Designing Women | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 16.

Designing Women.

An editorial in the Detroit News and Tribune, of March 21, referring to a certain church trial in Chicago, quotes a minister of prominence as saying that one of the trials of his career was to keep himself clear of the meshes of designing women, and even to avoid the appearance of evil. The Tribune intimates that emotional religion is “morally relaxing,” and again, that “the clergyman is the receptacle of all the religious vagaries that trouble the mind of women, and his counsel is in danger of becoming sympathy, and his sympathy of becoming carnal interest. On the other hand men who feel a softening of the religious element within them often seek out women for sympathy and this is dangerous. Prudent clergymen of course take care that they discriminate between symptoms in their fair penitents, and most of them require that a third person be near at hand when any really intimate conversation is desired.” These are principles that it is well worth while for any minister to take into consideration.