Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-05-09

There arc no books published on this subject
meme touch on this sin. And yet all children know
its whole history. Mothers think they don't, and
therefore hope and try to keep them in Ignorance;
bat let the mother talk with her daughters Of ten
sno sv o. E snI ask v .ne% mna, .d 'h h
tingle with the things that child can teld her
knew pious family; there were three daughter
the mother wouldn't talk to her eldest girl about
this sin to her Of her danger because she said
she was innocent and ignorant. Alas! one day play
fa and blithe, and gay, and happy, and innocent
she was, she was seduced in her fathers barn, and
years Of age; the father Of the child was hired la
boring man, forty years Of age. ! knew another
family; they were rich; the mother was pieus
wanted her to give her lovely daughter books ON
Smith, my daughter il lovely and innocent and has
her own native purity to rely upon, and she wants
other defesce from the snares Of the seducer.
pute-the 6eiress Of s4OO c0O-ske was too good to
mngle with the common class OF young ladies' TO
20 to school; she had private teachers, at vast ex-
Pcnse 10 instruct her in deemed desirable
and they did instruct her; at the very time of that
conversation, though act twenty years Of age, she
had been privately committing adultery for six years
with one OF her teachers who was married man;
hist he teaching her to paint the beauties and
graces Of the flowers Of nature, he was despoilng
this sweet flower Of all her beauty and lowell
sess sfvrga purity and this too beneath her fathers
own roof! Mothers, take warning! Fathers look
selves! preserve your purity; preserve your weak
sisters, reclaim your erring sisters; do not be
ashamed to speak about 81 talk to another about
II and be warned Let every girl be told Of the sin,
Of its nature, Of its crime and its dreadful conse
quences Let the book stores sell books about IL !;
buy "Graham's Lectures to Young People," and d..
Woodwards Hints to the Young" and above all
don't forget Deslandre ON Masterbation. Above all
let oar parsons preach about Il; let them touch
the sin in the pulpit and not touch the sin in the
closet and so shall have less adultery, less seduc
l.. l. -. .f- IL
The Rev. Mr.. Cory, Of Salem, rose-In the pa
rish where now preach, In ten months there were
seven cases Of church discipline for one peculiar
form Of violating the Seventh Commandment and
word was said from the pulpit This was bad, and
in the next 10 months there were ID similar cases,
and the sin, sorry to say, is increasing in the
church! But my beloved sisters, how we to stop
lit That is the question, as Shakespeare says, and
one which you must find way TO answer. The
ramifcatiops of this sin most extraordinary. I
know gray headed adulterer, 20 years Of age,
Der Of the church IN town in Connecticut who has
been in the practice ri this sin longer and scduced
more young girls than any in the parish, and is
at il still lie Is not dealt with by the parsons be-
the parson says, "I dare not expe him or any
for this crime, because IL did should have 10
expel my whole congregation" Here's sad state
or things. There are 100 parsons in my county and
only preach on this sin, and that's the proportion
all over the world; to 100 preach against the sin
in practice II. (Here the ladies lifted M their
lovely eyes to the blue vaulted roof Of the church
and exclaimed I" shocking-positively shocking.'O
When studied at Yale College, knew eight
hundred students; of these | know that GOO made
periodical visits to New York for no other purpose
than TO break the 7th commandment; and yet the
pious and good pastor there never preached against
this SIM these young were guilty Of one or two
or three forms Of violating this commandment and
yet the parsons there thought there was no harm in
u; nay, II they were high spirited and generous
young men, the parsons and citizens, yea, and even
their wives and lovely daughters, seemed to like