The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-12
PLEA FOR PHRENOLOGY.
A Woman Tells of It's Christianizins
influence.


To the Editor of the GIob e-"Choose
We this day whom We will serve,
whether Christ or the Church, for We
cannot serve God and Mammon."
In behalf Of suffering humanity to
whom 1 .gratuttously devote my life, and
whose elevation can come only through
that higher education which teaches self
knowledge, self-control; and because of
a practical understanding CLEANED from a
life long experience Of the ChriStianizing
influence the teachings Of phre-
nology exert over character, may 1,
through the columns of your valuable
paper, urge tie people of st. Paul, es-
pecially clergymen and physicians, to at
tend the free lecture to be given by Mrs
.. s Fowler in the Peoples church this
week.
A woman of rare physical and mental
endowment, untiring in her research after
Gods truth Mrs Fowler has gone deeper
into the human brain than any of her
predecessors, and is explaining the func-
tons Of the organs there located in
scrptural and mastery manner.
Our churches should be the first to
grasp their truths and begin the great
work Of reform.
Why is it that, in spite of the enormous
multiplication of churches, vice and crime
continue to increase in q diSproporton-
ate ratio to the increase OF population,
Juvenile criminality assuming alarming
proportions?
Think you if church members were
Christians, houses Of prostitution could
have increased IS per cent in this city,
WIllle the pOpulaClOn during the same
period increased only II per cent?
L was once pleading with q minister
in one of our large Eastern cities to
unite their churches in a fight against
this greatest evil of the age, when he
replied, Don't you know ministers are
the greatest moral towards on earth?
If we ministers should do this, many of
US would lose our positions"
One of the many poor unfortunates
Gerned fallen women) who daily ap-
peal to me when 1 am in my home city,
in relating the revolving history Of her
life, told me that a minister and several
church members were numbered among
her patrons.
Away with such hypocrisy cloaked in
freely admit is not Ike the church Of
Christ's time, and let us try as a re-
forming agency, Christianity instead Of
cfurchanity, which has thus far proven
Criminals are neither accidents nor
anomalies in the universe, but come by
law and testify to causaiity.'
II one-half the money expended on
church edifceS, fine music and high
salaried ministers, could be converted
to opening and maintaining schools where
humanity can be taught how to make
their bodies eft temples for the iudWell-
ing of the Holy Spirit" a few genera
tons hence would give statistics far
more pleasing to God than our present
disgraceful social condition.
The church, like all other organizations,
instead of being simply a means, as God
/ intended, has become the enc, ana CITISE
is daily cruCified afresh to maintain the
numerous churches.
Surely God intended the intellect Of his
crowning work, man, to be as safe a
guide, as is instinct to the lower animals,
and nothing but inexCusabie cupfdfty Of
the church could have plunged US into
our present social degradation.
If shutting our eyes and closing our
ears 10 these conditions would help them,
God knows I would remain silent.
Only those consecrated to God-service,
having an understanding of the influence
OF health upon the morals Of nation,
can fully appreciate the dire need human
itv has for the teaching Mrs. Fowler is
freely giving.
An eminent authority on criminality
SAYS: f'The results of personal experience
among large numbers of juvenile Offend
ers as well as the evidence furnished by
statistical investigation. have for many
years confirmed the opinion that among
the many causes which produce Grimm
al life, the physical inferiority of the
offender is one of the most important.
A sound mind in healthy body
should be the birthright Of every child;
then vice and crime would be unknown,
is the teaching of Christianity, phrenolo-
gy and science, although at variance
with theology. Edna H. Chase,
Minneapolis, Dec. 9. 1890.