The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-02-16
DR.. Rees Makes Powerful
Plea for Christianity
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wife if she had been as untrue as vol
have been?
There are three classes of men fol
whom | have no use, except | might
be able to help them. One is the
doctor who declares to any person
who comes to his office that this thing
is necessity. It's a lie. If it is
physiologically a necessity is it NOR
ally right. Would he object to his
wife, or daughter, OF mother being
guilty of such a thing? God says:
"Thou shalt not" and his Son who
knew more about man than any ply
sician said you better take out your
eye on cut off your hand or foot than
be guilty of this sin.
The next man is the one who wears
red pair of shoes, trousers turned up
two and three-fourths inches above
the top of the shoes, hair parted in
the middle, plastered down on both
sides, a little something on the north
west corner called cap, with Gig
arctic, little on one end and nothing
on the other, who declares that every
woman has her price. What an in
suit to the womanhood of our coun-
try! What woeful ignorance of the
current events! Bold have been the
headlines in our daily press, telling
of women who, rather than lose their
purity, would lose their lives. Bull
letin boards, dark places in ceme-
teries bear testimony to the value
womanhood attaches to purity.
Of all the men the most contemp-
tible and for whom hell is too good,
if he does not repent, is the man who
deliberately plans to take from an
other her honor and then boast of
what he regards as an achievement.
There are at least 100000 erring
women in this country, and make
now the most startling statement any
one can make on this subject--that
this vast army is largely supported
by broken marriage vows. At least
one-half Of this number are shared
and bought and sold into this life of
shame.
What are the causes? First, here
dity. Have sympathy for a person
not well born. Second, environment.
Third, parental neglect. A physician
in one of the homes of the fallen, de-
clarcs that seven out of every ten
whom she has treated in this home
came there through ignorance. III"
subject | know is delicate, but we are
thankful for the wave of education
along this line sweeping over our
country, and for. the attention being
given now to its importance.
Save your children from impurity
by explaining to them the mystery
of life. Fourth, dancing. Please do
not say to me that there is no harm
for if you do shall know one of two
things true either you do not know,
or you are unwilling to admit the
facts. The most fruitful source of the
awful sin is promiscuous dancing.
Here is where more men and wom-
en- have lost their purity than any
other place.
Fifth, insufficient wages. The
young woman who is given to under
stand if her salary is not sufficient
there will be other ways of earning
money.
Sixth, social drinking.
Seventh, double standard. We os-
tracizc the women, say they have fall
len and presume to give the probable
number of such in the country, but
what about the men. l fear that as
rule in the first awful mistake the
man is usually the aggressor and he
is permitted to go right on, welcom-
ed in society, when the one whose
downfall he caused is ostracized. On,
let us be fair, and make it just as
bad for a man to be immoral as Tor
a woman to be impure. There ought
to be but one standard for both.
Finally,rif you never hear me
again, listen as speak to you. Faith
ers, never do by some other fathers
daughter what you would be tempted