Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-08-16

and last, if at all, the win Of God and
personal goodness. such mans ere
Jt.Ne springs are dried at their
st urce He is natures final abortion,
tho last agony OF misCarrled purpose
IN the wdc-lying universe. He is only
Il vacant might-haVe- been i'm world
pulsing with wonder ana te,ming with
reality Seeking first food, drink
and raiment he dcfraudS himself Of
tho least and largest, the beginning
and the end, the alpha and omega Of
being. II is here that he who reads
GriEht sees the most direct and EN-
phatic teaching Of the great and ctor-
Ial truths which God. by his spirit
and his providence has revealed to
man
The SdfiShnc,S of Over Emphasized
lndiViduallsm.
And now ! would like to ask, if |
may be permitted, that YOU consider
with me few-for our limited time
viii permit Of but ryw-of the main
forces which today are at work try
ing to break down this old funda-
mental institution that Is the unit of
All social life-the family Think OF
the people who have thrown TO the
winds the old-timc moralities and
modcstios which ages Of progress have
won only by dint Of hardest fighting
ana greatest sacrifices. There is
nothing so intimate which these folk
will not proclaim from the housetop,
and there is nothing so private which
they do not enjoy gloatiEg over in
public. II is not difficult TO find
both men and women ready TO print
and discuss and advocate and that
too, without Il blush, the defiance Of
the family as it is at present con-
stituted, as it has been constituted for
a1eS and as 1T always viii be con
sttutcd'
Some things have been usually con
sidercd as belonging TO the holy Of
holies Of life, but now II is an every
day performance for this new spirit
ot the times in its onset against the
sacrcdness of the family to rend the
Veil from the top to the bottom, and
t. make common and mcloan the
very sanctities Of the soul. While
there is evidence enough perhaps TO
warrant the article Of Agnes Rep
! lier in recent issue OF The Atlantic.
that "modosty Is now openly advised
to consider itself false convention
# an ANTICIPATED social order / am
haritablc enough to believe that wo-
nen do not really mean to cast all
modesty aside and 10 become like
temples that have no shrine stripped
If all that represents real culture and
| genuine WomanhOod, and all in the
/ interest of some new freedom" some
larger progress of the race" As "A
matter Of simple truth, however, this
advocating the necessity of "loosening
the family bonds if we are TO be free. "
Is one symptom Of the exaggerated
cgotlsm which is trNlng. TO get rid of
the restraints Of the home life II Is
the selfshncs, of an over-cmpbasizod
ndiyiduaUsm which considers mar
riage and tho family as moro con-
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