The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-24
'IMPERILED NATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS" THEME

Declaring that. he had lectured be-
fore Christian associations for ~
years in an average of 10 cities
month and that of all the audiences
he met with he preferred a Normal
school audience, DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts,
of the International Reform Bureau,
Washington, D. c., opened his theme
yesterday morning in the Normal au-
ditorium on the subject of "Imperiled
National Institutions"
OF the so-called imperiled institu-
lions the speaker mentioned three.
namely-marriage the Sabbath, and
the little red school house. These DR..
Crafts said, were not exclusively
American institutions, for they reach
back to creation, and belong to
Christendom
In celebrating on the first of these
institutions, the speaker lamented on
the fact and declared there are II mil
lion unmarried people in the United
states today between the ages Of II
and 40 years. This he declared con-
trary to the natural order of things
and substantiated his statement both
with scriptural and sociological evil
dence.
Reasons for the present situation
were attributed to the migratory spirit
of the people at the present time.
Whereas in the past, families were
more permanently located and young
men and women had more opportunity
to get acquainted, they are now NOV
ing about more and more and the
young people have no opportunity to
know each other and are unwilling to
set out on what the speaker termed
IAN unknown sea-" No organization.
DR.. Crafts said, is so fitted to cope with
the situation as the Y. M. c.. A.
The speaker dealt blow to the So
cial center idea as it's carried out in
some cities, encouraging dancing, ETC..
and said that to use a dose of evil to
cure existing evil conditions was given
in vain.
Not only is the fear of setting out
on an unknown sea responsible for
such large per cent of unmarried
people in this country, but back of it
is impurity itself. The red plague.
he said, beats all others in it's magni-
tude. There is great need for more
purity talk to school children. Thous-
ands of people have not thought of i'm
purity except for their own physical
welfare, or the disgrace connected
with it. .iss.,es ~.
There is need, it was emphasized,
for rejuvenation of the sanctity of
the marriage tie and the sacrilege Of
it's dissertation and of the old chiv-
airy of SEX
| AS the second of the "imperiled in
stitutions" DR.. Crafts said that only
five-sixths of persons vitality lost
during the days labor was restored by
nights rest and that at the end of
the week the human system lacked an
entire unit Of nerve energy, which
could only be replaced by day of rest,
the Sabbath. His plea for the proper
observance of the day was substan-
tiated both by scriptural and physio-
logical argument.
AS to the third of the institutions
discussed, the speaker pleaded for
the study of the Bible in the school
the study of the Bible in the school and
quoted the work done in Australia from
which literature furthering the pro-
paganda of Bible study has been sent
to North Dakota as to a heather land.
An appropriate musical program
was given in connection with the
mornings service, The Normalonians
singing Come Unto Me" from Han
ders Messiah" ~. r. r = =, :
President Mcfarland presided at the
services, which was conducted under
the auspices of the Christian Associa-
lions of the Normal school.
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