The record-union., 1898-09-26
MRS. TEATS' LECTURE SERIES
HER TWO ADDRESSES HERE
YESTERDAY.
One Was to Men Exclusively, the
Other to a Mixed
49,
Audience.

Mrs. Mary E. Teats. Superintendent OF
the purity branch of the W. {. L. Y.
work, addressed an audience of men at
the Congregational Church yesterday
afternoon, her subject being Requisites
of Parentage." She told some PLAIN
and wholesome truths to her hearers
and made many telling points.
1t was not only a plea for purity IN
all things, but an argument in support
thereof that must have made deep
impression on all who heard her.
In the evening Mrs. Teats addressed
a large audience at the First Rapust
Church, Ninth street, between l. ana
M. taking for her subject, Ideals, or
Sowing and Reaping''
The highest ideal life, she said. was
that of Christ, and though Christians
had had that ideal before them for
nearly 1000 years, she doubted whether
majority had profited thereby sufh-
c1ently to make such a life their ll1e
Her work, she said had been to lift up
the fallen, and to guide the footsteps or
the pure. but that something was rad
1cally wrong with society was evidenced
from the fact that in the cities, towns
and villages of the United States oOO,-
OOO fallen women walk up and down the
streets and 100000 American sons slept
behind prison bars. The conditions of
society were such as to give poor pro-
lection to the innocent, and small hope
for the unfortunate. Under the silks
and satins and fine hats and gold head
ed canes was very sick form of hu-
manity, and to remedy the evil the
causes should be attacked.
The lecturer said that half of the
world knew nothing about the heart
aches and the heart breaks of the other
half. She had studied the other half,
and she had found none so utterly lost
but what somewhere in their soul was
one square inch of good soil, and she
had always found a way to stir it. She
had had persons object to her follow
ing rescue work, and ask why she did
not cOnf1ne her efforts to church work,
but such objections usually came from
persons no better than those she was
trying to rescue. She did not, she said,
believe in capital punishment, but if she
did, there was no man around whose
neck she would rather put the rope
than his who debauches childish virtue.
Mrs. Teats devoted considerable time
to the subject of moral training and
education in the home, and held that
crime sprang from the lack of such
training She would train the boy in
the same manner as the girl. and teach
to both the lessons of purity and honor
She would make the standard for both
the same.
Statistics gathered by the Police De-
partment in New York City, she said,
showed Of -In
fall from virtue graduate from the ball
room, theater and card table. She had
no objection to anyone preparing them
selves for the ball, theater or cardro0m,
provided they would get down on their
knees and ask God to bless the work
of the night, but that they would not
dare to do. She had never known the
person who could get up from his or
her knees and play high five or progress
sive euchre. Progressive euchre. she
said, progresses from the parlor 20 the
penitentiary She had long wished to
see a minister who had the backbone to
stand up and tell his flock the truth
about the ballroom, the theater and the
card table.
Mrs. Teats also paid her respects 10
smokers of tobacco. She recalled talk
breath was so strong from tobacco
smoke that it nearly made her sick. She
afterward found out that the Superin-
tendent of the school was also addicted
TO the habit of smoking Tobacco and
alcohol, she said, was deleterious 10 the
system, and she reverted to the biblical
promise that the sins of the parents
should be visited upon the children,
10 f11n
father was stepped in tobacco he could
not expect anything except that his off
spring should do as he had done.
The speaker said she had seen cigar
cites made from stumps of cigars
"snipes'-and when the boy got them
in his mouth and marched down the
street he imagined he had something
nice. She had also been in cigar fac
tories and had seen Cinnamon roll the
tobacco over their tongues; later. men
would walk down the street with those
cigars in their mouths and imagine they
had something nice.
The lecturer said that when persons
put their names on a petition to grant a
saloon license they parted company
with Christ. When the young men and
women of the land stand shoulder to
Shouluei' anu Aot pe4ofe, the saloon
would go back to its father who sent
1t. The reform forces, she said, are
crystallizing, and one of these days Cod
Will raise up Moses to lead the people
out Of the difficulty, and she hoped that
Moses would be drawn from the ranks
of the young people.
Mrs. Teats said she hoped to see the
day when every saloon in Sacramento
would have to go. She declared it a
shame that when persons went 20
church they were obliged to pass sa-
looms bearing the glaring sign Ladies
Entrance" showing that ii was the OBJ
ject to ruin the girls as we'll as the boys
of the land. She hoped that If the
church did not work with a will to