AN APPEAL.

White Ribbon, Volume 40, Issue 474, 18 March 1935, Page 4

AN APPEAL.

Women'* Place iii Purit) Work. "No matter what particular work you have lwo*h doing, whither it lx* t mperunce, a nti-gambling. Sunday ohse- vanc*, or even Scientific Temperance instruction, I am persuaded that none is of th*supreme importance in the welfare or the individual of the home and of the national life, as that of the moral **ducatiou of the young, which we rail ’Purity’ work. “Some women have regarded this work, if not with indifference, yet with a lack of Interest. Others ha\e realised the necessity for it, hut because it see mini to them too difficult to do well, they also have passed it hy. I**t me assure you thi*t there is no real ground for this diffidence. Every woman may prepare herself by reading jp the subject, and she will ix* ready, not necessarily to speak in public on the matter, hut to do so privately, and to para on the hooks to others. I'a rents should have the Ixioks lent to them. Schoolmasters and mistresses should he in t created in the work by means of the loan of lxx>ks. In this way you *an help to form public opinion on the matter of a needed change in the method of educating the young tin moral questions. “I ask you, for the sake of your own children for the future of all other children and for the sake of the future of the race, to inuke this question of moral education a very pressing one. “Wherever two or three are gathered together in the name and for the purpones of < hxl and His work m the .world, this matter which lies at the very root cf all pure family ami social life must lx* considered. “Igirge numbers of the young people »»f to-day aeem to lie growing up in a license of behaviour for which undoubtedly the parents are to blame, hack of parental control and of teaching, which would bring home to them their responsibility, and implant in then minds a reverence for themselves and for others these are the causes which are bringing about moral degradation “I ask again: will you help in the way I have pointed out? By reading yourselves, by lending the books to clergymen. to school rnaste is, to schoolmistresses, by lending to parents, by giving to lads 11 years and over, and to young men, some of the txx>ks which those to w horn they have l>een given have t*e»*n most grateful for By these means yon may do more to help on the cause of God and humanity than by any other you could employ “ Copied from Australian Meth**dist (Voss League