The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27

t4 | knife She may get well, she may not She has already dragged e through Tearys years of suffering; she may drag on until the end Multiply 1t by thousands to get the number Of times the drama repeats itself every year. Whxz Ask the doctor, seventy per cent of all abdominal operations in women are caused by the fact that the prince who led the princess away had not always been a prince.
 And yet women allow if. Chiefest among the sufferers they nevertheless smile upon the men who twill be men" and laugh at the oats that must be sown." Do you know that the stand ards. of women are lower than those of rnen7 Men demand purity. Wcn1en de- Hand nothing. And they get it. They invite into their parlors, and accept ns companions and suitors for their daugh- ters. not only the men who have stain-i ed their souls with the blood of wrong ed womanhood--that has long been, chafged--but they are more fatuous still: they invite and accept men who are not fit physically to touch the lip or the hand of any pure woman. Let me tell you a parable. There were lambs in a foId--clean. white lambs. and the wolf came and asked admit tafice. Instead of refusing as they should have done, the mother sheep and tho lambs rather desired the wolf, be- cause he was so attractive and had about him such an afr of gallantry and case They forgot that wolves de- your lambs. Is the point of the parable platI1f
 Let me sav>a word to fathers. We need more FATHERS in this country. and fewer fathers. When you are in- vestigating the eligibility of young man for your daughters hand. I would suggest that you go not to the banker. but to the physician; then act accord ingly. The time will come when. pny- sicians win be required by statute to register the name of every man who carries about in his blood the penalty of broken law The time will come before that when every man who leads to the altar one of the nations future mothers. will be required to carry tn his pocket a regularly attested eerdft- cate of health.
 Further to fathers let me say: teIi your boys the things they ought to know Between the ages of 10 and 10 1 the boys life trembles in the balances But you arc afraid you will suggesA things to your boy which he never dreamt about. Your fear is altogether unnecessary. Boys have not changed 1 since you were a boy. except possibly to be a little more precocious Save the boy while he Is salvabie.
 Helpless Chlldren.
 1 But we have not got away from our thesis that God was in earnest when he spoke. Visiting the inlquities of the fathers upon the children unto the 1 third and fourth generation" ''The fa- thers have eaten sour grapes, and the chfldrenss teeth are on edge" Early, early the iuiquitious begin to falI--even before the curtains of existerce are fairly drawn. How often instead of the little white carriage, it Is the little white casket Herod's was not the only Slaughter Of the Innocents
 In Danville, Ky a physician said to me: since we have been ticking she | has passed lIeRe She goes te the parties all the other girls, and to church every Sunday. She came to me not long ago with an obstinate sore on the mouth. She doesn't know what I the matter is, but I do. because T have known her father for years. It is but the begininG; heaven knows where 1t will end"
 John Macy says there are, 1000 blind in the United States, who might not have been so. Dr. Roberts Of Atlanta says 25,e00. and Fox. a medical Sta tistieian of authority says s0.o0O I do not know how many there are--I know only this: I see a multitude of them upon whom will break nc i Splendor of sunlight, no gieam of color i no beauty of form. no charm of dis ] taiice children. who sit in the slIa- dow of a great darkness, I pray you in Jesus name do not curse the fa- l thers who closed those eyes.
 Not Necessary.
 Necessary and natural7 Is that the 1 rlaa2 Then ft Is necessary to go cons 1 tary to conscience. It Is necessary | to go contrary to the law of God. It l is necessary to rot the body. wreck
 the mind and unwing the soul for l ever. It is necessary to become q
 menace to society, murderer of in-
 nocent women and slayer of hepless children.
 But your doctor says nor Then your doctor Is not a reputable physi- | elan, he Is unworthy his noble profess l sion, he is traitor to humanity. The Edoctos, who teaches your boy that,
 will under favorable circumstances
 teach your girl the same thing.
 Only One Way.
 And the Master says we are guilty
 if we have cast the guilty look What shall we do to be saved? There is on- l ly on thing the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse the from sin Though your sins be a scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. The past is wiped out, and yonder stretches the future. o | thrice noble battlei Between Brassels and charleroi the arnfies lay facing one another. like tigers waiting for | the signal. Then came the plunge and the awful roar. Waterloo was for the supremacy Of three countries. But we have. a battle for larger | thing--a battle. for the supremacy of a human soul. Is 1t worth while? Yes I if earth and heaven and the universe and God are worth while. Can win | T h AE.f,x Christ which strengthenth me.