single city should pledge themselves to bar from
their homes and acquaintance notorious sex offenders--men offenders? And
to question clean-minded men of their acquaintance, influential men,
about these things and to get honest answers? And to have these answers
openly discussed--perhaps in the churches? Why not? What are churches
for except to fight evil?

What would the average man say to a woman whom he respected and trusted
if she asked him to tell her, on his honor as a good citizen, whether he
believes that the double standard is helpful or harmful to the women of
America? Helpful or harmful to the children of America? To the manhood
of America? Whether he is glad or sorry to think of the effects that his
double-standard pleasures have had upon American women? Whether he would
wish his sons to follow in his double-standard footsteps? Whether he
would be willing to give up his double-standard privileges, if by so
doing, he could save ten American women like his mother or his daughter
from destruction? Would he be willing to do that? _Will he give his
pledge to do that?_

Think how such a leaven of decency and clean manhood might spread
throughout the land! It might start a single-standard revival that would
sweep the world. _By the power of courage and faith and the love of
God!_

SHALL A WIFE FORGIVE HER HUSBAND FOR UNFAITHFULNESS?

I have thought deeply about this, remembering what I suffered with
Julian. It is terribly hard to tell the truth; a woman is filled with
shame for herself and for her whole sex when she tries to tell the truth
about the unfaithfulness of husbands.

_How long shall a wife forgive? How much shall she deliberately ignore?_

Many women say: "I would never forgive my husband if he deceived me."
Others say: "I would never forgive my husband if I _knew_ that he had
deceived me." And still others say: "If my husband must deceive me, I
hope he will never let me know it."

The tragic truth is (as all women vaguely suspect) that thousands of
devoted husbands, hundreds of thousands of average husbands have at one
time or another fallen from grace. Julian used to say that if all the
men in America who have broken the seventh commandment were sent away to
do penance on lonely mountain tops, we should run short of mountains.

He told me also that a man can love his wife so sincerely that he would
gladly die for her, yet, in a moment of temptation, he may be untrue to
her. Julian was an im