The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30

q dream Ol pOelIy.
"All thoughts, all passion, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of love,
And feed his sacred fame.
And the end the elimination OF love Is
marriage. This, the voice of God, is sec
onded by the voice of nature, and 1t looks
to the new little life as natural ana
blessed consI mmation. But that TINS IS Dy
no means the ideal for many who nave en-
tered the holy state. of natrimony is
painful and humiliatiig fact. How women,
in many other respects irreproachaple per-
haps, can become thus wicked and rebelllous
is passing strange. In the light Of the In
carnation surely a woman might rejoice in
the sacred lispings of the magic WORD
''The woman whose heart does, not melt
with tenderness merely at the thougnt OF
little arms outstretched to her IN the flrst
dumb recognition of her love should pc
spoken of compassionately as one VINO is
grievously aff1icted-one who has been de-
prived of the greatest good iE life.
Who among women would not crave the
blessed privilege of molding the tender
the the land? "All that / am my mother
and thousands more have said the
same. How the heart, after the cam
paign of life. vibrates at that gear, 50; sa-
devotion, love and holiness. BY night, by
day thy watchful care could know no Ian
guor or fatigue! These are the sober words
of children who rise up and call her
' PARENTHooD.
Children - so often to-day despised and
pronounced a great nuisance and incum-
brancei We must fight the growing spirit
that would relieve parents of the sweet
trouble that the children give" 1t Is a
dreadful thing to contemplate. this re-
pudiating the responsibilities of parenthood
this eliminating from the life of the peo-
pie the humanizing influence of the child
life. The customs and maxims OF the So
called reformers that would disparage and
condemn the old-fashioned purity which
ideaIized 1.-THE joyful mother of children
must be strenuously opposed, Tor back or
all is the badly disguised motive.
Children.-Here begins womans oppor-
tunity in this ''womans question. Guard
and guide from earliest years IL IS OF the
utmost Importance that first knowledge OF
all sacred subjects be impaired by those
who hold them sacred; mothers should
teach their daughters those things OF wom-
anhood that come best from fond ana pure
maternal lips That daughter euucauon
is sadly incomplete that lacks TINS essen
tial knowledge. Counseling LOT a HAPPY
married life the true mother Will say: Love
is a necessity. Learn to distinguish Pc
tween love and fancy. Never sacrince love
to wealth , or position Let yon rsh ntS
the bonds of marriage, enter them reVer.
entity, discreetly, in the fear or COO. Alas!
repent at leisure
o woman, faithful through evil and good
report true wfen all around are false, pa
tient amid suffering. poverty and loss
strive by every means, religious, polucal,
social to wipe away our reproach and dam
ger: for let us remember that the nation
life is threatened Home life and public
life are wins and this evil is sappIng
the life of the republici
o woman. glorious in thy beauty and
power, go forth to save the Nation! Urge
upon the moral sense of the people the
peril Of the hour Seek to reform public
opinion and the laws that are disgrace
to our moral code. Sweep away the loose
statutes of the several States and replace
them by a uniform national law, so that in
stead OF fifty different sets of laws, regulat-
ing or failing to regulate" marriage ana
divorce. there shall be throughout the land
a Christian. God-honoring law that VIII
stand forever.
Mothers, daughters, sisters, here is your
high destiny Here is a life work for ev-
cry true woman for God and home and ma
five landt