"THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY."

White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 350, 18 September 1924, Page 8

"THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY."

(To the Editor). Madam, — In face of the evidence before the Supreme Court, in which two young married men are charged with indecent assault, is ; not time for the women of New Zealand, nay of the whole of the so-called civilised world, to riso up in revolt at the existing disregard of the holiness of marriage. We send Missionaries to convert the heathen! Would it not be a good thing to look a little nearer home for them? We hold up our hands in horroi at the Indian marriages and the Turkish harems, hut what about our own homes?

When pure girls tell you they cannot stay in some offices because of the suggestions of married men, and wives are bejng continually insulted by seeing their husband’s making love to girls who come to stay in their homes, is it not time that we got back to Christ’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount? I’ntil parents teach their sons to restrain their passions, ami look upon married life as sacred there will be women who live in hell. 1 know of young attractive married women who cannot 1. ive a decentlooking lady-help in the house because of their husbands, and yet to the world the husband seems quite all right. What can a women do in such a case? For the sake of the children she has to hide her agony (for such it is) and live with him and rear his children. One sees here and there the ideal home, where real love and companionship reign supreme, and it is that ideal that makes one long to tear aside the covering that hides these lives of sham and beastiality. I am not dealing here with the girls who disgrace the name of womanhood, but for the loyal wives and mothers. —I am. etc., Yours etc., “LOYALTY.”