is given to the arms of a wasted debauchee, and her
babes are perhaps born dead, or suffer through life with syphilitic
diseases, while she endures a long martyrdom from disordered,
diseased, and unrestrained sensuality. For the unmarried, young men,
soldiers, sailors, and all who do not choose to bear the burdens of a
family, society has its armies of prostitutes--women like others, and
more than others, or in less reputable fashion, the victims of the
unbridled lust of men. They are everywhere tolerated as

"NECESSARY EVILS,"

and, in some places, protected or regulated; and, from economical or
philanthropic considerations, or both, combined efforts are made to
free them from the contagious diseases which for some centuries have
been a curse attending this form of the violation of the laws of
nature--one of the consequences of lust which is the divorce of the
sexual instinct from its natural use and purpose.

The Christian

LAW OF MARRIAGE,

as set down in the Holy Scriptures, and defined by the best writers on
moral theology, is in harmony with nature, in consonance with the
higher nature of man. "God hath set the earth in families." Adultery
is a sin, because it disorders that divine arrangement. Fornication is
a sin, because it prevents pure marriages. Prostitution is a sin,
because it is a sacrifice of women, who might be wives and mothers, to
the selfish lusts of men. All useless indulgence is a waste of life,
and a kind of suicide. In a pure marriage union, men and women unite
themselves with God in acts of creative power. The progress of
humanity depends upon individual development and the conditions at
generation and gestation. With culture and a harmonized development,
we acquire a higher and more integral life. When two parents are in
their highest condition and in

A TRUE UNION

with each other, the child combines the best qualities of both
parents. When parents are not in the unity of a mutual love, the child
may be inferior to either parent. The intensity of mutual love tends
to the reproduction of the best faculties of both parents in the
child. When men or women are exhausted or diseased the race
deteriorates. Health is therefore one of the conditions of progress.

"It is all very fine," I shall be told, "to talk of purity and
chastity; but we must take men as they are. How are you going to make
men pure a