows of the immoral
You are going to church today, the day
after Christmas, prompted, we hope, by the
purest of motives. You are going to church,
there to listen and profit by the words of
the man of God, as he tells you of the babe
born in the manger at Bethlehem, almost
two thousand years ago. You are going to
church today, you thoughtless youths, you
gray-haired men and women, there to listen
to the words of the preacher and to benefit
by his calculations of the teachings of the
man who died upon the tree of crime, that
you, each and every one, might have your
sins, though they are as scarlet, cleansed
to the whiteness of snow.
You are going to church today, we hope,
in order that you may be better men and
women, in order that your footsteps, follow
ing the actuations of clean minds, hearts and
consciences may walk in the straight and mar
row way which leads to eternal happiness
and everlasting life; you are going to church
today in order, we trust, believe and hope,
that your better selves may become imbued
with that sense of right and holiness which
will prevent your natures from giving way
To tba ptatiO of tho flash foundations
which would lead you from the road of vir-
tue, of purity and of morality into the broad
and perfume-scented highway which leads to
everlasting death and eternal damnation.
Such being the case, we feel that it may
not be taken amiss should we urge upon
you the utter impossibility of condoning the
immoral in man or woman without, to
dangerous degree, besmirching your garments,
your own virtue, threatening your
own lives with that taint which ever clings to
those who have strayed from the path Of
right to the highway worn by the footprints
of the countless millions of transgressors, who
have wandered from the teachings of their
sainted mothers, of their honest, God-fearing
fathers.
While it is all too true that the woman
always pays, while it is all too true that the
man is forgiven his sins, by the social world,
we hope that you will remember that con-
tamination will corrupt the purest-minded
and that while the woman who strays from
virtues path, the victim of the wiles of some
degenerate and unscrupulous man, is more to
be pited than blamed, yet even as we are
told by the poet, ''you may break, you may
shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent Of
the roses will cling to it, STILL" so it may
be written that the broken vase can never
be mended, while the undesirable odors
eminating from the apples of Sodom, will
cling just as persstently as will the scent
of the roses of virtuous life.
1t is all well and good for the sympathies
of the pure of heart and the honest of pur-