Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-13
Social Purity.

by Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, and says cit was
delivered with an imprisoned eloquence which
drew tears from the eyes of every listener
This momentous topic has been tabooed altogether
too much, and a travesty of modesty has caused
great misery. Let us teach the children
more carefully upon the truths about their being
instead of their learning in haphazard and impure
manner. The day will come when mothers will no
longer blush at innocent questions, the answers to
which mean knowledge and happiness to their chill
dren and not as now, leave them to grow up in
ignorance and misery
Mrs. Saxon takes advanced ground, and her
handling of this trying subject is as truly chaste as
it is eloquent and impressive. We can only give
few extracts
"THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"
A ship was seen sailing in the southern Atlantic
and making signals of distress. Another vessel
bore down upon her, and the captain called out:
''What is the matter?o
''We are out of water, we are dying of thirst
was the reply.
''Dip it up, you are in the mouth of Amazon
river" shouted the commander.
These men were pershing with thirst, ignorant
that the free, boundess, blue fresh water was all
about them.
The organized womanhOod of the world is in the
great expanse of boundless freedom in thought,
and act, if they choose to open their eyes, and
will find around them sympathizing and helpful
body of men and women, hungry for the life-giving
truth, as they are for freedom from sin and crime.
Since the coming of Christ, for two thousand
years we have preached Christ, and practiced Moses
in all our dealings with commissioning her to
death and letting the man go free.
Is all else to improve and progress, and woman
fear to enter her kingdom and lift marriage and all
its relations into spiritual condition?
Nay as God sees me, believe that out of the
madness, the misery and torment of greed drunk
enness and brutality, the strong angel is to brust
that will sme the shacEles from the human soul,
and through this uplifted seed of woman the she'd
ding of that innocent blood, the teaching of those
holy lips, woman will declare the whole counsel of
God. She will be pure for purity's sake, true for
truths sake, and putting off the fg-eaves worn in
the shame of a sin-cursed and bewildered woman
hood, rise in her purity to the full stature of the
heart of Christ; dare to instruct her children re-
garding the holy sanctties and secrets of mother
hood, and of sex; of the royalty that lies in the
bearing of children, that shall not find the mother
trembling before their eager, questioning tongues,
whose innocent queries alone can confound all save
truth alone. She will so train children to be men
and women, who would rather die than take the life
of the unborn-that renders the mother trembling
wreck, confronted forever by the ghost of her sin.
Then, indeed, will we enter our lost Eden again;
then will marriage be formed on the mental, the
spiritual, the physical plan the last too often all
that has been consulted in blind ignorance of the
spiritual law that can alone make marriage sacra-
ment
We have sowed the wind of ignorance we are
reapng the whirlwind, in divorces, rape, murder,
entailed upon children conceived in lust, and gas
tated with ifs noiuOn in every vein