قراءة كتاب The Witch Hypnotizer
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themselves. Bosh! if a man has the elements of greatness he will find his place without all this self-praise.
For men to search their own glory is not glory. Proverbs xxv, 27.
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Galatians vi, 3.
Election day and no mistaking it; the saloons are supposed to be closed, but there is a back door to some of them.
It is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Proverbs xxxi, 4, 5.
Is it any wonder that the women of our land clamor for a voice in the affairs of state and nation?
But a woman's place is not at the polls. She can do more good at home in training the minds of her sons, the future voters, and in making her husband's home-coming pleasant, that he may prefer it to haunts of vice. And it is to be hoped that man through debauchery will not become altogether inefficient and make it necessary for woman to take the lead.
But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. I Timothy ii, 12.
CHAPTER XIV.
In the evening at that most entrancing hour between daylight and dark, when all creation seems in a dreamy mood, the Witch found herself at the entrance of a gilded palace of sin. A number of the inmates were flitting about the flower-laden, well-kept grounds. She approached one of exquisite beauty of person whose face was not yet passion-scarred.
She was dressed in some soft, flowing, white material which gave her more of a seraphic appearance than one of sensualism. The Witch asked what brought her to this stage of immorality. The woman's reply was that she had been reared in wealth, but her father through some unlucky speculation lost everything. She had never learned to work, but had been taught that any labor was most degrading, and she had not qualified herself to teach any branch of learning, never having made allowance for the swift wings of vanishing wealth.
When thrown on her own resources she was at a loss to know what to do, when a wealthy gentleman friend came to her assistance at the sacrifice of her honor.
He soon tired of her, however; her father had died broken-hearted, and her mother was staying with a distant relative who had kindly offered her a home.
The Witch persuaded her to leave this life of disgrace, to learn honest work and brighten her mother's remaining years.
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. II Timothy ii, 15.
She said that it would be hard for her to face the world with this stigma of shame on her character; that all those bearing any claim to respectability would scorn her.
The Witch told her that God was judge and not the people, and their lives were not altogether blameless.