The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-22

QOW0 70 the pIeSous uAA0 NO OOuIN uOe 0uIA
fully say that our bodies were worthy to b,
called the temples Of God. She continueds
Westward the ..sr Of empire takes it
way' with ito ceasefess PROGRESS. The tide
of civilIzation have ebbed and flowed among
the peoples until they have now made thu
mighty cycle Of the earth. Tens Of thousand
Of gears ago that s'af and those tides eose il
the far-cf o1ients and their fesistless cours,
has not been stayed: now they break upor
the shores Of the occidenk China, with it,
tradition OF ages upon ages previous to TIME
as calculated by CHRISTIAN efas; and India
with its histories on stone, extending ever
millions Of years into the eternal past, giving
accounts Of great and good men, who lived
and ruled tor thousands Of years. must be &C.
cepted as the birthplsces of the present hu.
man race; at least until something is discov.
cred that shall tell who were the mound.
builders Of America, the architects Of
Stephens ruins in Central America, or the
artists and scientists who delved for copper
near the shores of the Northern lakes, to con.
meet them with these Asiatic sires. These
people left no traditions. No race that exists
now is either known or supposed to have de-
scended from them, and it is for us to believe
that they were swept from the face of the
earth by some terrific general calamity, or
else that they sunk out of existence, as the
races Of the world are now sinking, through
degenerate and.unnstural practices and lives.
A race Of people which does not constantly
improve. instead of deteriorating, must ulti-
mately become extinct.
The lecturess said that this race, which
now peoples the earth, was as certain to 90
down into darkness and be blOtted out leav-
ing nothing behind to tell the infinite future
Of its follies and crimes, il Il does not change
its course, as that day succeeds to night, and
night to day. Toe people of the earth, no
less than the earth itself were upon general
principles, one. We were great and glorious
people, bat what reason was there why the
same law of development, elimination and
dissolution that has governed the destiny of
all previous nations, would not alse apply to
this. From tine study Of history, we find that
we are gradually coming to that point in
America when the races will be blended TO-
gether and form ono grand and common
whole. There was not in existence in this
nineteenth century, . sound man, woman or
child on the face Of the earth to-day. Such
was the assertion Of the leading scientific and
medical men of the world. With all the
Christianity and the Bibles throughout the
land, We were not yet compelled to hang our
heads with shame, and acknowledge that not
one single body was worthy to Be called the
tsmple Of God.
Entering then in medias res she discoursed
upon the terrible effects of this lack of proper
attention to the divinity of our bodies. Re-
ferring to social evil and the mock modesty of
that . thorough change must be made in our
social laws before these ills could be GENE
died. She saids
ss1secent Investigations Of Sunafi0 ssyfums
has divulged the fact that the unfortunate in
mates were treatedworse than brutes, and the
newspapers Of the country havo 6entilated
the fact in no palatable descriptions Wheye
was the mother who dared to ask the eau s8 of
this terrible evi to tho world. They dared
n0es because these asylums stood al. q con-
domination Of every mother dn the qando Col
to the jails and penitentiaries and we would
find that nineteenth of alp the criminals in
the country we're children whose mothers
did not desire their birth. The women were
making fearful mistake in avoiding the dis |
cussion of this great question Of maternity
Looking over audiences every night from
the very moment peer into the faces before
me, can tell every gentleman in the house.
Nature is SO true to herself that she nevef tells
lies The true gentleman is permeated with |
his mothers purity. Il ) had before me to- 4
night men and women who were rude and |
vulgar, do not for o moment think they could
annoy me. know they would represent the |
mother that gave them birth. Theig actions 4
would say: II can not help myself; my.l
mother was o vulgar woman, and my father !
worse, and have to do just Is they do" They /
say do not believe in the sanctlty of mar.
riage. Oh, it is you who have made that /
fatal mistakes 1T is who believe in the sancti.
ty OF marriage, and you who do not When !
} boy is taught by his mother how he was I
brought into the world; how diyinely God !
has made hin that his body Is the temple of /
God, and should be kept holy and pure 90
from that moment he will shrink back in ave
It the responsibility of marriage. /
Mock-modesty in this country was then de. /
olored. When in Paris, Mrs. Woodruff was |
attracted by the beautiful statuaEy and elegant /
to nature She said, in relation
% this subject: found ladies and geptle men
Walking back ward and forward to view those
beautiful works Of art, and not vulgar word !
lid hear or blush did discover. Istepped
Up to one of the guides one day and asked
ann, =" How is it You sustain thing of this |
lind in Europe2" The guide replied, ''Our
people understand that yulgarity was not in
nature, but in the mind of those who thought
t" cultured lady or gentleman were in
apab.e Of making . vulgar expression. 1t
Vas the ignorant man and woman. who were
lot familiar WITH nature in all its grandeur, /
Who could 6nd gulgarity and obscurity in
Such persons are always looking
ut for something 10 be ashamed Of
Why, ! have seen q mother blush when
liking her baby boy upon her knee. Such
neither would not trust outside the door.
When this question Of maternity was fully
understood BY our mothers, from that time
70 shall have the curse removed that wasf
laced upon women in the Garden of Eden.
hat curse was gnorance. and from that mo-
aent The curse will b. lifted from her and