The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-10

Plymouth church was filed all day
yesterday with women and men inter.
ested In the cause of purity. The ma.
tional purity conference began yester.
| day in Plymouth church, and closes
this morning. The presiding officer is
Miss Rose Wood-Allen, daughter Of
Mrs. Wood-Allen, Of Battle Creek
Mrs. Wood-Allen is national superin-
| intendent Of purity, but is very Ill az
her home. and her young daughter.
who is barely twenty-three years old,
presides for her, and discharges her
duties with grace and dignity.
AT yesterday mornings session Mrs.
l. > M Henry was seated on the plat
FORM, and DR.. Carolyn Giesel acted as
secretary. Mrs. Maria L. Clark, super
intendent OF w. c. T: U. purity work
In Minnesota, was the first speaker.
Virtue, said Mrs. Clark, sis resistance
OF evil" Mrs. Clark thought that one
/ thing that great care should be taken
/ about was the appointing OF the right
women TO the office of superintendent
| OF purity
In the discussion which followed, Mrs
! Webb. OF Ohio. thought il far better
! for a union 10 have no SUPERINTENDENT
/ at all rather than one not fit for the
I work She believed in an organized
! purity department, with ladies not nee
/ essarily members OF the w. c. T. U.
as members. She had found often that
women not White RibbOners would giys
their names TO this work
Mrs. Teats, of California. stated that
purity clubs had been organized with
good effect in California. She suggest.
ed that purity clubs be organized in
towns where there was no w. c. T. u.
; PURITY DEPARTMENT FIRST.
Mrs Castle. OF Ohio. thought the pur-
/ ity department was the first that
should be started and that IT was
easier to interest women in this work
than any other department of the w.
I c. I. u.
/ Miss Wood-Allen then told Of the
I aims and objects OF the White Shield
! society. of which she is national SUPER
I intendent. The girls joining this So
| ciety are required 10 take a five-fold
/ pledge, the first clause In which up.
| holds the single standard OF morality
| the standard which is alike for men
! and women. The speaker thought
] women were more responsible than
men for the double standard Of mo-
rality which exists.
/ Mrs. Webb, OF Ohio, had found II a
good plan TO incorporate White Shield
+ and White Cross work in the Christian
+ Endeavor and Epworth League socie-
ties. The White Cross society is for
men and corresponds In it's work with
/ the White Shield work for women.
Mrs. s. V. Root was the next speaker,
taking for her subject Purity Work in
J St. Paul" Mrs Root began by telling
OF the work OF the Young Woman's
Christian home. How II had been
started as a rescue home. bat had grad
ually become more of a maternity
home. although some rescue work was
still done.
She told OF the investigation made
( during Mrs. EdhOlms visit several
/ years ago and the outcome of that visit.
At the close of Mrs. Roots address the
ballot for women was suggested by IA
/ number OF delegates as cure for three
/ evils.
PAPER OF MOST INTEREST.
The paper creating the most interest
/ Of the day was by Miss Belle Mix. %
] Danville. Iowa Miss Mix said in part:
Numerous are the foes purty's defenders
have 20 face for the allied armies OF lust
aud LIQUOR have many a hidden recruiting
s-ation which white ribbon workers are
bringing into view in order TO destroy. But
( the chief base Of supply Of the frst named
/ forces Is rarely reported % the public ear
/ and even our great organization has not yet
had the courage or the united conviction
which would lead Il 10 lift Il up the definite
standard OF right; that that in itself would
prove a deadly pointer 10 this pool Of pollu-
/ ton. But before proceeding further let me
I recall 70 you the wise words OF our national
! superintendent Dr. Wood-Aleu: I'VE must
| come to see that life in all is relations is
/ a sacred a subject 10 be discussed with
| reverence and without embarrassment. Our
tongues have been bold because our thoughts
/ have been wrong" And would add, ais
/ because our deeds have been sinful for Il
/ there is any relation in life that cannot be
discussed with reverence and without embar-
rassment II is because that relation has be-
] Vrh oh mus ha r.nfvs I'D
out and put away before We can become
perfect men and women. according 20 the
Christ
Miss Willard referred to this phase OF i'm.
purity almost at the opening OF her last
annual address. referring 10 the twin re.
forms Of temperance and purity She said
because there are not yet wrought out into
success the world Is hewildered by crooked
! thought and besmirched by persmal I'M
cleanliness, the blows OF inebriete husbands
are falling on the bodies OF HELPLESS wives
and children. and the HOLES. thing on earth
/ the married love OF two is murdered by the
/ deadliest lust.
SAD CASES IN MIND.
Some time ago l was visiting a friend whose
4 husband was a physician with an extensive
/ practice. During my stay what seemed 70
( me 10 be an unusual number OF pitiful cases
/ Of impurity came to light OF public notice
/ One evening the doctor came In from his
| Office deeply stirred with sympathy for one
| grief-stricken mother who had called 70 SOC
.
! him In behalf Of r child whose life was
wrecked by impurity.
After he had spoken asked: Doctor
why Is II that such drea dful things are hap
pening frequently IN a community like
this, with churches, schools. and among ap-
paTently respectable people1" lie was silent
moment and then he seid slowly and with
the emphasis q nrra conviction: ''lt Is be-
cause OF the impure living Of fathers and
mothers IN the marriage relation" His dis
covery was akin to that OF Prof Lcstoe r
Muteh, the human scientist who declared
that the numerous cases OF hereditary ten
dency to prosdtuf on that he had personally
Investigated had given unvaryinE testimony
: 20 the violation OF natures laws within the
loga-ized atmosphere OF the marriage cham
Der.
Desire for parentage is pure and OF God
but desire for mere sensual pleasure IL for
lust condemned by Christ. and later by the
i apostle Paul. for In the 18th chap, 4th
/ verse. r v, We ind the command: Let
marriage be held in honor By aIl"-and fur
Their commands that the relation be unde-
fled. Nay there not be a striking between
the fact, hat the life o. the many IA con
z ferred through this parental surrender 20
/ unholy lust-and that other fact stated bv
Christ. that wide is the gate and broad Is
( the way that leadeth 10 destruction. and
many there are who 60 in there2t" These
E are literally born In sin against Ged-and
what wonder that their very nature rebe;
against him
AFTERNOON SESSION.
| In the afternoon Mrs. S NJ. S. Hen
~. OF Battle Greek, opened the meet
I ing with devotional exercises. Mother
/ Prindle. OF the Florence Crittenden
home, Minneapolis. spoke on How 70
/ Reach the Street Girl"
/ Mrs. Helen ID. Hartford spoke on
/ what might be accomplished through
/ the children She said there was hone