Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-15

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than even God can't do. He can't
restore innocence or rather He does
not. He may forgive, purify, make
anew, but the scar of the old hurt
still remains and always will.
/ The remedy? 'Tis to let the light
! in. When Jacob Riis was sent down
to Mulberry street in New York, as
| police reporter, he found plenty to
/ report. You always will, when a
teeming population is crowded into
yiciously built and ill constructed
/ tenemtns. Disease and crime -four
ish in narrow alleys and crowded
tenements and damp cellars. But
| when he left, Mulberry bend was
Mulberry park. There were play
/ grounds for the children, wide streets,
well constructed tenements, sanitary
precautions making for, the health
of all. There was hardly one case
of crime a week. Vice can't stand
the light. Therefore let in the sun
shine of heaven. Let its gracious
benefcent rays cheer and gladden.
every home however humble. In a
larger measure say my friends let
in the light of God Let citizens, let
parents, let all, who have the inter-
est of our city at heart come to-
gether and plan for protection
against this evil. If we keep these
/ things quiet, if they remain in a
corner, and the light is never thrown
on our dark places crime will in
/ crease and other young men will
| meet their ruin
We Need to Let the Light in upon
/ Our Homes.
(. II am glad we associate ideas of
purity with children. AS parents
we are the last people in the world
to believe that they are going wrong.
But such faith should not argue in
attention
I Some few years ago, when / an
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we are discussing tonight, a woman
in my congregation was greatly in
censed and said that neither she nor
her daughter would be present at
such service, nor hear the discus
sion of such a theme; and yet / was
4 Informed by the principal Of the
j school that her eighteen year old
daughter whom she could not bear
to have listen to her pastors plea for
purity had been detected in passing
notes OF an impure nature to both
! boys and girls in the pubic schools.
I remember some time ago that I
I finished reading a book, which was
4 one of the strongest pleas for per-
sonal purity that I ever read. I
took it to a friend and begged her to
give It her son, lad of thirteen
4 years. She glanced over it and saw
that it concerned questions Of sex,
! and said Immediately that she want
ed her boys mind to remain unsul-
lied, and that she herself in good
time would inform him concerning
these things.
But, parents, how long will kour
i boy or girl remain ignorant of these
matters, when a daily paper comes
4 to our door with its record Of crime,
when our boys and girls attend pub
1 lie schools, and when there exists as
I there does curiosity in youthful
minds concerning questions of sex?
4 Is it not better, father, that your
Il boy should learn from your lips that
which is perfectly pure when told
4 by you than to hear it from the lips
of your hired man, or from the lips
i OF men who hang idly about some
shop or place of pleasure contami-
mating youth with their foul stories
from their lips / know such men
4 are the refuse of the earth, not fit to
! live. But hear them your boy sure
II ly will. sS
i Let him hear You first of all.
u Draw your boy, when yet very young,
4 close to you, say to him my boy /
want to talk to you of things that
are perfectly pure, that concern you
4 greatly And when you have done
i kneel with him in prayer, praying
!! that you may be his example in puri-
4 ty, and that God may save him from
4 all that is unchaste.
say it with deepest regret that
4 while mothers TX to their daugh-
i tiers Of those things that they ought
to know and warn them of dangers
i not unknown to her, that the father
4 too often let's his boy go straight to
4 the devil without word j. ri
Y say that mothers warn their
II daughters; not always, though.
+ Judge Lindsey in recent article ii
4 the Ladies Home Journal, reprinted
4 BIZ the Tribune, makes the astound-
d ing assertion that nine-tenths of our
4 girls go wrong because Of their par