“FLUNG BACK TO GOD.”

Evening Star, Issue 15515, 10 June 1914, Page 10

“FLUNG BACK TO GOD.”

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It may seem rather belated to write now of a lecture given by Dr King last month at the annual meeting of the Society for the Health of Women and Children, but I waited until after the Winter Show festivities had passed. Tho public mind will possibly now be more receptive to thoughts dealing with one of the most vital problems in the civilised world, for be it noted with profit that the savage is still innocent of the most serious aspect of that problem which was conveyed so aptly in a single sentence: “Flung back to God.” It is because of the grip of the title that I desire to give a few passing thoughts touching woman’s interest in tho subject. That wo are all one with Dr King as to the necessity of giving children a sound foundation physically, mentally, and morally goes without saying, bat what I should like to hear from experts such as the lecturer is the deeper questions as to whether the population in the Dominion realise their responsibilities as regards child life, etc. How many fail to see that motherhood is the sacred crown of wifehood ; that it is the calling of God to fulfil one of His divinest duties—the placing of a soul from out His keeping into ours? How many have wilfully chosen to neglect this cal!, and fling back to Him that which He would have us have? “As we sow, so we reap,” and nothing is surer than in the time to come that which they now refuse shall be their soul desire; but can they then achieve what they once rejected ? Sisters, before it is too late, think. Perhaps it is too tender a question to discuss in the columns of a daily newspaper, but I may be permitted to emphasise the true significance of the heading to the report of the lecture—a heading, indeed, that must have knocked hard at many hearts.—l am, etc., , J.C.R. June 10.