The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-23


during her stay. There are few
women who would be able to summon
the courage to stand before mixed
audience and give that lecture. In
deed, the speaker said it was long
time before she could do it. But her
facts and theories we're SO skillfullv
and ingenuously clothed in words that
no one could take exception, particu-
larly when her great earnestness and
conscientiousness were taken into &C.
count She said that RIGHTEOUSNESS
was on the increase and that there
appeared to be conspiracy of silence
in regard to it. She had statistics,
procured from physicians, magistrates,
teachers, parents, servants and chill
dren, which showed what proportion
of girls and boys between ten and
twenty we're impure, and said the
alarming number was the natural re-
suit of q birthright. She claimed that
the mysteries OF life and the bodily
functions should be early explained to
children and the sacredness of such
things profoundly impressed upon
them. Nothing in nature can be
wrong, and the divine programme of
creation and life should be understood
by ALL Parents should enlighten chill
dren in this respect, but in such q
manner as to make its sacredness ap-
parent. Marriage relations we're regu-
lated by divine law. The object,
according to scripture, is, among other
things, to perpetuate the race. The
creative power is the most sacred given
to mankind and should never be used
except in obedience to the command to
multiply and replenish the earth. The
simple satiation of the lustful appetite
is sin against high reason and one
which is visited upon posterity. 1t is
against the law of God and man to
take prenatal life, and it is equally
sinful to prevent the comforting of life.
It is using sacred power, ,granted for
single, given purpose, to satisfy the
sexual appetite. There is no motto,
no sentiment, so dear to the true wom-
an as mother, home and heaven,
and the prospective mother should per-
form no act and have no thought other
than such as will mould the life that
is to come into the highest type of
physical, mental and moral perfection.
Those best qualified to judge say with
out qualification that the absolutely
pure life of the celebate is conducive
to both health and longevity. This
lecture has been the "talk of the town.
and while it is subject that very few
had ever considered, the theories OF
Miss Nix seem to meet with universal
endorsement and favor. One can not
help admiring the courage of this
young woman who, Indifferent to the
frowns and SCOTS of an unsympathetic
world, keeps battling with uncompro-
missing vigor and determination fol
what she believes to be right.
The white-ribboners will be long re-
membered by all who saw and heard
them and by no one longer than the
local clergymen. The ideas of the
latter we're shaken up as though q
charge of dynamite had been exploded
Immediately under the receptacle oil
their gray matter.
While speaking of minister's will
some one explain by what special pre-.
rogative minister, especially Meth.
odist minister, while listening to a
lecture, persists in manifesting his ap-
proval of this or that sentiment by
yelling out a stentorian "Amen." The
lecture and sermon above mentioned
we're given in Methodist church, and
there were several ministers of that
denomination in the audience. From
beginning to end these ministers per
sistently annoyed the audience ano
speaker by yelling "Amen!" eyes
Yes-the Lord be praisedp' "Glory t