The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1914-02-14
DR.. AND MRS. ORNE
Again visit New Iberia.

! l0oSo tVefy gOou hLu cdfDtSb
people, who have dedicated their
lives to the effort of saving boys
and girls from lives of sin and
crime, spent the week with US,
leaving on last Monday on their
journey westward. They inten ded
spending this week at Lafayette,
and again sJep further west.
| On last Sunday afternoon the
Doctor lectured in the Court Room
of the Parish Court House to an
|earnest and attentive audience.
While he could have wished for a
more generous outpOuring of the
people, yet he feels encouraged, /,
believing that some good seed has
been sown in good soil. He is
earnest in his efforts to bring the
people to a realization Of the ter
rlble menace lurking in the gener-
al, careless, indifferent drift of
the times. He is personally ac
quainted with his subject, having
devoted the best years of his ma
turer life to the effort of amello-
rating the condition of God-for
sakened creatures. He is quite
graphic iD depicting the gloom of
such lives and is himself appalled,
at the rapldlty IN which they are
multiplying throughout the length
and breadth of our fair country.
DR.. Orue, in his address at the
Court House, dwelt at some
length upon his experiences and
pointed out the need of reforms.
he said lie part:
At mass meeting in Chicago
J. T. Smith, 'London's great tenn
perance orator, said: 81 have dis
covered that the peril of your
America today is laxity of en-.
force ment OF certain laws" l re-
piled "that this statement is not
correct. and 1 know just what |
am talking about, having CAREFUL
~ canvassed every class and con-
dition of humanity from the hum
BILE home in the country to the
time -honored White House at the
capital and personally inspected
every poorhouse and prison.
This is an age of laws, and yet
the most lawless age of history
The great peril of our county 4o-
day is IN the lack and laxity Of
parental control, care and culture
of children in Christian homes"
God knew what He was doing
when He created men and women
and told them to multiply and re
plenlsh the earth. The failure to
follow divine directions, Deut IL
I1S192l22, has filled our other
wise fair land with charitable and
correctional institutions.
| Heredity and environment
breed crimlnals;, poorhouses and
prisons confirm them. The trOu-
BILE with the American people to
day is, they have made the fool
and fatal mistake Lot made; NOV
ing to town, booming, boosting
and building big cities, and edn-
eating then children with view
only to acquiring profession by
which to gain or grab possessions
without work.
! Hence, parents have become al
together too s1utul, sickly and
sentimental. They have spared
i the rod and spoilt the child.
They scarcely shed tear when
society finishes their failure in the
home.
4 The offspring Of one abandoned
\ girl. from New England's best
blood, left at a poorhouse, traced
through SIX generations, number
ed 900 either crooks or criminals,
insane or idiotlc, and two murder
ers. who cost New York $4,000, 600.
.lOur murder rate scandalizes
Christendom More crime COM
mitted in Chicago annually than
any other ten nations, barring
Russia.
History gives no warning so
emphatic as that of the danger to
a nations life, that comes from
depravity of this kind among
what are called its higher classes.
It has been proved, over and over
again, that the greatest peril to a
J nation is not it's exterior enemies,
but it's wlckedness and corruption
, in Its own high places. When its
) aristocracy and its wealthy citi-
/ zens devote their means to idle
pleasure and the qualification OF
their lust, that nation is tottering
Ito it's fall. As the Hebrew pro-
. phet said, when he had to explain
why nation was swept out of ex-
j lstence: "Pride. fnlness of bread,
. and abundance of id!eDess was ID
her and IN her daughters, neither
did she strengthen the hand of
the poor and needy. They were
naughty and committed abomina-
tion; therefore they were taken
away
The complacent old .explal on
that these deplorable coadisians
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