g in Christ as a God. Her soul is saved and safe, but the
scholar, the poet, the scientist, the benefactor to mankind, all those
who make this life bearable and livable, their souls must roast in hell
forever if they do not believe in the creed. Divine Justice?

The greatest number of prostitutes are religious, yet prostitution
continues to flourish. The ecclesiastic condemns the prostitute as the
cause, never stopping to think that the cause must have an effect, and
that prostitution is but the effect. The cause is our economic
conditions. Prostitution is purely a medico-social problem, and the more
the ecclesiastic keeps his hands off the problem the sooner will the
condition be remedied to its best. Attempts to repress prostitution
without changing the economic organization will always result in
failure. Prostitution has always existed and will continue to exist
until our economic system has undergone a radical change. So long as
girls have to fight with starvation or with beggarly wages, so long as
men are deterred from early marriage by inability to support a family,
and so long as many married men remain polygamous in their tastes, just
so long will prostitution exist. But we have seen that the clergy is
never anxious to interfere with the "rights of the few to tyrannize the
many," and since prostitution is an economic problem, religion never
has, and never will be, of any help in this case. (Aside from the fact
that there are many instances of a few centuries ago where the Church in
a period of temporary financial distress has owned well paying
brothels.)

When we think of morality we are apt to concentrate more on sexual
morality than on the more obtuse moral duties. Religion has from time
immemorial been held up to our minds as a great force in the production
of this morality. That is another myth. In our own country it is a trite
phrase that a man has a "Puritan code of ethics," or as "straight laced
as a Puritan."

When the Puritan Fathers landed in this country, they began an existence
that has revealed to the world for all time the value of a "burning
religious zeal." In a sense they showed this zeal in regard to the
Witchcraft Delusion.

Coming as they did, to avoid religious persecution in their own native
country, they should have established a colony which for meekness and
beneficence would have shown the value of a true religious fervor.
Instead, the persecuted immediately became the persecutors--a