The herald., 1896-09-27
THE
Y. II. c. A.
REFORr1

Unhampered by sectartan lines. tnese
workers for the public good are ever
ready to adopt such measures as are
proven to uplift the fallen.
Whether 1t be the wayward youth who
seeks the protecting care of this band OF
brothers, or their unfortunate sisters
| who bless the munif1cent bounty OF
| Crittenton, there is one underlying prin-
| ciple of all reform, which has been sad
| ly neglected 1t Is the experience OF
observing people that. ever lurking In
the pathway of reformation. may be
found the unwelcome guest of tempta-
| ton, which is at war with their sacred
| pledge. No person can live correct
| life through force of circumstances
which conflict with the spontaneous pro-
duction of harmony. So long as the in
voluntary activities of the human body
remain 1.-The root of all evil" as well as
of good, all methods of reform which do
not embrace the adjustment of those
nerve centers, which nature has placed
"in sight" for the purpose of thus pro-
ducing a normal action. just so long
will their pathway to the goal of happi-
ness be strewn with thorns Of disap-
pointment, blasted hopes and danger of
backsliding to a worse condition, on ac-
count of the unequal strain to would
be balanced organism. Y. M. c. A.
leaders have already tested these solid
foundations of reform, and others are
investigating the progress of science in
their behalf. Perahps not less effort
will be made to lift the fallen, but more
attention will be given to those unnat-
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tion."
Practically unknown to those who
seek the uplifting of humanity by re-
form or education, and hardly dreamed
of by the medical profession, is
a system of minute nerves, which, al
though the total motive power of both
body and brain, are without feeling, and
thus unnoticed. Never resting, never
tiring, their unobstructed activity is the
highest ideal of physical and mental
perfection. When humanity shall be up
lifted by a release of these unnatural
fetters, which hold them in bondage to
wrong; when sickness shall be thus
treated by removal of it's mechanical
cause, instead of any person being
obliged to drink the dregs Of insensibil-
language is inadequate to describe;
when teachers shall demand a correc-
ton of the anatomy for all dull, peculiar,
crippled and specialized children; when
the cause of criminals shall be thus ad-
justed upon the line OF accountability;
when common sense shall direct good
people to cease their warfare with in
temperance, wrong, crime and sickness
and remove those unnatural conditions
which produce their kind; when all hu-
manity, not excluding the Y. M. C "A.
shall recognize the supreme intelligence
which placed this adjustable key to hu-
man machinery in full view, and shall
apply it not only to harmonize their own
lives, but to little children, so as to
remove the need of cure or reform, may
we be there to see."
LEWIS HOWELL ROGERS.
A CHALLENGE.
The almost magical cures Of paralysis
by dilation of the lower bowel have dis
closed the important fact that all pain
or sickness is simply paralysis or sus-
pended animation, and that nature has
thus provided universal specific for
disease, the same as used by all natural
tribes, who formerly maintained health
by vigorous expansion with the fingers,
which are ample for this purpose, as the
nerves thus acted upon force the blood
streams into healthy action. Likewise
the discovery that Jews do not get into
prisons or insane asylums has revived
the extremely ancient and much supe-
rior operation to which the Jewish rite,
which by thorough and careful retrac-
ton will produce like appearance with
male or female children, liberating the
tongue and mental faculties, correcting
those conditions which call for spec
tacles, and demonstrate, through more
reasonable actions the equality of sex
and general elevation of the race to
their natural condition above the SEN
sual, selfish plane of the animal Be-
lieveing that the Importance of this sub
ject warrants a permanent position in
every newspaper, we hereby offer gratis
one of our improved Sphincter Dilators
(Which retails for $3) to any paper
which will publish this challenge for
three months.
LEWIS HOWELL ROGERS,
4311s South Spring street,
Los Angeles, Cal