The New York herald., 1921-12-23
Bishop Manning Asked for
Attitude of Episcopal
Church.
REFERS TO ROOSEVELT
Doctrine Threatens Danger
Worse Than War, Says Rt.
Rev. J. A. Sheppard.

War upon birth control advocates
was reopened yesterday when the
Right Rev. Mgr. John A. Sheppard,
vicar general of the diocese of New
ark, issued a statement approving the
stand taken by Archbishop Patrick j.
Hayes of New York and calling upon
Bishop William T. Manning and lead
ers of all religious sects to join in the
condemnation. The practice, he said,
threatens. if not impeded, to inun-
date this land of ours with a danger
more devastating than war"
Birth control was characterized as
"a crime against morality for which
men must blush IL not degenerate and
hopelessly given up to paganism and
sensuality," and doing away with "di-
vorce and this monstrosity of birth
control" was recommended as the first
step in reconstruction.
Mgr. Sheppa.d's statement follows:
Birth control is very much discussed
and no solution of the question is yet
apparent. The general public owes q
the great Archdiocese of New York for
his timely Christmas pastoral. Through
this eminent prelate of the Church there
is no mistake concerning the attitude
of the great ecclesiastical institution
which he represents and for which he
speaks.
by insinuation we are told by those
who are commissioned to speak for the
Protestant Church that alf Protestants
fnN t,a
tive of the Anglican church, DR.. Man
ming. in this city of New York. who
always has something TO say for the
moral uplift of the country. tell us what
his Church holds on this very vital
question:
Then may We not exact at the same
time that the leader OF the different
sects Will speak out fearlessly against
this teaching which threatens by its
practice, If not impeded. to inundate
this land Of ours with a danger more
devastating than war, and an offense
unknown to the animal. and crime
against morality for which men must
blush if not degenerate and hopelessly
give up to paganism and sensuality?
Americans talk much to-day about
reconstruction. BY all means, let us
begin with the unit of society, the fam
lily, and do away with divorce and the
monstrosty of birth control, which IS
nothing more than O. conception OF a
perverted mind. .t
There was man of this country
who spoke to the American people, a.
former President of these United States,
Theodore Roosevelt. Would to God there
were men more like him among the
wealthy and powerful of this country
to speak as he, the true American. spoke
and then we would submerge this un-
American and unnatural cry which we
hear on all sides from the noisy igno-
rance of those who know not the very
first principles OF morality
mo doubt the members of the various
Bible societies and all the lovers and
distributors of this sacred volume.
handed over freely for the private in
depreciation of the people. will in their
zeal for righteousness insist on the read
ing OF Genesis, and so lead men to un-
derstand that this nauseating doctrine
written Of in the press shouted in our
public halls and peddled en- our street
corners is fit only for the denizens of
the underworld and finally severely
punished by an angry Cod