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| HE RECIPROCITY TREATY
Is Nt Mak»g Much Progress At Washington.
[Sreciat ro Tae Exsuixee [
Wacntxcton, Nov, 19.—The membera of the Anglo-\merican commission ex pressed the hope today that the commis- sion woule Complete its labore before the Christmas hcel'days, but. they are rot yet willing to state that a treaty will be fram~ ed covering the many subjects of differe ence between the United States aad Canada. R-ciprocity and the Ailintie fisheries continues to be the most stubbora questions before the commissian.
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Aylesworth Elected.
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Orrawa, Nov 19 —Aslesworth, Liberal, kas beeo elected in Lennox for the Pro- vincial House by LOO majority.
Proceedings Stopped.
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THE LOW BIRTHRATE
A SERMON BY THE REV. JAMES SIMPSON, M. A. In St. Peters Cathedral, November 13th, 1898.
At the recent session cf our Provinc'al Synod, a resolution was passed expressing deep anxiety at (he aboormaltiy low birth~ rate in te Province of Qnatario; and a committee was appointed to consider the whole sutject of vital etatistics for the Eccl esiaetical Province.
Thie matter has produced a good deal of comment in the secular press, and of ne cessity mast, in tne near fature, demand the very serious aiteption of the commun - ity atlarge. For not only is Oatario suffer- ing io this respect, but. mavy other parts of Canada as well; and I am certain that if we had any means of obtaining statistics for this Province, we should make almost as poor a showiog ss the more westeru ones, Nor dees it apply to our Dominion alone, At the Charch Congress held at Bradford Koglarcd, last month, the Dean of Ripon raised the note of a'arm, aud said: “] this etate of thiog= went on, it was a case in which the nation must go dowa. It would be a case of national suicide, which was all tle more terrible to them as Chris- tians, because it meant the forsaking of the natural law of God. For the sake of what? For the sake ofa wretched cal. culation and childless homes where luxury and ease shoul! dwell ”
Tae question ic, els0, becoming a very live one in the United States, and not be- fore its time; while France is actually at a standets!i with rezard to its population, the annual excess of births over deaths being only one per thousand inbabitants throaghout the whole couutry; and deaths are in excess of the births in nearly half of the eighty-seven departments, or counties.
You will gain a better idea of the varia- tron of the birth-rate in differeat places if [ give you a few stati-tics. In the year 1895 the birth~ra:- in the Province of,Q 1e~ bec was sbout 38 for every 1000 inhabit~ ante; in Eagiaad « was 304 per 1000; in France, nearly 22; in Ontario, only 18}. Thus, you see, the rate in Ontario was ‘ow- er than thatof France, and vniy half of that of Quebec. In 1896 there was a slight improvement io Ontario, the rate being 203 per 1000, but this was probably the result of a new aod more Stringent regis- tration act which came into force at that time. Bai the chief cause of alarm is not so much that tny one year shows a low birth~rate in any one country; but that for the last quarter of # century there has been an almost steady decrease, In 1874 France’s rate was 26}, nov ik is only 22; England’s was 36, now it is 304; Ger- many's was 40, now it is 354; and so on. What isthe cause of this? It bas been claimed that the poor showing ia the Pro- vince of Ontario is due to a certain extent to defective registration, and this may be partly trae. itis quite possible that a nua r of births, especia!ly in the country districte, are not registered, although one would imagine that this would apply equally well to the country districte of the sister province of Quebec. But this does not account for the annual decrease in the rate, which undoubtedly arises principally from two causes: 1-!, the low marriage rate; and Zod, the unwillingues3 of women to become mothers, and the consequent extensive use of artifici+] checks to prevent co tion taking place; or worse still, the wilfal murder of uaboru children by the practice of abortion.
These are not pleasant subjects to deal with. A congregation is apt to be shocked at any reference to euch matters from the pulpit, while it listens without a blush to St Paul's very plain ianguage about the sine of impurity, in his various epistles. There is a peculiar kind of morality abroad which aliows the perusal of the most prurient sort of literature, so long as a p*reon is married; the witnessing of most lewd piays a: the theatre, and the perforw-
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ance of most questionall- acts between husband aad w fe,—but is too modest to listen to any condemnation of such things from those whose duty it is to speak about them.
The clergy may preach ebout intemper- ance a3 much as they like; they may de- nounce gambling and ite kindred evils; they may refer toany other sin in the decelogue in the plainest terme; but any mention of the sin of lust or impurity (es pecially iv a mixed congregation) must be £0 veiled, or mer ly hinted at, that no one can be quite certain what is meant and those who are guilty flatter themeelvee that itcannot be very wrong or it would he dealt with more vigorously and definitely. Such mock modesty is surely born of Satan for the furtherance of his own vile ends. Are we to see the morals of the commun- ity depraved, the boly estate of matrimony degraded to a sta‘e of monogamous pros. titution, and the slaughter of the innocents a thousand times more awful than th. t of
wa'n ng voice—without denouncing the iniquity inthe nameofGod? If those
Its Causes and Results, '
Herod indulged in, withcut raising a|
whose offise and duty it is to teach the people the law of God hoid their peace and keep si'enc’, how shall the world be convinced of sin?
It ie constantly said by medical and {other writers uprn ths subject, “This is + matterfor the Church to deal with,” and thank God, the Church is, at last, awakening to her sense of duty,and intends to derl with it. Syncds and Conferences are taking it up; some vigorous leading articles have lately appeared in the Church papers on buth sides of the Atlantic, and. the clergy must face the situation, lay aside their ecru] 8 and speak out with no uncertain sound.
We are in a jittle corner of the world here. We may be-I trust, we are, freer from these evilr, (han they in the larger cities of the main-land; but I know we are not al toge’ber free from them, and therefore I mustdo my part, at the risk of giviog offence, and of shocking the susceptibilities of those who prefer that the wounds of sin shouid putrify iv their concealment rather than they should be wacovered that they may be healed.
Firet, let ue deal with the low marriage
rate. And immediaiely the question sugs gests itself to you, doub'less. What bas
the Church iO sey ag
Linst a low marriage rate? There is surely bo sin in abstaining from matrimony if sne desires 80 to do. That is perfectiy true, But what are the causes of the decrease inthe number of
marriages of late years ? Is ii because men are getting more continent, that sensual desires are not as siropg vowas formerly ? Alas! the enormous numer of prostitutes gives thelieto sucha suggestion. The ‘calculations, of. the competent
THost
) investigators gave the e:timated number of
{ public prostitutes in “nglaad, in 1891 @he Jast census year) as 315,000, in France as 467,000. And neither Canada vor the United States can cast stones at Europe in this matter. (Ussher.) Isthe decrease because the poorer people, the laboring classes are becoming more provident and unwilling to enter upon the Holy Estate of Matrimeny unt l they are better provided with this world’s goods ? No.I believe I ana right in saying that there is little per cept- ible decrease in marriage among this portion of th: community. It is the middle avd upper classes who offend in this, and the reason is the growing eelf-in~ dulgence of the age. ;sYoung men and wom» en are not willing to make that self-sacri- tice required to start married life in an aumtle way. They must begin their houses keeping with as much style as they have been used toin theirown bomes, Lux-~ uries which their parents never dreame@ ofin the early days of their married life, they consider necessities. They must keep their place in society and entertain a3 well
as their neighbors, aod until all this can be doue they will not uadertake the responsi- b lities of matrimony. The coaosequence is “tnat the country is full of celibate women, to whom their condition is rightly
and naturally a wrong and a@ grievance,”
while the men too often gratify their pas-
sious in unlawful ways; for those who
know declare that as the marriage rate decreases prostitution proportionately
increases, And it must be burnein mind
that prostitution for the sake of livelihood
ig an outcome of to~called civilization. It
is pota relic of primitive man. When wants were few and there were no complex social problems, men could marry as early as they liked, for there wa3 always aliv-
ing to be obtained. Later, over-population monopol s, competition and the demands of society bave jlaced a succession cf barriers around matrimony, and the pro- fessional harlot is the consequence.
Has not the Church a right to raise ber voice againat such asiate of affairs as this? Dare she remain silent under such circum« stanses 2? We haye no desire to advocate improvicent marriages; there are two many of them already, and matrimony, as our exhortation hath it,—**It is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken ia hand, un~ advisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men’s carnal lusts and appetites, like brate beasts that bave no understanding, but reverently, discreeily, advisedly, soberly, andin the jear.ofGod, duly considering the causes for which matrimony was ors dained.”
Bu: whentwo people have that God-~ given love, one forthe other, it ought to inspire them both with a spirit of self. denis! and a readiness to forego many things they haye hitherto been used to, ifthat willenatle them to become hue~ band ard wife. There is no disgrace in beginning married life in a modest way and the sacrifices each has to make in turn for the other, should but cherish that love which (we are too apt to forget) isan image of the love that is between Christ and His Church. Christ gave Himself for His Church, and we cught surely to be ready to give up something for our wives.” * Love if it ie worthy of the name must be concecrated by the idea of duty, which frequently implies self sacrifice; and, so consecrated, it is al once the source and etay of whatever is highest and noblest in life.”
The second cause of the prevalent low birth rate ie th: increased use of artificial checks to fecuidity. And here again the luxary and & lf-indulgence of the age are to blame, li is notamong the poor that these practices obtain. It is not those who have th? excuse of poverty,—but the mercant le, the professional and the leisur- ed classes who are the culprits, because, | forsooth, childbeariog interferes with their personal comfort— with their posi. tion in society —their pleasures ~
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