The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-23

that sin which the law Of God declares pun
ishable with death, death physical, death
moral death eternal and everlasting.
We note, in questioning the truth of DR..
Weith's message of warning against the un-
pardonable sin, the critic says. IF the Doc
tors words are true, then the religion of Christ
is without foundation"
DR.. Weith said that those who betrayed
virtue and those whose virtue was betrayed
were cast without the pale of respectability,
and that the woman could never come back
There is nothing in the religion of Christ
which gainsays the words of the reverend
speaker, while all of us, men and women,
churchmen and non-professors of religion
know that the woman who has fallen by the
wayside can never come back into social re-
spectability. AS to the justness or injustice
of this there can be no ground for debate
And it was to warn the pure young girls
those just budding into young womanhood
those passing through that danger period of
adolescence, that the Ardmore divine deliv-
cred his warning. 1t was to them that he
conveyed his message of the Savior "The
wages of sin is DEATH Most certainly he
did not say to them, as the Hugo writer by
implication would have him say, young
!
broken; the emblem of virtue is jest, while
virtue itself is a byword go thou into the
byways of corruption, drink deeply of the
waters of niquity, then repent, believe, ana
thou shalt be saved" And most certainly
there can not be found anywhere within the
Holy Bible anything which ntimates that the
SHINING woman will be held guiltless or per-
mitted to hold converse with her guiltless
cict h nod L,,x ~.,ryo
We are free to admit that woman's inhu-
manity to woman is the main stumbling block
over which trip the feet of the fallen sister
who seeks to recover the jewel which she
lost in the quagmires of lustful longings sat
isfied, and that was one of te arguments
brought forth by the Ardmore preacher when
he appealed to all women, to all men, to re-
member that 'broad is the way which
leadeth to destruction
Give the Clara Smith HamOn type a
chance, forget her fault, and she will become
a blessing to society and an ornament to
heaven" the Hugo critic says. Again we
agree with him, but in concurring with him
in those sentiments, we also concur with DR..
Weith and ask, "Who among you will afford
that chance? Who among you is there who
will take the wrOnged and sinful woman
(more snned against than SHINING, perhaps) ,
into the bosoms of your families, into the
most sacred inner circles of your homes, there
| to become the companion of your own inno-
cent and virtuous daughters?"
The Hugo writer, in another part of his
criticism, quotes from the Nazarne when He
told the woman taken in adultery, woman,
go thy way and sin no more" With the Ard
more preacher we ask you if there is aught
found in the Savior's message of hope to the
frail woman who lived and sinned two thou
sand years ago, which proclaimed to other
weak and erring sisters that intentional evil
doing would ever meet with condonement?
Society is a harsh mistress, one who rules
with a rod of iron and bears respect for none
who transgress her laws Even in the days
of old, unjust as this may be, society ostra-
cised, for are we not told that Joseph, the
husband of the Virgin Mary, carried his wife
away fro mher home that he might put her
away from her home, that he might put her
scandal should be stled?
The writer in the Southeast Oklahoman
in further criticism of Dr. Weith cites that
the larger cities are filled with institutions
which are in charge of those whose mission
is to befriend the friendless, to upift the
| iAieh' W icSiaim tHc cIIlHS anu W cueeT lne
faint of heart and weak of purpose, and says
that the Doctors arguments are nullified by
the work done by these good Samaritans
Again we fail to see that the point is we'll
taken. Again we fail to see wherein Dr.
Weth's discourse smacked of sensationalism
when he warned the mothers of Oklahoma to
guard their daughters, when he warned the
daughters of Ardmore to beware of the sweet
nectars, each drop of which is potent with the
horrors of a living death.
In closing his most unjust criticism, the
Hugo man says:
Preacher and professed Christians
1t would be profitable to bear in mind
that there is lot of psychology in
! preaching and talking in the light of