Unus homo, nullus homo. Ancient proverb. ALFRED TENNYSON: The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink DR. A. M. FAIRBAIRN: If only the Church could rebuild the home, it would create the conditions that would, even in the face of our modern industrial development, make all the old chivalries and graces of religion still possible.-Religion in History, etc., p. 42. ALFRED MARSHALL: The family relations of those races which have adopted the reformed religion are the richest and fullest of earthly feeling; there never has been before any material of texture at once so strong and so fine with which to build up a fabric of social life.Principles of Economics, p. 35. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE: The greatest and deepest of all human controversies is the marriage controversy.-National Divorce Reform League Report, 1888. DR. ELISHA MULFORD: The family is the most important question that has come before the American people since the War. Dr. Joseph CooOK: A dwelling that has not in it a family altar may be a house, but can never be a home.-Our Day, 1894, 345. ABRAM S. HEWITT: Students of sociology are agreed that the greater portion of the suffering in this world is due to preventable causes, among which the most potent is ignorance, and scarcely less powerful are environment and heredity.-Address on opening United Charities Building, Charities Review, 2: 304. GRAHAM WALLAS: If this generation were wise it would spend on education not only more than any generation has ever spent before, but more than any generation would ever need to spend again.—Fabian Essays, p. 183. PRESIDENT E. B. ANDREWS: Let the hard study which the last two generations have bestowed on physical science be applied for the next two generations to social science, and the result may be, if not heaven, at least a tolerable earth.- Wealth and Moral Law, 90. GEORGE W. CABLE: It seems to me that the first thing for people to realize who want most efficaciously to help, intellectually and spiritually, those who need them, is that they must get to the homes of those whom they wish to aid. We must make the home the object of our endeavor, instead of the individual. Too many of our attempts at uplifting begin by extracting the individual from his home.—The Outlook, June 8, 1895. II. FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE FAMILY AND EDUCATION. I. THE FAMILY. § 1. PURITY and home, both words without meaning outside of Christian lands,' are respectively the root and flower of the family, which is the primary social group, in the order both of time and importance. It is the fault of much current sociological discussion, as of current legislation, that it makes more of property than of purity," more of money than of morals, and so assumes that the shop rather than the home is the sociological point of departure, and that larger having rather than nobler being is the sociological end. It degrades sociology to make it a mere extension of economics." § 2. But surely there is no need to prove that normal society is an association of families. The opening chapters of Genesis teach not only monotheism Boarding Abbut monogamy. Society is there shown to normal. have originated in a holy family. Historically, nations are but families expanded to tribes, headed by a fatherking. One reason why our modern cities are so abnormal morally is that they are abnormal socially, being largely composed of boarders, the fragments of broken families." Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, the most illustrious of municipal reformers, declares that "the sorest spot in our municipal condition-in national also-is the decadence of the home idea." The home has very largely given place to the boarding-house, especially in the case of young men, who so madly rush to the cities at the very age of greatest moral peril. This causes the break up, if not the break down, of family life. It is hardly less than a wrong to society when a family takes to boarding. Corrupted and Families. § 3. Society being composed of families, can be no better than its families. A corrupt family is a poisoned drop of society's life blood. "Bad homes Disrupted and heredity," if not, as claimed by Dr. S. W. Dike, "the most potent single cause of crime," constitute at least one of the most potent. The perils of the home are the most serious, because the most fundamental perils of society. The betterment of the homes is the most radical method of improving society. 4. Christian sociology, in discussing the family, first of all is bound to defend its Christian foundation, monogamy, against both Mormonism and unscriptural divorces, that is, against both contemporaneous and "consecutive polygamy." It is a curious fact that in 1877 these two evils were exhibited side by side in Utah, where there were among "the Gentiles" about half as many divorces as marriages during that year.' § 5. Some have cited against Christianity the polygamy of Old Testament believers. These accusers should conOld Testament sider, on the other hand, that God's original Polygamy. Edenic plan was monogamy; and that polygamy was never divinely sanctioned; and that Christ brought to men the strictest of monogamous laws. Especially is it important to note in this connection that wherever the Bible prevails polygamy and impurity are both outlawed, while they are not so outlawed in any pagan or heathen code of morals. Stealing and killing are condemned in all codes. Natural morality forbids both. Purity (including monogamy) and Sabbath-keeping are the two distinctive features of Christian morality. In nothing is the superiority of Christianity more marked than in matters pertaining to women and children and so to the problem of the family. Pagan Maltreatment of Women. Colonel Robert Ingersoll, in his most popular lecture, attempts to show that "Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child," so far as secured, is an anti-Christian or at least a non-Christian achievement. It is only necessary to point in reply to the fact that the oldest and best of non-Christian civilizations, those that have tried long and thoroughly the agnostic ethical culture of Confucius and Buddha, have wholly failed, except as recently influenced by Christianity, to develop any "liberty" even for man, much less for woman or child. The World's Parliament of Religions-on the holding of which I raise no question—has shown us some of the pretty sayings of heathen religions, a few gems gathered out of much mire; but no educated man should forget, as the sufficient refutation of all their claims to rank with Christianity, that all these heathen religions. not merely tolerate but consecrate impurity."0 None of them can stand the test, "How do you treat woman?" What we hide on back streets as a vice, they parade in their temples as virtue. § 6. As to Mormonism, although the pretended "revelation" against polygamy which was promulgated by the Mormon chief was undoubtedly a trick to secure Statehood for Utah and so protection for polygamy, the antiMormon party has dissolved in the conviction that such an act can never be recalled." Divorces. 7. Turning now to the subject of divorces, we find unusual facilities for this branch of the study in a government collection of statistics for the years 1867-1886, covering both the United States. and foreign lands." These statistics are valuable and would have been more so but for great neglect in the official recording of marriages and divorces in our States, as compared with European countries, which excel us in this whole subject of family laws." The fact that divorces since 1867 have been multiplying |