The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-17
TALKS ON SOCIAL PURITY
DISPKRSE PART OF THE AUDIENCE
Nv Nh. CADMIN'S CHURCH.
Bolton Hall Recommends Patriarchnl Com
ditions rs n Corrective of Bachclorhood

Bolton Hall Recommends Patrlarchnl Con-
ditions rs n Corrective of Bachclorhood
Col. Alexander =. Bacon Says the
Anglo-Snxon Is Worse Than the Gaul.
The National Christian League for the Pro-
motion OF Social Purity had its annual
meeting last evening in the Methodist church
at Fourteenth street and Seventh avenue. The
church was filled, when the meeting be-
gan, with men and women. young and
old. many young girls. and moro than
the usual number Of young girls and
youths in couples. 1t was partly emptied
long before tho idea Of the league was fully
cxpounded. A number OF persons bolted in
continently while Bolton Hal was speaking on
Tho Roots OF immortality - and when Mrs.
Elizabeth b. Grannis. President of the league.
was talking. more than n score OF others in
both galleries and the body OF the house. as II
moved by II common Impulse. arose and walked
out.
Mr.. Hall said. among other things: I'VE as
citizens. and therefore members OF the Govern
mcnt. find placed before Il sthe fearful dilemma
either to sanction immortality or to wink at II.
He spoke OF the effects on the community OF
those who. resisting the impulses God has
put in them, refuse to marry" and continued:
1T is natural that a man should be attractive
10 a woman, n boy to a girl. the woman to the
man. 1t is not good for man to be alone It
il not natural for woman to be alone. And, in
fact, we shall find that it is impossible for them
to be alone
When we have a social system which gives
us large numbers OF young men unable to
marry and support families. aud great num-
bers Of Young women who are forced to work.
S emo Hh"1 To sn Tppk a them ,n ScI yes may sxcr to get ct
tho one side the eunp@yder and o.
come together, as in the whirl Of society they
must, We have the explosion called the social
evil. II is not the natural state that there
should be so few homes, so many bachelors
and so many unmarried women, j..
The restoration. he said. OF the conditions
known as patriarchal. was the only way to do
way with, what We know as immortality" He
didn't explain how far the patriarchal system
Mrs. GranniS said that what was wanted was
n c"nIngal affection which would give in one
generation practically a new race. She also
would he found to he woman's best friend.
The. Rev. 5. parkes Cadman, pastor of the
church. SAID. among other things:
The attitude Of Protestant churches toward
marriage is damnablc.'
In many Protestant. churches marriages
to-day must mako the devil grin in enviabIe
Two thousand young mon in New York
city go 70 the devil every year"
..aol. Alexander 5. Bacon of Brooklyn, said:
The Anglo-SaXon race IL going to rule the
world In this generation. But the Anglo
Saxon race has one weakness. social tmpurity.
naughty. When they do anything naughty in
Paris theyimmediatcly photograph it and putt it
in the windows 10 induce Amcricans to come
and spend money there. II Paris is a unit.
London. is ten. and If it weren't for an occa-
sional l.eXOw committee there is no telling
what this city would he"
tiles Of Fatherhood." He urged fathers. above
all things. to ,frown on indecent stories. He
also described what he saw in japan. and con-
Tenderloin.