Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-11-12

country sends over to foreign missions
Is enormous when compared to The
results. That good educational work
IS done by the foreign missions can
not De questioned; educational, in the
way OF teaching the dirty how to be
clean, the sick how to be we'll. the
slave to fearful superstitions how to
be free.
But while this work is going on at
great cost to our land, right in the
shadow of the churches whose con-
gregatlons weep over the depravity and
ignorance of the heather, families of
helpless children are growing into ig-
norance, depravity and vice, and not
one voice or hand is lifted to prevent it.
From a Connecticut town, famed
Tor It's liberality to foreign missions
boy of 20 years was sent to prison for
life, two years ago, for the shooting of
his stepfather.
The boy had grown up within sound
OF the church bells and ina state Of
utter ignorance and in a scene of
drunken depravity
No effort was made to take the
child away from his evil surroundings
ana to give him the opportunity which
the foreign missionaries are giving
harmless heather children to become
useful citizens.
Nothing was done to warn, counsel
or influence the parents to live better
lives. eve never even heard of the
family, say the people. But thew
send missionaries to hunt for heathens.
Yet when the tragedy occurred, sew
en- out of twelve good, moral New
England Christian men voted to send
that ignorant boy of 20 to the electric
chair.
Without doubt some of these seven
men had helped swell the missionary
fund of which this Connecticut town is
so proud.
Only a few miles from where this
boy grew into crime, through the ne
glect of the churches to interest them
selves in home missionary work, two
beautiful children are dwelling in
home where drunkenness. profanity
and open vice prevail. 'Isn't it aw-
full, " the neighbors say-and that is
all.
No doubt a score of similar or
worse conditions can be found in
every New England or American COM
munity by those who choose to bring
their vision back from heather lands
to their own immediate vicinity. | |
do not known what can be done to
change such conditions.
I 60 not know how much power lies
in the law, of what was known as the
Gerry society," in New York, but
which now [ believe is a universal or
ganization called the Humane associa-
ton, but the law should be compre-
hensive enough to permit any moral,
right minded citizen to demand the
relinquishing of children to the society
whenever and wherever it can be prov
ed that their parents or guardians sub
ject them to scenes of drunkenness,
or cruelty.
And one part of the work of this
society should be the instruction of
mothers in the law of what mother
mood means. 1t is much more impor-
ant to teach every poor ignorant wom-
IN in America the tremendous power
# this law of prenatal influence and
% awaken her to knowledge of the
'orce of her own mind TO shape the
future of her child, than it is to teach
he heather about the immaculate con-
,eption.
What the world needs is to make
Zach mother and father realize that
every conception is immaculate, when
hey love the unborn child and strive
% shape its character by the divine
aw of right thinking and living be-
ore birth and right training after