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~ —— THE LOW BIRTHRATE (Continued from First page. ) their self-indolgence, and everything must be sacrificed to these. “Formerly it was eonsidered the holesome duty of the

eauucaleu 80a wel to do, to set an example od Christian practice to totheir poorer brethren ; now-a days the

reversed. Those in high acquired the knowledge which enables them uM gratify their paesions y parents, and they bave

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ce, but blame th poor for not fo l Wibg + .eir € xample.”’ lhe Psalmist said, “Lo children and the

fruit of the womb,sre an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord.” The verdict nioeteenth century Christianity” proc! them to be * encumbrances.” How often do we see advertisements for married people with no “encumbrances.” When Israe! forsook God and became ilclatrous, the prophet .Hosea (% 14) in announcipg the nation’s downfall cried “Give them, O Lord; what wilt Thou give? them a miscarrying womb and dry A most signal punishment for : Be ful to Jehovah, were to be as the sands of the sea for multitude Now such a coalition ie considered by many, no punishment at all, but 18 se'f inflicted and rejoiced in. “The joyful mother of cb iren’ Bible the higbest type cf b'essedness; now she is spoken of by her superior and crimins! ly childless sisiers as a“ propagating and is despised accordingly. eome of the various in vogue to save them-~

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Those who adopt annatural method selves the unpleasantness of child-bearing, frcquentiy claim tliat thereia no harm io eltLough they acknowledge that other methodsare eivfol. But l am not afra’d to assert that every artificial check is immoral, and that one differs from the other only in \ not in kind, and the desire of the willis the same in all cases,

To be quite plain, the check mus‘ eiiber prevent corception, or it must kill the embryo after conception. If the latter it i@ absclate murder—infanticide. For if wis murder tok! ach:ld a moment after it ie born, kil before it is born, « nine months before it is born. very instant conception takes place there is the God-given Ife, and the sip ie the whether tbat life rource, or a few sears afterwards.

what tney iO,

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it is murder to it a moment

The

Same strangled at its very veeks or monthe, or Even the laws of the

apd treat this mafter as criminal and punish it accordingly when found ou* Ontheother hand, while the prevention Or eonce ption de - not inde ed destroy jife, it does destroy. the potentiality of |

life, which is mors! murder ; for every fraud is a choked germ rendered unpro- lactive,—an indirect infanticide. In other words, although the exact occasions can- net be specified, forthey are known only vo God,. there must be euch occasions in she natural course of events, when the check prevents a life from coming into evistencee God save “let there be life ;” man says $there shall not be life for I wi | thwart the purpose of the Almighty;” and can this be dore without grievous sin ?

That you may pot think that 1 exagger- ate the prevalence of these practices, that lhave set up a oan of ttraw for th: pleasure of knocking him down, I will bere quote a stateroent recently made in an American Church Magazine. It says

“bat the destruction of childlife be. tween conception and birth is a common walpractice amor: American women, ¢s- pecially of the middle and upper classes, 13 100 notorions to admit of denisl, but shat this terrible ebuse is far more general iban most peop'esuppore we have good reason to believe. Abortion is a crime so inhuman, unchriétian and damnable that one would aatura'ly suppos? that every woman in Christendom-weuld Ivok upon suco a crimios! operation with the most utter loathing, detentation and horror.

With shame and humiliation we are comptlied to confess that among the older women of the Cbristian congregation, wo commuse at the Lorp’s Table and shine as leaders in Church guilds and “ocietier, there are those who acturlly ad- vise and urge the younger women to ‘esort to an expedient so unrighteous to escape

e burdens of motherhood, pooh-pooing

e idea of its beiny a sin,and with the rug of the shoulder saying “Ob, our best people do it,and so it can’t be wrong.” r il pit of the Cros )

Again Dr. F. Napheys, an American ohysician writea “The detestable crime of ‘vortion is appallingly rife in our day; it is s>broad inour land to an extent which

suld have shocked the dissolute women

of pagan Rome, The crime it is fearfully prevalent. Hundreds of persons are devoted to its perpetration ; tis their trade. Innearly every village its ministers stretch out taeir bloody hands to Jead the weak women to suffering, re morse and death. Those who submit to ths treatment are not geuerally uomar- ried women who have lost their virtue, but the mothers of families, respec'able Chris

is common,

a week, or a month, or |

tian matrons, members of churches, and walking iu the better classea of society. | Testimony from all quarters, especially

from New England, bas accumulated with- | jo the last few years to sap our faith ia the | morality and rel:gion of American women ’ And one more piece of evidence, [ covld give dozens such, but these will suffice. Some years ago a paragraph went the rounds of the American papers, etating that a practitioner in Chicago acknow- ledged on hie death bed that he had assist- ed at not Jess thao 1500 aborti n+. Awid the wailing of mothers who refused to be comforted, Kiog Herod murdered, a few dozen of childrev in the village of Beth'e- hem, and we proclaim bim a most io human monster. Today, not in one village alone, but in scores and ecores cf places in America and _elae- where, uumbers ot men out Herod Hierod in his vile deed, while the mo'hera shed never a tear, and we must not de- nounce them for fear of shocking the modes'y of our hearers. If this absolute murder is 80 Common an Occurence among educated Christian people, how shal! we estimave the frequency of that moral murder which is committed by thousands who would shrisk with horror trom doing anything wrong after conception has taken place.

I saideducated Christian people for to , our suame be it said, that it is not oaly the sin of the better classes, but it is also the sin uf the Christian. Heathens and Ma-~ hometans, so far a+ 1 can Jearn, know it it uot ; and a@ recent writer (Ussher) saya: “Tbave taken some troub'e to a-certain, ani I fiod that the artificial check evstem islooked upon with horror by every Jew, both by distinctly immoral, and slso wholly ruinous to uny nation that might beso foolish as toalvopt it.” Does it not seem strange thatthe profess- ed followers of Jesus Christ—of Him who ‘‘was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary”—shouald be the very ones of all others to war so relentless- ly against the child-life of today,

But, further, it is not ovly the sin of the Christian, bntit iathe sin of the Prox

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not believe in sacraments] confession. Russia, which is under the sway of the Eastern Church bas the bighest birth-rate rate of any nation io Europe. The Romaa Catholic Chureh abso'utely denies all use of her Sacraments to those who frus rae the euds ofmatrimony; so in that community amongst families faithful to their religious

datir such evils cannot exist. And if Fr: with the lowest birth-rate in Eur- rope ‘rought forward to refute this, we

conte.d that France has faileu from the faith, and to a great extent in 2onsequenc-

of this very sin, which l-ads to intide'ity ag it is encouraged by infilelity. The

census of 1891 gave the population oi France as thirty-eight and one-half mlions, and out of that number seven and two-third m'llion men were returned as of no religion. This would mean coa

siderably more than half the total numbe: of men, and doubtle+s many of the remsino- der were Only nominal Christians. One i- not surprised at athesits encouraging thi- sin. They believe that there is no God, — po future life, aod they therefore frel a liberty to refuse to ca'l life into existence. or to end it by suicide when and how they please. But noChristian, pay! no one who believes ina God can possibly defend the prac'ice; for it certainly presupposes that there is o0 such thing as any D vine interp sitiou or guidance, either in the «orld or inthe indivdusl, This ie clearly exempl.fied by the case of Mrs. Besant. whose writings perbaps more than thore of any other autbor taught and encouragea ithis plao of controlling this birth~rate. About the year 1872, Chas. Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant,two well known a heists, yave the first inpe'us to the movemen: is England by publishing the “Fruis o' Philosophy,” an American bo :k which i dealt openly with that whic hitherto bad only been unksown to a few, and for which they were prosecuted asthe vendors of obscene literature, but were eventually acquitted. The case, however, created a great dea! of attention; and much unofor- tunate publicity was given to the book itself, which consequently bad a very larg:

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sale; and from that tive the birth rate in England has eteadly drcreased Shortly after this Mrs Besant publishec

her own took “The Law of Popzalation”

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iestant Christian,—the Christian that does |

which also had a0 immense saie, as it was translated into every I>nguage aod read by millions of persons. In 1891, Mrs Berant renounced Atheism and became a Theo- sophist, she therefore believed ih a God aod immortality. Immediately sbe with-~ drew her book from circulation, although +he was offered a large sum for the eopy- right, and confessed her error in writing. She declared that when advocating the system she covsidered man to be but an organism which was produced on the eartb and perished upon i, but that as soon as abe real zed that man was immortal she became convinced tbat the practice was not Ooly immoral in itself, but aleo ovly put one «vil in the place of another. low, then, can any ove who names the Name of the lord Jesus Cbhrist—anyone who professes to believe in the Reeurrec- tion ot the Dead, acd thelife of the world to come, for an instant advocate or defend this sin ?

‘ime will not permit meto dwell at any ‘leogih on the evil effects of these practices upon t*e ind.vitual, upon society and up- on the pation. Medical opiwion is over~ whelmingly against them. French pby- sicians who have Jarge experience are «specially yigorous in dencuncing their dangers to both sexes. In women they produce bysteria, coogestions, inflamma. ‘ions, morbidness and all sorts of nervous diseases, they shorten life and excite a craving for morphine, ether and other drugs.

In society these practices must tend to increacre prenuptial unchastity ; for can cur women maintain their high atandard of virtue—can the marked dflerence between tbe chastity of women and thai of men con'inue, if there is vo fear of ex posure and disgrace by becoming mothers ' Then, toc, they greatly encou-age divorce. For, undoabtedly, the presence of children overand over again averts the separation of husband and wife. Quarrels are made up and cifferences are borne with for the sake of tne childrev, and from tbe unwillingness of either parent to be parted from them. Inthe case of the ch liless marriages there is no such restraining in- fluence, and divorce is consequently sought upon the slighiest } rovocauion.

And if this eystem is morally and physi- cally wrong io the individual; if it under- mines the sanctity of family life, the very foundations of wel! ordered society, it is also disastrous to the nation, The decay of the Roman Empire is a striking instance ofthis. The poet Juveual describing the many causes which’ were bringing about the downfall of that Empire, io his sixth satire freely mentions this wealthy dame is seldom brought to bed.’ St. Paul in the first chapter of his Epistle to tbe Romans, also refersto the awful lust of the age. When the Roman wonien, anxious about theirown elf indulzence only, refused to nurse their cb lireo and esme to look upon infanticide without any thame or borror, the glory of the nation soon departed And who can fai! to see that France of today is rapidly losing ber present place among the vations of Europe from the same cause, and a like fa‘e must soorer or later await every nation thatyie'ds

one, ~ he

itself up to lisentiousness. God grant hattke Briish Empire may reslize her

danger in time and returao to tue paihs of matrimoa'al viriue,

The d fenders of these practices pl+ad in excuse that there is danger of over- population; thas teo frequent child- bearing ruins a womau’s wealth, that people cannot effurd large famiie~, ibat parents in temporary siikoess Or baviog chronic d:seasee Ought not to beget children, aod soon. A | which i# perfectly true.

But buman beings ditfer from the lower

animals inthatthey ere alle to contrel h ir sensual desires, andin euch cases ‘bore desires must be controlled, except,

at least, at (uere regu ar Gites, Wieu God, who kuowe:b +liour necd+, hae providea hat conception wl! not iake place. T+m- pa ee in corjag:] matiers #88 imperative a8 temperance in eating and drinking; and excess in any of these brings its o rp pusiebmen'. Self controlistbe first con- lition of ali morality. To command the passions, not to be a rlave to them ‘s man’s proper sta’e, aud the man who dves not command them ‘severy whit as bad as he drunkard, although his excesses are hiddew trom the eyes cf bis tellows, as the druokard: are no. The present state of | sovety, the Gd fcalty in providug for large families, or the a) bealta of a hus-

“ad oor #« wie may demand a

realer exercise of &e!f-contrcl, but

' can never condone a sin, l-t alone such

sein as infanwc.de,

My dear trethren, | base felt constrain- ed to -peak to you thus p'a nly tonight, because of the pressing need of checking the insidious vice which is every where iakiug possession of our homes. A few years ago this sutj-ct bad been better l-ft so scme Special cccasiou ; but so rapidly has the knowledge of the evil increased of late, that now there is little fear of teach- ing that which is not elresdy known, and even if this danger did eXist, there is the still greater dauyer of +l'owing the prac- tices to pass uscha'lenged fir the sake of awarning word. I am eure that many offenders have no idea of tha tiofulness of them. They may feel that they are not altogether right and honest; but they know so little of physio'ogy that ihe enor-~ mity ofthe sin does not manifest itself to them, and how are they to Jesarn it unless the clerzy speak oat.

I can a*sure you it has been no easy task for meéthusto speak, and if it has given you pain in listening, I sm certain my pain in speaking bas been tenfold greater than yours. But if my speaking, through God’s mercy, be the means of checking this sin in the Jeast degree, if it be the means Of winving the light of day and the crowt ef life forone babe yet uaborn, if it be the means of waking hu-bauds aud wives realize that married l.fe is for some thing more than the selfish gratifications of the lusts of the flesh, then I am w liing to bear the pain, aye, and the censure tha: is likely to fellow from some quarters,

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