ly minister to the existence of an outcast class of women?

On the other hand, the remedy resorted to is often worse than the
disease. I confess I have stood aghast at the advice given by Christian
mothers, often backed up by a doctor whom they affirm to be a Christian
man, in order to save the health of the wife or limit the increase of
the family. The heads of the profession, in England, I believe, are
sound on this point, a conference having been held some years ago by our
leading medical men to denounce all such "fruits of philosophy" as
physically injurious and morally lowering.

But if we want to know what their practical results are, the moral
gangrene they are to the national life when once they have firmly taken
hold of a nation, we have only to look across the channel at
France--France with her immense wealth, but rapidly declining
population, which in less than a century will reduce her from a
first-rate to a second-or third-rate power, so that her statesmen have
actually debated the expediency of offering a premium on illegitimacy in
the shape of free nurture to all illegitimate children,--illegitimate
citizens being better in their estimation than no citizens at all.

Would we have the Anglo-Saxon race enter on this downward grade? If not,
then let us women silently band together to preserve the sanctity of the
family, of the home, and sternly to bar out the entrance of all that
defileth--all that sensualizes her men and enfeebles their self-mastery,
all that renders the heart of her women too craven to encounter the
burdens of being the mothers of a mighty race, flowing out into all the
lands to civilize and Christianize, and "bear the white man's burthen."

One word more, a sad and painful one, but one which comes from my inmost
heart. Do not pass by the sadder aspects of this great moral question
and refuse "to open thy mouth for the dumb," for those "who are
appointed unto destruction."

You cannot keep your son in ignorance of the facts; the state of our
miserable streets, every time he walks out in the evening in any of our
large towns, absolutely forbids that possibility. But you can place him
in the right attitude to meet those facts whether in the streets or
among his own companions. It is by fighting the evils without that we
can best fight the evils within. It is in dragging them down that we are
lifted up. A noble passion for the wronged, the weak, the sinful, and
the lost is the best means