The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-02

side of the question is right, they
(women, boys and girls) could call on
any baseball or football team, or any
athletes that work in gymnasiums
and they will tell you that protitutes
are not a necessity. All that horror
was in one speech, and your victims
had to sit and suffer, only because you
stood in a pulpit, was called "a min
lister of the gospel" and that lasciv-
ious suggestion was called a sermon.
But that is not all. l am informed
that some weeks ago you delivered an
other sermon for the benefit of mar
ried women. If l have been misin-
formed, / apologize in advance. But
for the other horrors l could not be-
lieve this. AS it is, however, no explo-
sion from you on this line can arouse
my wonder. / cannot imagine how,
with possible decency you unfolded the
subject l. here alone, hesitate 10
write what you, l am told, did not
blush to preach about.
1t seems by the sermon (Ciod save
the mark: SermonD that you are not
convert to the Malthusian Faith that
the human family is multiplying so
rapidly that within a few centuries
people will be too thick to thrive You
seem to believe the contrary to be
true. At least. you told the wives they
should obey the commandment TO null
tlply and replenish the earth. But,
decline to talk on paper as plainly as
you preach CD to men, women, girls
and boys. 1t was a disgrace to the
pulpit and a scandal to religion.
Difference of Opinion.
Church and state are held apart by
the constitution. Freedom of opinion
is guaranteed. Church and state have
distinct work to do-duties to perform.
The judiciary is one branch of the
no
state establishes gradations of
punishment for criminals COM
hitting the same crimes-imprison-
ment one year to twenty years, fine
from a minimum to a maximum. And
the state gives to every judge discre-
ton in imposing punishment Can you
not see the wisdom of this? But it
has come to pass that when a Judge,
for good reasons, as he thinks, exer-
cises that discretion, you, as part of
! the church, feel it your duty to criti-
else. to abuse and denounce the ju-
dietary. The church is invading the
state to control its powers-all because
of difference of opinion.
Do you realize what your interfer-
| ence, "as a minister of the Gospel"
| means? / do not suppose you do. You
are bigot. You would be a persecu-
| tor. You are over the line trying to
| rule the state. You are taking steps
| that once led to the faggot and the
stake. What We're all religious perse-
cutions but differences of opinion? For
what did Calvin burn Servetus? Diff
| ference of opinion. For what was Luz
Their prosecuted? Difference of opin-
ion. For what were the Waldenses
and Abigenses burned? Difference of
opinion.
1t is of such stuff as is in you that
prosecutors and inquisitors were made.
You threw a slur at the Catholic
Church. You can learn wisdom from
that church. Her priests and bishops
keep politics out of their pulpits. You
| criticise her Confessional. Before you
do SO again, picture yourself talking to
boys and girls on 1.-The consent age"
on the necessity for prostitution or
n-necessity, and TO married women
on their duty as to increase of popu-
Aation.
But. l imagine the parson and the
judge are tired Their round has been
long one. We can let them blow
and be sponged off. Besides, the par
sons hreastplate of Righteousness has
worked round on his back, and his he'll
met of salvation is down over his
eyes l don't see his sword of the
Spirit, and his little preparation of
the Gospel of Peace with which he was
scantily shod has been lost by too much
contact with the soil.
t M Norwood