Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-26

tee, was present. 1t was surprising that
more did not faint or receive injuries.
At each service there were 12o trained
nurses In attendance. The same number
| will be present tonight, when Sunday re-
peats the sermon.
HEREDITY GREAT FORCE.
BILLY" reasserted his absolute belief
in prenatal influence, and the power
which a prospective mothers thoughts
and actions exercised over the life OF
her child.
Il know of one little boy" said he,
who at the tender age of years had
tried nine times to kill himself. His
mother went to her physician and beg
ged him on her knees to tell her what
she could do for him.
, The child's abnormal said the
doctor, and you are responsible. can
tell it from the blush that's mantling
your brow now. You didn't want him
and you tried to kill him before he was
born
"The boy" continued Billy" his voice
trembling with emotion, did kill him
self mt the tender age of II. That mother
committed murder"
Declaring that so per cent. of marriage
able men today are contaminated by dis
ease, and that 80 per cent. of the abdom-
lnal operations performed on women are
eyes OF his feminine listeners to grow
wide with horror as he launched his Wig
orous plea for them to use care and eau
tion in the selection of their husbands.
Ninety per cent of the cases of blind
ness are due to this evil" he told them.
"Oh. my friends. you mothers are worse
fools to encourage your daughters to
marry some old lobster because his father
his money and because you think that
when he dies she can have fine clothes
and ride in an auto instead of hoofing it.
Some girls marry young buck to reform
him. The fools! He wouldn't marry them
TO reform them"
Mr.. Sunday charged the women to re-
member that he spoke to them not as a
man, but first of all as a minister of the
Gospel. When he had finished there
wasn't dry eye in the place.
He charged that society has just about
put maternity out of fashion. He ex-
coriated, in vitriolic words, the women
who refused to believe that giving birth
to child was the noblest function which
woman could perform.
APPEALS FOR MOTHERHOOD.
II am sure there is not an angel in
heaven" he said, who would not be
glad to come to earth and be honored
with motherhood If God would grant her
that privilege"
1t was a wonderful audience that drank
In his words. Old women and young
women, gray-haired grandmothers and
the "frizzy haired. bleached blond sis
sles" equally came in for "Billy's" warn
ings, and If there were any women pres
ent not cognizant of the pI rid sins of
society when they came II was not long
before Sunday had convinced them of
the reality of things.
II hope to see the time" he shouted,
when sexual hygiene will be a part of
the public school curriculum, and I'd
rather have my children take this sub
ject than the Greek and Latin now
crammed down their throats."
Fortified by mass of statistics, Billy
raced Up and down the platform and
poured forth a volley of vituperatlon on
the fleads of those doctors and midwives
who have made malpractice the crime
of crimes in America"
Statistics which / have gathered from |
the palatial apartment houses in big |
cities where man has got TO make a |
fat salary just to pay his rent show
that TO 10 families there were only seven |
babies" said Sunday. "In another in |
stance there were 80 families and only |
two babies Down in the slums how |
ever you will find as many as 200 babies |
to so families. I've come to the conclu-
sion that the stork is a mighty discrimi-
mating bird"
Long before Sunday started to preach
his first sermon of the several to be de-
Ilvered during the day for women only.
there was a crowd clamoring for admit