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

fill their little heads with right
thoughts first"
FROM THE QUESTION BOX.
The first question was ''Explain Gcd's
plan for the marriage relation" An
swer: Fifth chapter Of Ephesians"
Second question: Should the mother
have the children come to mothers
neetings?" Answer: 81 should not ad-
wise anything which takes the mother
from her children. but would suggest
the meetings have something interest
Ing for the children, 50 they may be
Thought TO them"
Third question: Should Christian
men or women marry those who are not
belisYers?'' Answer: BE not unequally
yoked with unbelievers."
WHY BOYS GO WRONG.
Mrs. Mabel L. Conklin. of Brooklyn.
n. Y, secretary Of the White Cross
branch of Purity and national organ
izer for the same, gave a glowing ad-
dress on Reasons Why Boys Go
Wrong" Mrs. Conklln has a large sym
pathetic voice and convincing man
ner OF address, which carries her hear
ers by storm. Her personal ma gnetism
IS very strong. She opened her re-
marks by referring TO the 18th psalm.
which she called the "Genidemen's"
psalm and sad should be put into every
boys room and written on his heart
Mrs. COnlSiin sale.
SETS FORTH REASONS.
pure neart is the keystone and a pure
character the archwAy to strength power
and the resistance of evil. The reasons boys
go wrong are:
n
who were suffering from habits OF drunken
ness and other evils 20 be Ranked by a whole
army Of. evil ancestors.
Second-Perverted appetite created nv an
unwise mother in giving her baby medicine !
and soothing syrups containing alcoholic mix
lures.
Third-Homeless young men.
Fourth-Vicious amusemen.s
Fifth-Imperfect home training
The remedy Is, promote the White CT 81
work for young men, make 70 first and last
You are working TO save the girls; but the
only possible way 10 save the girls IS to
lift up a pure standard OF manhood You
are lavish OF endearments for the Girls but
the boys have Just as big hearts Put arms
around them and tell them OF their sacred
relation 10 you.
Don't turn from any man, no matter how
low be Is. Remember he Is some ones SIN
And remember the boys who have no moth
ers and fathers.
d. L. Wellington arose and said
that he Endorsed every word spoken.
and there was no sweetness IN the girl
not 70 be found IN the boy, and no
purity 20 be demanded Of the girl that
could not be demanded OF the boy.
A MEDICINE CONDEMNED.
After a collection had been taken
UP Mrs. Conklin arose and spoke in no
uncertain terms OF the harm she held
had been done by the sale and adver-
Using OF a certain medicine. She said
among other things that the original
proprietor was dead. and had been
for years, and that the letters sent TO
the company by women from all over
the country were opened and read
and filed by young men
Some ons moved that Mrs. Dora
Webb, OF Ohio. be Instructed to dis
cover whether or not the law could be
brought 10 bear on this company for
conducting business under false pre-
lenses and 10 see how far the law
could interfere.
NATIONAL IMPURITIES.
The principal address Of the evening
session was delivered by the Rev. VII
bur F. Crafts. superintendent OF the
reform bureau at Washington, D. c.
He said:
Nations havs suffered from Sabbath break
ing and inieapersnee. but nc. plague will
send a nation quickly TO death IS I'm
purity IN this age we learn that nature
and nations 20 By law B&bylontan vices
will result il Babyioai1n decay. Babylon was
The Boston OF It's day, but Il was destroyed az
the time OF its highest culture. By the plague
OF impurity and Babylon went down 10
moral physical and political decay.
Then followed Athens. Within two hundred
years IL fell from its prs-emineree through
moral physical ard political decay. There
+ TIE same sad story OF Rome. At the
period OF its greatest culture II was filed
Eith crime and Il went down before the
vigorous and moral nations Of the north
me nude IN art destroyed Italy. and