The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-10
.PLAM STARTLING FACTS
Told 10 Relation. to the Sin Of
Unchastity.
TO AN AUDIENCE OF MALES
Meeting In Trinity Lutheran Church Ad-
dressed by Mayor conncll. Or. W.
w. Ives and DR.. L. NJ. Gates.
Meeting for Women Tonight.


w. w. Ives and DIR. L. NJ. Gates. The
meeting was for men only. Tomor-
row night the subject will be discussed
before women by Mrs. Frances B
Swan and DR.. Anna c. Clarke.
Those present last night were mostly
reputable men who came for informa.
tion rather than for the need OF warn
ing against impurity. The majority
of them were Of mature years, but there
We're a number Of younger men and
youths who possibly might have profit.
ted by what they heard
Mayor Conhell spoke on "Unchastity
as Civil Crime" DR.. Gates on "Cul-
tivation of Personal Purity" and DR.
Ives on "Unchastity as Revealed to
the Physician" The two first men,
toned addresses are appended nearly
In full. Unfortunately DR.. Ives re-
marks cannot, for obvious reasons, be
reproduced. He told some startling
and plain truths from a physicians
standpoint Rev. W. H. Stubblebine. OF
Calvary Reformed church, opened the
meeting with a scripture reading and
prayer.
Mr. Miller introduced Mayor Connell
as one whose principles Of integrity
and honor in private life have been
carried by him into his public Office"
Remarks Of Mayor Conuell.
Mayor Connell introduced his remarks
with a reference to the decay of the
Roman empire. which was largely due
to the personal and sensual corruption
of its officers and people, after a long
period of good morals. and during
which the empire had fourished. Sim
liar reference was made to the history
of the Jews according to the old tesla
ment and to a vicious law passed In
England during the seventeenth CEN
tury granting certain sum OF money
to mothers for the birth of every
healthy, well-formed child. The inter-
est of that legislation was to stimulate
a population which had been decreas-
ing. The result was a frightful period
of immortality and pauperism. Mayor
Connell then said:
We are asked, owing to the laws regu-
lating many and prohibiting some OF the
forms Of vice and iniquity. why they are
not enforced more rigidly, so that We
might no longer be necessitated Of coming
in contact with these various forms OF
wickedness that are a stencil In the nos
trils of decency. A writer has well said
1.-THE enforcement of law does not pre-
vent the repetition of the crime;" We must
agree with him when we remember the
experience of the Roman governor who
wiped from the dockets three thousand
charges for adultery because, that, not
withstanding the punishment meted out to
the offenders, In Rome, adultery was on
the increase.
Something Beside Law Needed.
We need something else besides law; we
need to have more attention paid to our
boys and to our girls; more care exer-
cised upon the part Of the parents. in the
selection of their companions: a little more
interest shown by these fathers and
mothers where they boys are spending
their evenings; little more care on the
part of the mother as to the conduct Of
their girls upon the streets, to see to It
that their girls are not talking to young
men and having them as their companions.
whose very contact brings contamination
and oft-times leads to their downfall.
We need fathers. who. by their own
lives. by their positive belief in a per-
sonal savior are beacon light to the way
on the sea of life, unfamiliar with its
temptations, subject to the allurements
of the gilded hells of wickedness, can re-
pei that temptation and say my fathers
God Is my God" and then our youth
will be strong and fair to look upon, and
the sins Of the fathers will not be visited
upon the children to the third and fourth
generations.
I am not a pessimist. believe that Just
as Christianity is extended in land Just
SO much Is personal purity brought into
evidence And as I know that the re-
ligion Of Christ has made gigantic strides
forward In the past century, Just so do
believe and know that the world Is
purer and better than 1t was.
Morality Stands for strength.
The mental and physical strength OF ma
tions as we'll as Of individuals. is indica-
tive OF the degree Of morality observed.
stands for morality and
stands for strength. The rela-
tive political greatness Of the nations OF
the world at the present time will bear
witness to the truthfulness Of this in
ference.
The fact of the demoralizing effect of
upon the character of any
peoples, whether considered broadly as
nations. or more directly as municipal
Is too generally conceded to
1ecessitate any substantiation. The i'm
moral and impure person Is invariably q
menace to the welfare Of any community.
This danger to society through the pres
,nce Of immoral characters in its midst,
ioes not always or even generally lie in
he acts committed by such persons while
n the pursuit Of the qualification Of their
,aser instincts. The individual whose
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! crime against the person Of another, will
n all probability commit a number Of
subsequent crimes against the property
" others. The mind has become so cal
oused through the life Of immortality upon
which the body has fed, to all questions Of
light or wrong, that the unhappy. posses
Ior Of such mental equipment, at once
,nters the ranks Of our professional crim-
mails.
The great agencies devised by man and
Sod for the prevention of this as well as
III other classes Of crime, are law and
'eligion.
Mission Of the Church.
The province of law has to deal more
with the punishment of crime,
Ind hence comes In contact with the VIC
i'm after he has evolved into a criminal.
rhe mission Of the church Is to hunt out
nose whom Inclination or circumstances
eem to have fitted for a life of crime,
md turn them from the false course
There Is the greatest need that these great
lRencies, the law and the church, should
lfford each other the most hearty CO.
'peration; the church to prevent, to
persuade. to guide by all the sweet and
loly influences taught us by Christ of
Nazareth. The law to meet out lust
md certain punishment to the perverse-
y criminal. Both Of these agencies are
necessary to the life and government Of
ociety, but Of the two the church II Of
ar more Importance to human happiness
han the law. An increased activity by
he church means a decrease in the crimes
With which the law has TO deal, but great
r severity Of law does not mean greater
ef0rm for the church.
Through the channels Of the church
must be attacked the great problem Of So
ial purity. BY the precepts Of divine ex-
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