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Show The Helping Hand Y"Hl: professional iritics may find a mural lesion in the tmderwnrld. Sometimes those ishnutine; re.'lamatinrt of humanity the loudest are leaM inclined to help. he Hev. Donald D. Mcvart, held in llu I os Angeles county jail for marry-in? loo otle'i anJ fleecin his males of their moiu-v. pays trilui.' to the unj.-rworid. He says:' I Iim.. K.,i... .,,., nr. I f,,,m llm, I .,',. i,. ., . 1. : rwl ! !, 11 M,.n ul"' " I Oi i.n.l. rwnrl.l ,,f i. i:.. 1 . ...t . l.i.- .,,,,1 ,-,,,t ,.f K, it,,,.), ,. an. I nun, lim-llii - o, ,;. iu iii,ini ,.r o,-ihiir.h o,-ihiir.h wlm.r .,r.l,,, 1 taaail I..I Nl ,.n, f ,v flm k 1.1'mhI liy in. ,nv Iriiul,!.. I kloni. Iim lluia ,i,. mna.im-. .,f rn. ourm,.i,irnl nn.l fnrmllv t. xnr.l from Hi. ,.,1 r, a, h41H larnr. Ihal lh,. t ifi. uml.rw.irlU nav. ihk arMjt.,- hVirl Many men who have hc,-n down and out testify to the same tendency. It is one nt lif.-'s perplexities. The condition is tn he attr.huteJ only to lieiire to reform through preachment rather than lv example, hi the case of Stewart, he lost the respect of his flock, lie does not reason rightly when he says they deserted him. The fact of the matter is he deserted them. Hy his own acts he became attached to the underworld under-world so that the underworld in befriending him merely aided one of it. own. Hut it is not a'u.ns this way. Sometimes society by ii; coldness dnves a ood man tj the do. It i, ,.,rj f,,r society to forgive the nan who ha gone wrong. Still it should be easy to Kive the helping hand to the one in need who might le saved for the belter things of life. A Chicago woman, given an opportunity to pronounce sentence on her husband, sent hint to jail for nine months. If this practice becomes general some husbands may spend the rest of their days in jail. |