The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
Does Dr.. Bsll,ns
: Observe Correctly I

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AT the request of Grenada
county's health oficer-a man
who is in a position to know
whereof he speaks, and one whose
life and character have shown thar
he feels an abiding interest in the
welfare of his fellow-man-the
Sentinel reproduces some ex-
tracts from a recent article in the
Commercial Appeal under the
caption, Talks or lnhdelity and
Socialism, from the pen of DIR.
Boiling. DIR. Boiling draws a very
heavy indictment against those
families that seek 10 avoid parent
hood. He very properly lays the
greater burden of the response
bility for trace suicide" upon the
women. He says:
Thousands of young women are en-
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sire and purpose of being childless
out of harmony with the law of God in
relation to marriage and motherhood,
and then grow out of harmony with the
law of moral purity to the pollution of
the great social stream" and that
''fun, frolic and general ease are val
ued above the law of God, and it is an
easy matter for one who scouts the d.
vine law to scout the human, and in
deed to hold all restraints of law in
contempt" - :. :. II
know people who are much interested
in foreign missions, as they should be,
but who are letting the home go to
smash and setting themselves directly
against the plainly expressed divine
commandment. to multiply and re-
plenish the earth
when any great number of married
couples have no children, there is some
thing morally wrong, and no amount of
excuses can explain the condition.
Marriage is not only meant to involve
the relation of husband and wife, but
parents and children as well, and when
there are no children, save in some few
exceptional cases, practical infidelity,
more hurtful, and a greater insult to
the Great Creator, is being INDUCED in
than is involved in crooked brain some
what out of harmony with theological
formula"
:. =. =. :. =. -.
at is pitiable that human beings can
fall SO far away from nature, God and
their fellow-men as to deliberately re
pudiate them all, and fer ease and self
ish indulgence place themselves in a po-
sition of natural and spiritual orphan
age. Unfortunately for them, this
c.ass of practical infidels are not all
from the school of Ingersoll, or Spen-
Ger, Darwin, Huxley, and other theo-
retic skeptics, but are protessed fol-
lowers of the Babe of Bethlehem Of
ten, and indeed these are in a big ma
jority, and the crime of which they are
guilty, is a crime against God and man.
kind, lies most in their being theoreti-
cally followers of the Christ, but prac-
tically followers of Herod.
ing fact that during the last decade the
decrease OF births in ratio to marriages
has fallen off twenty-five per cent, and
it is not difficult for anyone to see the
comparatively lear result if there is |
not a radical reversal of conditions.
"a half century ago our people lifted
up holy hands in horror at the condi-
tons in France brought about by this |
same shameful and immoral practice, |
but now, when we should set the world
the best example of morality, we must
bear the shame of having passed
France"
Does DR.. Boiling observe cor
rectly, and are his indictments
true?
Our county health officer, who.
aside from his honored profess
sion, is a cultured and we'll in
formed man. thinks so. Let the