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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Almost A Man + +Author: Mary Wood-Allen + +Release Date: June 6, 2009 [EBook #29056] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALMOST A MAN *** + + + + +Produced by Meredith Bach, Katherine Ward and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<hr class='pb' /> +<div class="center"> +<h1>ALMOST A MAN.</h1> +<p><span class="larger"><span class='smcap'>by</span><br /> +MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.</span></p> +<hr class='invis' /> +<p>Author of <span class='smcap'>Teaching Truth, Child-Confidence Rewarded, The +Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful</span>, etc.</p> +<hr class='short' /> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +“What is man that thou art mindful of him?”<br /> +</p> +<p style='text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'><span class='smcap'>David.</span></p> +</td></tr></table> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +“Every true man is a cause, a country and an age.”<br /> +</p> +<p style='text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'><span class='smcap'>Emerson.</span></p> +</td></tr></table> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +<span style='margin-left: 1.5625em;'>“God on thee</span><br /> +Abundantly his gifts hath also poured;<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>Inward and outward both his image fair.”</span><br /> +</p> +<p style='text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'><span class='smcap'>Milton.</span></p> +</td></tr></table> +<hr class='short' /> +<p><span class='smcap'>published by<br /> +WOOD-ALLEN PUBLISHING CO.<br /> +Ann Arbor, Mich.</span></p> +<hr class='short' /> +<p>COPYRIGHTED BY<br /> +MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.<br /> +1895.</p> +<hr class='pb' /> +</div> +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> +<table border='0' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='0' summary='Contents' style='margin:1em auto;'> +<tr> + <td align='left'><span style='font-size:small;'> </span></td> + <td align='right'><span style='font-size:small;'>PAGE</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td valign='top' align='left' style='padding-right:4em;'><span class='smcap'>Prelude</span></td> + <td valign='bottom' align='right'><a href='#PRELUDE'>iii</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td valign='top' align='left' style='padding-right:4em;'><span class='smcap'>Almost a Man</span></td> + <td valign='bottom' align='right'><a href='#ALMOST_A_MAN'>5</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td valign='top' align='left' style='padding-right:4em;'><span class='smcap'>A Gateway and a Gift</span></td> + <td valign='bottom' align='right'><a href='#A_GATEWAY_AND_A_GIFT'>22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td valign='top' align='left' style='padding-right:4em;'><span class='smcap'>The White Cross</span></td> + <td valign='bottom' align='right'><a href='#THE_WHITE_CROSS'>40</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class='major' /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 1em'> +<a name='PRELUDE' id='PRELUDE'></a> +<h2>PRELUDE.</h2> +</div> +<p>Two lads had crossed the sunny <a name="P1"></a>meadow-land of +childhood and stood by the gate, at the entrance to +the rougher paths of youth leading up to the grander +heights of maturity. They glanced backward, but +not with regret, for their eyes shone with eagerness to +climb the upward way. As they waited, an angel came +bearing a gift for each, which he gave them, saying: +“I have brought you a wondrous gift, not for yourselves +but for others. Listen.”</p> +<p>And they bent their heads and listened. And one +said: “I hear most entrancing music. It thrills my +very being. It is for me, for me.”</p> +<p>But the angel said: “Listen again. Shut your ears +to those bewildering tones and you will hear a deeper, +holier strain.”</p> +<p>But the youth said: “No, I hear only that melody +which speaks to my own heart. I can hear nothing +else.”</p> +<p>The other youth too took the gift and, bending his +head at the command of the angel, said: “I hear that +sweet entrancing strain which speaks to myself, and +which promises me pleasure; but deeper than all that +I hear a tone soft, sweet and low, that sounds like the +voices of happy children, and of a mother singing to +her babe.”</p> +<p>The angel smiled. “It is for them,” he said, “that +you must keep your gift. And in the years to come +that music will be to you the sweetest in the world.”</p> +<p>So the youths started on their devious ways through +the hilly land of youth. There were bird-songs and +flowers; there were bright paths, and dark ones; there +were sunny by-paths, which ended in dreamy forests; +there were pitfalls in unexpected places; there was +often sorrow where they looked for joy, and failure +where they expected success. And the one listened +oft to the entrancing music of his angelic gift, +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_iv' name='page_iv'></a>iv</span> +and was led to think only of himself, and his eye lost +its fire, his feet often stumbled, and the days and +nights had no pleasure for him. As he reached the +heights of maturity he was met by a bright creature +who laughed with great joy when he offered her his +love and said exultantly: “I have kept myself pure +for you,” and he, knowing his own dark secrets, could +make no reply but hung his head and was silent. +And, thus silent, he heard no more the bewildering +music of his youth, but instead there came to his ears +the sound of a broken-hearted woman’s sobs, and the +weeping of children mourning the birthright that had +been lost for them in their father’s wayward youth. +And the man said sighingly:</p> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +“O that I had my innocence again<br /> +My untouched honor. But I wish in vain.”</p> +</td></tr></table> +<p>But the other lad turned a deaf ear to the brain-bewildering +music and listened with his soul for the +happy melodies of the future. And his eye grew +brighter and his strength increased and his paths were +straight and clean, and as he neared the heights of +maturity he was met by one whose robe was shining +in its brightness and who whispered: “I have kept +myself pure for you.”</p> +<p>And gladly he answered: “And I for you;” and so +their lives became one, and the melody of happy +children’s voices drew nearer and nearer, and listening +to the sweet voice of the mother singing to her +babe, and looking into the bright and rosy faces that +with every glance and motion thanked him for their +dower of health and honor, he blessed the great Creator +from whom he had received the wondrous gift +of potential fatherhood, and gave thanks that he had +wisely listened to the angel’s voice bidding him keep +his gift for those whose life, in the years to come, was +to be his holiest possession.</p> +<hr class='major' /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 1em'> +<a name='ALMOST_A_MAN' id='ALMOST_A_MAN'></a> +<h2>ALMOST A MAN.</h2> +</div> +<p class="center larger" >By Mary Wood-Allen, M. D.</p> +<hr class='invis' /> +<p>“Let me take your book of quotations, please.”</p> +<p>“Certainly, if I can find it. O, I remember. I +let Susie Glenn take it. No doubt I can find it in +her desk.”</p> +<p>As she spoke Miss Bell walked to the desk and, +finding the desired book, took possession of it. An +open note dropped from it and fell upon the floor. +Picking it up Miss Bell read: “My darling little +sweetheart,” and glancing at the close saw the signature, +“Carl.” Sending of notes in school was +forbidden, therefore Miss Bell had no compunction +of conscience in taking possession of this one, and, +on the impulse of the moment, read it aloud to Miss +Lane, her fellow-teacher. It was not only sentimental +in tone but there were mysterious phrases +which seemed to hold a deep and sinful significance. +The women looked at each other with sorrowful +faces.</p> +<p>“What shall I do about it?” asked Miss Bell.</p> +<p>“What a depth of wickedness it reveals!” exclaimed +Miss Lane. “Who would have imagined +that such a nice appearing boy as Carl Woodford +could be so base? And Susie Glenn too, such a +shy, modest little creature as she seems.”</p> +<p>“Do you suppose it is really as bad as it seems +to us? Those expressions which appear to indicate +such––such almost criminal intimacy perhaps they +do not understand fully.”</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_6' name='page_6'></a>6</span></div> +<p>“Don’t you believe it,” said Miss Lane. “I +tell you these children are wiser in sin than we +older people can imagine. That boy needs to be +whipped within an inch of his life, the little reprobate! +I’d give him such a lecture as would make +his eyes open wide for once. I’d make him understand +that he’d better not let me catch him in such +mischief again. And I’d tell Mrs. Glenn about it +so that she could punish Susie.”</p> +<p>“I really am afraid that the result would not +be what we wish. Suppose we go and talk it over +with Dr. Barrett. Maybe she can tell us what to +do.”</p> +<p>Dr. Barrett received the ladies with cordiality +and professed herself willing to aid them in the +solution of their problem. She did not appear as +shocked as they did, and even smiled a little as +Miss Lane, in indignant tones, read aloud the +offending note.</p> +<p>“Don’t you think that little rascal should be +nearly annihilated?” she asked, turning to the +Doctor.</p> +<p>“I think he should be instructed,” replied the +latter. “Will you send him to me, Miss Bell?”</p> +<p>“Most gladly, but I don’t believe he will come.”</p> +<p>“Yes he will, if you don’t frighten him beforehand. +Don’t say a word to him about the affair, +but send him with a note to me and tell him to wait +for an answer.”</p> +<p>The next evening Carl appeared at the Doctor’s +residence with the note from Miss Bell. “I am to +wait for an answer,” he said.</p> +<p>Dr. Barrett only nodded as she wrote on steadily +for a moment, seeming too much engrossed in her +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_7' name='page_7'></a>7</span> +work to notice him. Then she read the note, +thought a moment, excused herself and left the +room. Returning immediately she said, “It will +be half an hour before the answer is ready. Can +you wait?”</p> +<p>“O certainly.”</p> +<p>“Then sit down here and look over the Youth’s +Companion while I finish my letter.”</p> +<p>For some moments there was silence and then +the Doctor, laying down her pen, turned to the boy +and said, pleasantly; “You are Carl Woodford, are +you not?”</p> +<p>“Yes, ma’am.”</p> +<p><a name="P2"></a>“It has been so long since I saw you that you +have almost grown out of my knowledge. You are +getting to be almost a man. You must be fifteen +years <a name="P3"></a>old.”</p> +<p>“Not quite. I will be next June.”</p> +<p>“Almost a man,” said Dr. Barrett softly as she +looked thoughtfully into the fire. After a moment’s +silence she asked, “Carl, what is it to be a man?”</p> +<p>The boy drew himself up with a self-conscious +air as he replied.</p> +<p>“Why, to have your growth, and get into business +for yourself.”</p> +<p>“Well, that is not quite it,” said the Doctor +smiling, “for I have my growth and am in business +for myself, and yet I am not a man.”</p> +<p>“Maybe it means having a mustache,” said +Carl, with a slight flush.</p> +<p>“That has something to do with it certainly, but +Mrs. Flynn has a mustache, and she is not a man.”</p> +<p>“Well, I don’t know how to explain it then,” +said Carl.</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_8' name='page_8'></a>8</span></div> +<p>“You have studied grammar, will you parse the +word man?”</p> +<p>“Man is a common noun, masculine gender, +third–––”</p> +<p>“What does masculine gender mean?”</p> +<p>“It means male.”</p> +<p>“Then to be a man means to be a male. How +does the grammar define gender?”</p> +<p>“The distinction of nouns with regard to +sex.”</p> +<p>“Have you studied physiology?”</p> +<p>“Yes’m.”</p> +<p>“Was it the physiology of man or woman?”</p> +<p>“Why, it didn’t say anything but physiology.”</p> +<p>“You studied, then, only those organs in which +men and women are alike, as in their muscular and +nervous systems, and in the organs of digestion; in +fact you learned only of the organs which are for +the preservation of the individual. You learned +nothing of them in regard to sex, which is termed +special physiology.”</p> +<p>A wave of color was creeping over Carl’s face, +seeing which the Doctor said:</p> +<p>“As you have never studied this special physiology +supposing you try to forget that <a name="P4"></a>any one has +ever told you anything about it, and let us for a few +minutes talk of it as of God’s laws. We believe +God to be pure, and we cannot believe that he +would make a law that was founded on impurity. +It is true we are able to think of his laws in an +impure way, but that is our fault, not his. Let us +now try to think his pure thoughts after him. If +there are two sexes created by the Almighty he +must have a pure purpose in creating them. We +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_9' name='page_9'></a>9</span> +seldom think how much of beauty and melody and +loveliness is due to sex.</p> +<p>“It is because of sex that we are gathered +in families and enjoy all the delights of home. It +is because of sex that we have ties of kindred, +brothers, sisters, father, mother, uncles, aunts and +cousins. Think of the pleasant home gatherings at +Christmas or Thanksgiving, or upon family birthdays, +with all the relatives, old and young, meeting +in love and sympathy; think of the sweet +prattle of children in the home; think of the tender +ministrations of mother or sister in times of sorrow +or illness or death, and remember that these are +possible because of sex. Men may build themselves +fine club houses where they congregate to smoke or +drink or eat together, but these are not homes. +Women may go away by themselves into a convent +and give up the world, but in so doing they give +up the home; for in a real true home there must be +parents and children, and this comes through sex. +We may go even farther and say with Mr. Grant +Allen that <a name="P5"></a>everything high and ennobling in our +nature springs directly from the fact of sex. He +claims that to it ‘we owe our love of color, of graceful +forms, of melodious sound, of rhythmical +motion, the evolution of music, of poetry, of +romance, of painting, of sculpture, of decorative +art, of dramatic entertainment. From it,’ he +says, ‘springs the love of beauty, around it all +beautiful arts circle as their centre. Its subtle aroma +pervades all literature, and to it we owe the +heart and all that is best within it.’</p> +<p>“We read of knights of old fighting for ‘fayre +ladye,’ of heroes who died to save wives and children; +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_10' name='page_10'></a>10</span> +we cannot take up a book of poetry without +realizing how love of men and women has been +the inspiration of the poet in all ages. And this +is not all that we owe to sex. In all organic +life we find the same force at work. The song +of the nightingale is a call to his mate, the +chirp of cricket, the song of the thrush, the +note of the grasshopper, every charming voice in +wild nature are notes of love, and were it not for +these, field and forest would be silent. Among the +animals we can trace the beauty of form and of +covering to the same source. And even in the +inanimate world of plants and trees we find sex as +the source of life and beauty. The bright tinted +flowers are the homes of the father and mother and +babies of the plant and without the male and female +principle in plants there would be no bud or blossom +and no fruit. Remember when you see the +beauty of the apple orchard in the spring and the +glowing fruit in the autumn that these are the +expression of sex-life in the tree.”</p> +<p>“My!” exclaimed Carl, “I never thought of +all that before.”</p> +<p>“I presume not, and many who are older than +you have no thoughts of sex but those which are +low and vile. But when you consider how the +same principle reaches through all nature, and upon +it depends so much that is beautiful and charming +you cannot believe that is in itself vile and unholy, +can you? If we are to think God’s thoughts after +him we must come to look upon sex as something +to be thought of and spoken of only with reverence, +never to be jested about or debased in any way. +You begin to see that more is involved in the +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_11' name='page_11'></a>11</span> +coming into manhood than you had supposed. But +we have not gone over the whole matter yet. You +have read the first chapter of Genesis how that God +made man in his own image, and out of the dust of +the earth. We do not suppose that he made him +out of dirt and water, as a child makes mud-pies, +but we may accept this as a statement of the scientific +fact that in man are found the same elements +as in the earth, such as iron, soda, lime, etc. What +we want to think of now is the statement that God +created man by his direct power. Then we are told +he made woman also. These are the first living +human beings of whom we have record. Who is +the third?”</p> +<p>“Cain.”</p> +<p>“And who made Cain?”</p> +<p>“God,” answered Carl glibly, as if that must +be the only orthodox answer.</p> +<p>“In the same way that he made Adam and +Eve?”</p> +<p>Carl blushed and was silent.</p> +<p>“You were not embarrassed when I spoke of +the creation of Adam and Eve, you have no reason +to be embarrassed when I speak of the creation of +Cain. All was in accordance with the divine will, +and must therefore be right. We cannot say positively +that God thought this or that, but we have +a right to judge from his acts what his purposes +were. We have a right to suppose that he created +the earth intending to people it with human beings. +Of course every possible plan for doing this was +open to him. He might have created each individual +as he did Adam, but what would have been the +result? We should have stood, each one alone, in +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_12' name='page_12'></a>12</span> +selfish solitariness, like a lot of ten-pins, able to +knock each other down but not to help each other +up. Each one would have been thinking only of +himself and his own selfish interests. This plan +could not commend itself to a compassionate Creator, +and we can imagine that he would say to himself: +‘That would never do. I must put these, my +children, in such relation to each other that they +will have love for each other; that they will be +bound by ties so strong that nothing can break +them; they must be created in such a way that they +will also understand their relation to me and love +me as their life-giver. To do this I will share with +them my greatest power, that of creation. I will +let them help me people the world. By this creative +power they shall come to understand how I, +their heavenly Father, love them, and yearn over +them, and by their dependence as children upon +their parents they shall learn to depend upon and +trust me.’ From the plan God adopted for peopling +the earth we may suppose this to have been his process +of thought. So you see that sex comes as a +wondrous gift from God, a gift endowed with a +marvelous power, and therefore to be held most +sacred. When I spoke of you as being almost a +man it was with the thought that now is being conferred +upon you this gift of sex.”</p> +<p>Carl looked up with some surprise. “Why, I +have always been a boy.”</p> +<p>“True. And a boy is a being who will become +a man. But he is not endowed with the functions +of sex until he is about fourteen years old. Then +sex begins to make itself felt in his whole being. +He grows taller rapidly; he gains in breadth; he +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_13' name='page_13'></a>13</span> +begins to see the long-looked-for mustache; he +notices the growth of the special organs of sex; he +begins to feel more manly; to enjoy the society of +girls as never before; and desires to treat them with +more attention. This is a time when, if he is +wrongly taught, he may fall into great wrong-doing +and injure himself, and not that alone, but those +who are to come after him. I have not yet told you +of the great responsibilities that come with this gift +of sex.”</p> +<p>Dr. Barrett rose and, bringing a book from the +shelves, opened it and showed Carl an illustration, +saying; “Did you ever see such a picture as this?”</p> +<div class='figtag'> +<a name='linki_1' id='linki_1'></a> +</div> +<div style='padding: .5em 0 0 .5em; float: right; width:297px;'> +<img src='images/illo013.png' alt='' title='' style='width: 297px; height: 300px;' /><br /> +</div> +<p><span class="nowrap">“What are they?”</span> +asked he. “They look +like pollywogs.”</p> +<p>“As much like them +as anything. But they +are not pollywogs. They +have a bigger sounding +name than that. They +are called <i>spermatozoa</i>, or +each one is a <i>spermatozoon</i>. +They are so tiny +that they are not visible except with the aid of a +<a name="P6"></a>microscope, and yet they are alive and very active. +They live and move in a fluid called <i>semen</i>, and +they are the living principle contributed by the +male to the formation of a new creature. Each one +contains in itself all the particular traits, characteristics +or talents which the father would confer on +the child of which this spermatozoon would form a +part. You are like your father in some things, I +suppose.”</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_14' name='page_14'></a>14</span></div> +<p>“Yes, I am like papa in size and in my love +for mathematics. He says I have his quick temper, +too.”</p> +<p>“That leads me to speak of another fact. You +see that you were a part of your father during his +whole life, and you were affected by all that affected +him. You were changed or modified by his habits. +If he tried to curb his quick temper, it has made it +easier for you to control yourself; but if he allowed +it full sway, it has made it harder for you. If he +were truthful and honest, it has made it easy for +you to be the same; but if he were wild and dissipated, +it would make it easier for you to yield to +the same temptations.”</p> +<p>“Was that what he meant when he said he was +not surprised that Will Grey was so bad a boy, for +his father was a very wild young man?”</p> +<p>“Yes, that was exactly what he meant.”</p> +<p>“If that is so why don’t fathers tell their boys +about it so that they can behave better when they +are young?”</p> +<p>“That is just what I think they ought to do, +but unfortunately people have thought they must +not talk of these things to young folks for fear it +will make them bad instead of good.”</p> +<p>“Well, I guess that would depend upon the +way they told it. Now they don’t tell it right, but +leave the boys to be told in wrong ways, and that +really does lead them to be bad. No one ever +talked to me as you have <a name="P7"></a>to-night, and I am sure +it makes me want to be better.”</p> +<div class='figtag'> +<a name='linki_2' id='linki_2'></a> +</div> +<div style='padding: .5em 0 0 .5em; float: right; width:363px;'> +<img src='images/illo015.png' alt='' title='' style='width: 363px; height: 300px;' /><br /> +</div> +<p><span class="nowrap">“That ought to be</span> the effect, and I believe it +would be if boys were only ‘told right,’ as you say. +But I have told you only half the story. Here is +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_15' name='page_15'></a>15</span> +another picture. These are called <i>ova</i>. One is +an <i>ovum</i>, and these are the principle the mother +gives to the future +child. They are +greatly magnified. +It would take 240 +of them lying side +by side to make a +row an inch long, +so we say they are <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>240</sub> +of an inch in +diameter, but tiny +as they are, each +ovum contains all +the traits or talents that the mother gives to the +child of which this particular ovum may form a +part. Your mother is English, your father American. +Their childhood and youth were spent thousands +of miles apart, and yet both were working by +the habits of their lives to create you in your peculiar +traits and talents. Are you like your parents +in any of their capabilities?”</p> +<p>“Yes, I am like mother in her love for music; +you know she is a fine musician.”</p> +<p>“Yes, and in the cultivation of her own musical +ability she made it easier for you to learn music; +just as your father, in his study as an engineer, has +given you a love for mathematics.”</p> +<p>“But my grandfather and great-grandfather +were engineers, and I am going to be one, too.”</p> +<p>“It is true that you inherit from your grandparents, +also, but it must be through your parents, +and they may have changed the direction of the +inheritance. This important fact you should know +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_16' name='page_16'></a>16</span> +and remember. You can change yourself by education +so that the inheritance of your children may +be quite changed. For example, if you know that +you lack perseverance, you can, by constantly making +a mighty effort to overcome this defect, compel +yourself to persevere, and this would tend to give +your children perseverance. So you see we need +not despair because we have inherited faults from +our ancestors, but we should determine all the more +that we will not pass these defects on to later generations.”</p> +<p>“I guess that is what Dr. Brice meant when he +said that mother’s good care of her health had overcome +in us children to a great extent the tendency +to consumption which is in her family. Nearly all +my cousins on her side die with it, but when she +was a little girl her father made her live out of +doors all the time and she grew strong, and we none +of us seem to have any tendency to consumption.”</p> +<p>“You see then the value of caring for yourself +in youth, not only for your own sake but for that +of your children. Your mother did not know that +she would ever have children to be benefitted by +her out-door life. But one day she met a young +man who pleased her, and as they grew to know +each other better they came to love each other so +that they wished to leave home and friends and +make their own home and live their united lives +separate and apart from all the rest of the world. +So they were married, as we say. Marriage is the +union of one man and one woman under the sanction +of the law. This is the closest and most sacred +human relation. In this relation the <i>spermatozoon</i> +of the man unites with the germ or <i>ovum</i> of the +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_17' name='page_17'></a>17</span> +woman and a new life is begun. When your parents +knew that such a little life had begun in their +home they felt a great and holy joy, and desired +that every good might surround it in its development. +You were the first to come into your father’s +home. After your life had begun you were still so +small as not to be visible to the naked eye, and +would have been lost had you come into the world. +But a home had been prepared for you in your +mother’s body, where day by day you grew and +grew. The food which she ate nourished you as well +as herself. The air which she breathed was life to +you as well as to her.</p> +<p>“You have seen the father-bird bringing food to +the mother-bird as she sits upon her eggs and waits +for the birdlings to come forth, and you have +thought it a pretty sight to watch his tender care +of her. Even so your father watched over your +mother and you. He provided everything as pleasant +as possible, he removed every care from her +path so that she might be happy and so make you +happy. His love for her took on a new and strange +tenderness it had not known before. And she, holding +you warm and close in the embrace of her body, +thought of you and loved you. She wondered how +you would look; she dreamed of you; she fancied +she could feel the touch of your fluttering fingers; +she made your little wardrobe and with each stitch +wove in some tender thought of the baby whom she +had never seen. Then one day she cried out with +great anguish of body but joy of heart, ‘O my +baby is coming.’ Then through long hours she +suffered, going down almost to the gates of death +that you might have life. But she never murmured; +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_18' name='page_18'></a>18</span> +in spite of all her pain and anguish of body +her very soul was full of rejoicing that soon she +would hold you in her arms. When all those hours +of peril and anxiety were past and you were laid in +your mother’s arms, your father came and bent +over you both with a measureless love, and looking +into your little face they knew what the Scripture +meant when it said, ‘And they twain shall be one +flesh,’ for were not you a living fulfillment of that +saying? You were a part of each united in a living +being who belonged to them both. Then for the +first time could they realize, even dimly, the yearning, +tender love of their heavenly Father who had +granted to them to know by experience his feelings +towards his children.”</p> +<p>Great tears had gathered in the boy’s eyes as +she talked, and now with choking voice he said, +“I don’t think I can ever be disobedient again, Dr. +Barrett. I did not understand it all as I do now. +You know we only hear these things talked of +among the boys, and I had come to feel that there +was some reason why I ought to be ashamed of my +father and mother; but it all looks so different to +me now. I wish you could talk to the other boys +as you have to me.”</p> +<p>“It may not be possible for me to do so, although +I should be glad to do it, but you can help them to +think more truly on these subjects. You can +especially help them to treat women and girls with +more respect than they often do, because you can +see how an injury to any girl is an injury to the +whole world.”</p> +<p>“I don’t quite see that,” said Carl.</p> +<p>“You can see that if any one had injured your +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_19' name='page_19'></a>19</span> +mother in her girlhood it would have been an injury +to all her children, can you not?”</p> +<p>“O yes.”</p> +<p>“And that injury might be passed on to future +generations. There lived a poor girl, about a hundred +years ago, who was uncared for by good people +and wronged by evil ones, and to-day she is +known as a ‘mother of criminals,’ and no one can tell +where the mischief will end. You would feel very +indignant if you knew that some one had done your +mother an injury in her girlhood, and you would feel +the same way should any one wrong your sisters.”</p> +<p>“I knocked Bill Jones down last week because +he said something to my sister Kate.”</p> +<p>“You felt a righteous anger and manifested it. +Well, in all probability you will some day marry. +If so, there is in the world to-day the girl who will +be your wife. How do you want her to be treated +by the boys who are her school-companions? Do +you like to think that they are rough with her, or +playing at lovering with her? Is it a pleasant +thought that she is allowing them to caress her or +write her silly sentimental notes?”</p> +<p>Carl’s face was scarlet, but he answered bravely; +“No, it isn’t.”</p> +<p>The Doctor continued. “Some day, in all likelihood, +a little girl-child will climb upon your knee +and call you papa. No creature can ever be to you +what that little daughter will be. If any one should +injure her–––.”</p> +<p>“I’d kill him,” broke in Carl hotly.</p> +<p>“If you feel that way, dear boy, you should remember +that every girl is some one’s daughter, perhaps +some one’s sister, will probably be some one’s +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_20' name='page_20'></a>20</span> +wife and some one’s mother, so that all girls should +be sacred to you, treated with chivalrous courtesy +and protected even as you feel you would protect +those who may belong especially to you.”</p> +<p>“But don’t you believe in boys and girls being +friends at all?”</p> +<p>“Most assuredly I do. Nothing is more charming +than the frank comradeship of girls and boys, +and that is why I am so sorry to see them spoil it +with sentimentality. They ought to be good +friends, helping each other, having jolly good times +together, but never in ways that will bring a blush +to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to +<a name="P8"></a>come.”</p> +<p>A rap sounded on the door and the maid entered +with a note which she gave to the doctor, who +handed it to Carl, saying, “Here is the note for +Miss Bell. I have kept you waiting a long time, +but I hope it has not been unprofitable.”</p> +<p>“Indeed it has not. I am ever so much obliged +to you, I am sure.”</p> +<p>“And if you ever wish to talk to me again you +will feel free to come, will you not?”</p> +<p>“Yes, ma’am, I surely will,” answered the +lad with a frank clasp of the hand.</p> +<p>“Wait a moment,” said the doctor, “I have +just thought of a little book that I am sure you will +be interested in reading. It is called ‘A Gateway +and a Gift,’ and it deals with some of the questions +we have been talking about this evening. You can +lend it to some of your boy friends if you wish.”</p> +<p>“Thank you,” said Carl, taking the book which +the doctor handed him, and then with another +“Good <a name="P9"></a>night,” he walked away in the darkness.</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_21' name='page_21'></a>21</span></div> +<p>The note which he gave to Miss Bell the next +morning read merely:</p> +<p>“Don’t say anything to Carl. Just wait.”</p> +<p>If Miss Bell had seen a note slipped by Carl into +Susie Glenn’s hand an hour later she might have +thought it an evidence that the doctor’s plan had +failed. But had she read the note her opinion +would have been that it had succeeded. It read:</p> +<p style='margin-left:2.0em; margin-right:2.0em; '>“Dear Susie:––It was real mean of me to write +that note yesterday. Will you forgive me? Say, +Susie, I think all this nonsense about lovers and +sweethearts is silly rot, don’t you? Let’s be just +friends. Respectfully yours,</p> +<p style='margin-left:2.0em; margin-right:2.0em; '><span class="in2"><span class='smcap'>Carl</span>.”</span></p> +<p>Susie’s answer was short but to the point. It read:</p> +<p style='margin-left:2.0em; margin-right:2.0em; '>“All right. Let’s.</p> +<p style='margin-left:2.0em; margin-right:2.0em; '><span class="in2"><span class='smcap'>Susie.</span>”</span></p> +<p>Several months later Miss Bell and Miss Lane +called again on Dr. Barrett.</p> +<p>“Have you come with another problem?” asked +the doctor.</p> +<p>“No, we have come to report progress and to +learn, if possible, just how it has come about. There +has been a wonderful change in the school. The +girls and boys are no less friendly, but it is without +that silly sentimentality which was so annoying. +They are now just real good comrades, and seem to +help each other in being orderly, polite, and studious. +How did you do it?”</p> +<p>“Perhaps all credit is not due to me, but I will +say that I gave Carl the instruction I thought he +needed and he has passed the good word along. +Several of the boys have met with me once a month +to study concerning themselves, and I can see that +they have grown to have a reverence for themselves +and a deep regard for all womanhood. Carl was in +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_22' name='page_22'></a>22</span> +last evening, and said, ‘Dr. Barrett, I am so glad +Miss Bell sent me with that note to you, for your +talk to me that night has changed my whole life, +I know. I feel so much cleaner all through, and +have so much more respect for myself. And I +think so differently of girls and women, and especially +of my mother, and I realize as I never did before +how important a thing it is to be almost a man.’”</p> +<hr class='major' /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 1em'> +<a name='A_GATEWAY_AND_A_GIFT' id='A_GATEWAY_AND_A_GIFT'></a> +<h2>A GATEWAY AND A GIFT.</h2> +</div> +<p>Three gateways span the path of earthly existence: +one at the entrance which we call the gate +of birth; one at the close which we call the gate of +death, and one at the entrance to the wondrous Land +of the Teens, which we call the gate of manhood or +of womanhood. At each of these gates a wonderful +gift is presented to each individual. At the gate +of birth it is the gift of earthly life, at death +it is the gift of continued life, and at the gate which +opens into the Land of the Teens it is the gift of +creative life. You see that each gift is of life.</p> +<p>The path of earthly life, beginning at the gateway +of birth, passes through the sunny meadow-land +of Childhood, and also through a strange, mysterious +land to which we have referred as the Land of the +Teens, before reaching the Heights of Maturity. +This Land of the Teens is peculiar in that the +inhabitants are neither children nor adults, and yet, +with the inexperience of children, they have many +of the desires and emotions of grown-up people. +This constitutes an element of great danger, while +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_23' name='page_23'></a>23</span> +another source of danger is the fact that adequate +guidance is not always given in this transition +period, or, if proffered, is proudly rejected by those +who think that being in their “teens” makes them +wise above that which is written.</p> +<p>When we visit foreign lands we are grateful for +guidance and direction, especially if we are not +acquainted with the language; so, if we do not hire +a guide we, at least, buy a guide-book. It seems +to me, then, that we ought not to rebel against +guides through the Land of the Teens, realizing +that one who has traveled through a country +can point out beauties and warn against dangers +which would not be recognized by the inexperienced +traveler.</p> +<p>We can visit England, Italy, or Germany many +times, and at each journey can profit by former +experiences, but we pass through the Land of the +Teens but once, and the lessons we learn on that +journey we can only utilize for the benefit of +others. This is why many people on the Heights +of Maturity are anxious to light a beacon for those +who are still in their “teens.” They would +gladly help others to shun the by-paths where +they have met disaster, for they have learned +the very solemn truth that in youth one is determining +what maturity shall be. The seeds sown +in the sunny meadow of Childhood and in the +broader fields of the Land of the Teens are harvested +in the uplands of Maturity, and the harvest +is always greater than the seed sown. The petulance +and pouting of the child hardens into the +gruffness, bad-temper, and moroseness of the man; +the idleness and shirking of the youth becomes the +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_24' name='page_24'></a>24</span> +shiftlessness and unreliability of the adult; the boy’s +neglect of duty and unwearied search for pleasure +may be harvested in dissipation and ruin in mature +life. It is, then, a very serious thing to be passing +through one’s “teens,” and the wise youth will +welcome any guide who will show him a safe path. +May I claim the privilege of acting for a little time +in that capacity?</p> +<p>The King of this land has made laws for its +government and wisdom, has builded paths wherein +one may walk in safety. The laws made by the +King are not harsh and cruel, but are beneficent, +and he denies no real good. He says to the traveler, +“You belong to me, and I am desirous of your +highest welfare; therefore, obey me and you shall +be rewarded; disobey me and you shall be punished.” +It needs some moral courage to bravely stay +in the path of Wisdom, for there are many allurements +to leave it; more particularly as the inexperience +of the traveler does not warn him of the dangers +of following pleasures that lead away from wisdom’s +ways. The guide worthy of trust must not +fail to point out these dangers; and the prudent +youth will listen to the warning voice and walk in +Wisdom’s ways, for “all her ways are <a name="P10"></a>pleasantness, +and all her paths are peace.”</p> +<p>We talk much about our personal liberty, and +assert that we have a right to live in Maine or California, +but we have not that much liberty in regard +to dwelling in the Land of the Teens. If we are +ever to reach the Heights of Maturity we must +spend ten years in the Teens. We cannot sell our +domain, nor give it away, and we cannot even hire +some one to cultivate it for us. This being the case, +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_25' name='page_25'></a>25</span> +it becomes important for us to study the soil and +how best to develop its advantages.</p> +<p>We find that the land has three divisions: the +Domain of the Body, the Field of Intellect, and +the Garden of the Heart,––the same divisions that +exist in the Sunny Land of Childhood, and that we +have been cultivating ever since we were born. +These are the kingdoms which came to us with the +gift of life. We recognize that the gifts which come +to us at birth and death are of life for ourselves +alone, and we have had no thought during our +childish years except to develop our powers for our +own advantage. It may be we have not felt perfectly +satisfied with our lot in life, but we have felt +that we were not responsible for this. We did not +choose to be born in America instead of Asia, +though we do not rebel at this fact. We did not +select to be white instead of black. It is not our +fault if we are born of a family in which consumption +is an inheritance; and, on the other hand, we +can claim no credit to ourselves if we have inherited +strong bodies with healthful tendencies. It is +our misfortune, and not our fault, if we are not +quite perfectly poised by nature; it is our good fortune, +not our foresight, if we have genius instead of +mediocrity. The gifts that come to us through +inheritance are ours without blame or credit to +us but they bring with them the responsibility of +their use. We are responsible for maintaining or +increasing our dower of health by obedience to +physical laws; responsible for the cultivation of +our intellects, for the development of inherited virtues, +and the annihilation of inherited vices.</p> +<p>If you study your characteristics and talents +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_26' name='page_26'></a>26</span> +you find that they repeat those of your ancestry. +Your eyes, hair, <a name="P11"></a>mouth, chin, your stature, figure, +complexion, your talents, capabilities, tendencies, +your likes and dislikes, your faults as well as your +virtues are repetitions of those who preceded you in +this living network of existence of which you form +a part. If you are not like father or mother you +may be like grandfather or great-grandmother. If +you do not find yourself repeating the characteristics +or personality of any one ancestor, you may +find yourself a composite photograph of several. +And even if you cannot trace in yourself a likeness +to any family representative, you may still be +assured that from some of them your traits have +come to you. You have only to recall the complexity +of your sources of inheritance and then +remember how many words can be spelled from the +twenty-six letters of the alphabet to see that you +can hardly measure the peculiar forces of mind and +body that may come to you though that power of +transmission which we call heredity.</p> +<p>It may occur to you to ask why, if we are not +responsible for our inheritances, is it needful to give +them any particular thought? There are two reasons +why we should consider the good and bad characteristics +which may be ours through inheritance. +In the first place, heredity is not fatality, and we +are not absolutely obliged to follow the paths which +our ancestors marked out for us, and in the second +place, we can, by understanding our own characters, +mark out better paths for our posterity. We are +not only receivers of life, but we may be also givers +of life, and this is the gift that comes to you at the +entrance to the Land of the Teens. Can you imagine +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_27' name='page_27'></a>27</span> +a more important period in the life of an individual +than that point where is intrusted to him the +physical powers which make him the arbiter of the +destiny of those who come after him?</p> +<p>The gift of possible life for others is even more +marvelous than that of actual life for one’s self and +brings with it greater responsibility. It is accompanied +with marked physical changes. You have +observed them in yourself, though you <a name="P12"></a>perhaps have +not understood them. Up to this time you have been +but a child, and all your physical forces have been +occupied in keeping you alive and growing. But +you are now to become a man, with powers that +will unite you to the race; powers that will give +you the ability to form a new link in the living +chain that now ends with you. You have noticed +the rapid unfolding of your bodily powers; you +have become conscious of new and strange emotions; +you have, it may be, found yourself becoming +irritable and have felt bewildered with the new +aspects of life and have wondered what it all means. +It may be you have felt as did one boy who said to +his mother, to whom he confided all his problems of +life: “Mamma, I want to kick and cry, and I don’t +know why.” The mother knew. She understood +the strange unfolding that was going on in his +physical organism, and she kindly explained it to +him, telling him that he must have patience with +himself, and govern himself by his judgment and +not allow himself to be carried away by impulse, +assuring him that God would hold him as responsible +for purity of character as He would the dear +sister of whom they all felt so careful. He should +reverence his manhood, even as he expected her to +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_28' name='page_28'></a>28</span> +reverence her womanhood. This is necessary, not +only for the good of each individual, but also for +the eternal interest of future generations.</p> +<p>This entrance into the Land of the Teens is a +serious, even a dangerous period, for if you have +not had right instruction you may be led, or fall +into habits of wrong doing or thinking. If you are +rightly taught you will begin to have an added +reverence for yourselves in that God is dignifying +you with new powers that will bring you more +nearly into co-partnership with himself. These +powers, the most sacred of all that have come to +you, need years for development, and should be +guarded by pure thoughts and kept for their holy +office of promoting the earthly usefulness and +eternal blessedness of those who hereafter will owe +both earthly and immortal life to you.</p> +<p>I have said that we are not responsible for the +dower of virtues or of vices which are ours by +inheritance, but we are responsible for the inheritances +of our children, and this is a most solemn +thought. Do you not begin to see that we cannot +value ourselves too highly if we have the right idea +of what our real worth is? We can scarcely overestimate +the results of our own deeds. We may +think it does not matter if we do not always tell the +exact truth; if at some times we equivocate and at +others exaggerate, but when we remember that +truth is the foundation of character, and realize +that by our little equivocations or exaggerations we +may be weakening the foundations of many who +are from us to receive their talents and tendencies, +we begin to see that the matter is a very serious +one. I am sometimes told that young people +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_29' name='page_29'></a>29</span> +will not be influenced by a consideration for the +welfare of unborn generations whose existence is +very problematical in their thought; but my observation +is that young folks are much more sensible +than we give them credit for being. More than one +young man has said to me: “I was never taught +that my conduct and thought would impress themselves +upon my children, but now that I see that +such is the case, I am sure that I will hereafter be +more careful of my life than I ever have been.”</p> +<p>This field of investigation is a broad one, and +even if you never have an opportunity to study the +subject scientifically you can still be of incalculable +benefit to humanity by ever remembering that you +are living for an earthly, as well as for a heavenly +immortality. The young people who to-day are in +the Land of the Teens are they who are determining +the characteristics of the men and women of the +Twentieth Century, creating the standards of +thought and action, the methods of business, the +level of morals, in fact the whole status of society +in the world of a hundred years to come.</p> +<p>It is a very wonderful fact that God has so +created us that the result of our deeds is not limited +to our own lives, but makes its impress upon those +who are to come after us. We are not separate +units, but are links in a living chain of endless +transmission. This fact makes our lives of far +greater consequence than if, in their results, they +were limited to ourselves. If we are anxious concerning +the future of our country, we may take +to heart the thought that it will be what we ourselves +have made it. The Bible expresses the same +idea in many ways. “Whatsoever a man soweth, +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_30' name='page_30'></a>30</span> +that shall he also reap,” does not mean merely that +his own future will be influenced by his conduct, +but that his future in his children will be a record +which he himself has made.</p> +<p>Men often make their wills and bequeath to their +children their gold or houses and lands, but sometimes +against their wills they bequeath to their +children a bodily dwelling of inferior material, and +so poor in construction that it very soon falls into +decay through disease, or in very early life becomes +a tottering ruin. It would seem rather amusing to +us if one should sit down and write his will and say: +“I bequeath to my daughter Mary my yellow, +blotched and pimpled complexion, resulting from +my own bad habits of life. I bequeath to my son +John, the effects of my habits of dissipation in my +youth, with a like love for alcoholic liquors and +tobacco. I bequeath to my son Harry my petulant, +irritable disposition, and the rheumatic gout which +I have brought upon myself by disobedience to +physical law; and to my daughter Elizabeth, my +trembling nerves and weak moral nature.” But +this is, in truth, what many parents do, and the +children find it a sad, instead of an amusing +fact.</p> +<p>On the other hand, if one has led a life of uprightness +and morality, and has obeyed physical +law, his children will inherit his physical vigor, +and his moral stamina. It becomes of exceeding +great importance that these facts should be known +to the young, in order that they may endeavor to +overcome their own weaknesses, and strengthen +their own good qualities for the sake of future +generations.</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_31' name='page_31'></a>31</span></div> +<p>This heredity, the transmission of the qualities +of the parent to the child, is found among plants +and animals as well as in the human race. The +seed of a plant produces another plant of the same +kind, and the farmer knows when he sows wheat, +that his harvest will be wheat, and he should know +just as certainly that if he “sows wild oats” in his +youth he may expect “wild oats” in his children. +The character of the food we eat, the air we breathe, +the occupations we follow, the habits we create, are +the forces which shape not only our own destiny, +but create the tendencies of our children.</p> +<p>With these thoughts in mind, the question of the +use of narcotics becomes one of great importance. +There are few, if any, tobacco users who are anxious +that their boys should early begin the use of the weed. +But they do not realize the fact that in their own +use of it they may have diminished the vital force +of these boys, transmitting a tendency to disease, or +perhaps an appetite for the tobacco itself, and not +only will the boys feel the effects, but the girls as +well. As the thought of men is turned in this +direction, proofs are accumulating of the evil +results to the children of <a name="P13"></a>tobacco-using parents. +A prominent physician says: “I have never +known an habitual tobacco user whose children did +not have deranged nerves, and sometimes weak +minds. Shattered nervous systems, for generations +to come, may be the result of this indulgence. The +children of tobacco-using parents frequently die +with infantile paralysis. I have known two cases +in which the crying of the baby could not be stopped +until the tobacco-pipe was placed between its +lips.” Dr. Pidduck asserts that in no instance is the +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_32' name='page_32'></a>32</span> +sin of the father more strikingly visited upon his +children than the sin of tobacco using. “The +enervation, the hypochondriasis, the hysteria, the +insanity, the dwarfish deformities, the consumption, +the suffering lives, and early deaths of the children +of inveterate smokers bear ample testimony to the +feebleness and unsoundness of the constitution +transmitted by this pernicious habit.”</p> +<p>The effect of alcohol upon the child is equally +marked, and from all sides comes the testimony that +the degenerations do not stop with the individual, +but pass on to succeeding generations. Sometimes +the influence is seen in the stunting of the growth, +both mentally and physically. Dr. Langden Downe +reports several cases of this sort where the children +had lived to be twenty-two years old and still remained +infants, symmetrical in form, just able to +stand beside a chair, utter a few monosyllabic +sounds, and to be amused with toys. Dr. F. R. +Lees, referring to the injury inflicted upon the liver +by alcohol, says: “And recollect, whatever injury +you inflict upon this organ, to your posterity the +curse descends, and as is the father, so are the +children.” Dr. Kerr asserts that the effects of injury +to the mind and body may not always show +themselves in the drinker himself, yet it is doubtful +if his children ever entirely escape the effects in one +form or another. These effects may be manifest in +insanity, or in a tendency to diseases of the stomach, +liver, bowels, lungs, or other organs; or with a like +love for alcoholic stimulants. Not only may the +child be weak in body but also in intellect. It is +the statement of a score of observant physicians that +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_33' name='page_33'></a>33</span> +the children of intemperate parents are apt to be +feeble in body and weak in mind.</p> +<p>Another very striking thought in this connection +is that while the physical effects may not show +in the individual himself, nor in his children, they +may be manifest in the deterioration of his grandchildren +and great-grandchildren. A prominent +temperance advocate who was laid up with rheumatic +gout, which is apt to be the result of alcoholic +indulgence, replied to a friend who wondered +that he, a drinker of cold water, should suffer +with this disease, “Yes, my ancestors drank the +liquor and I foot the bills.” In 1834 the Parliament +of the British House of Commons made a +report of intemperance in which they stated that +the evils of alcoholism “are cumulative in the +amount of injury they inflict, as intemperate parents, +according to high medical testimony, give a +taint to their offspring before birth, and the poisonous +stream of spirits is conveyed through the milk +of the mother to the infant at the breast; so that the +fountain of life, through which nature supplies that +pure and healthy nutriment of infancy, is poisoned +at its very source, and a diseased and vitiated appetite +is thus created, which grows with its growth, +and strengthens with its increasing weakness and +decay.”</p> +<p>A tendency to commit suicide seems to be a +marked bequest of an inebriate parent to his children, +and it is well to state that in the opinion of +medical men who are dealing with all forms of +inebriety, the evils resulting to the children may be +transmitted by parents who have never been noted +for drunkenness. Continual moderate drinking +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_34' name='page_34'></a>34</span> +keeps the body so constantly under the influence of +alcohol that a crowd of nervous difficulties and disorders +may be transmitted even more surely than +from the parent who has occasional sprees with long +intervals of sobriety between. It is not only +through the drinking father that injury is done to +the children, but the mother may have a vitiated +inheritance from her father and transmit it to her +children.</p> +<p>When we recall the fact that one hundred thousand +men fall into drunkard’s graves every year, +we are appalled at the thought of that vast army +marching on to death and destruction. As we +listen, we can, in fancy, almost hear the tramp, +tramp of that “mighty host advancing, Satan +leading on.” In the front rank comes the one +hundred thousand men who shall fall into drunkard’s +graves this year, and behind them the one +hundred thousand men who are to fall next +year. They come with sound of revelry and song, +and close beside them press a crowd of weeping +wives and mothers and little children, starved, +crippled, and murdered, who are to be fellow victims +with the drunkard. Not very far back from +the front row come one hundred thousand young +men in the very prime of young, vigorous life, +just beginning to drink their first glass of wine or +beer, with no intention of ever standing in that +front row, yet having started on the way. Back of +them, one hundred little school boys who think it +manly to ape the follies of their predecessors. Back +of them, one hundred thousand little toddlers whose +feet stagger in their innocent helplessness. Back +of them, one hundred thousand mothers with babies +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_35' name='page_35'></a>35</span> +in their arms. Oh, how sweetly those baby eyes +look up into the loving eyes that are brooding over +them. Is it possible those baby brows will ever lie +low in the gutter, those sweet lips be stained by +oath or glass; those crumpled rose-leaf fingers ever +strike the murderous blow incited by alcohol? It +must be, if that front rank of one hundred thousand +drunkards is to be recruited, for the drunkards +of the future are to-day babies in their mother’s +arms. Do you who read these words intend to join +this vast army of prospective drunkards, or will +you belong to the cold-water army that is marching +on accompanied by health, vigor, industry, +prosperity, success and long life?</p> +<p>We must not be so interested in the inheritance +of evil qualities as to forget the transmission of +good. We read in Exodus, twentieth chapter, that +the sins of the fathers are to be visited upon the +children unto the third and fourth generations of +them that hate the Lord, but mercy will be shown +to <i>thousands of generations</i> of them that love Him +and keep his commandments. As we have seen +the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children +in transmission of diseased bodies, perverted +moral natures and weakened wills, and realize that +the promise is being fulfilled in the visitation of +the sins of the fathers upon the children, let us +see if the other promise is being fulfilled also, in +the mercy shown to thousands of them that love the +Lord and keep His commandments.</p> +<p>An English specialist in children’s diseases has +carefully noted the difference between twelve families +of drinkers and twelve families of sober parents +during a period of twelve years.</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_36' name='page_36'></a>36</span></div> +<blockquote> +<table border="1 black" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<colgroup> +<col width="45%" /> +<col width="45%" /> +</colgroup> +<tr><td align="center"><b>INTEMPERATE.</b></td><td align="center"><b>TEMPERATE.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Produced 57 children; 25 died in the first week of life. +These deaths due to convulsions, or œdema of brain and membranes. +2 were idiots. 5 dwarfs. 5 epileptics. 1 had chorea. 5 were deformed. +2 became drunkards. This leaves only 10 who showed during the whole of +life a normal disposition and development of body and mind.</td> +<td align="left"> Produced 61 children; 6 died in first week, of weakness. +4 had curable diseases. 2 showed inherited nervous defects. This leaves 50 +who were in every way normal, sound in body and mind.</td></tr> +</table> +</blockquote> + +<p>If it were not a fact that health, purity, integrity, +intellect and virtue were being transmitted to +a far greater extent than sin and vice, there would +be little good in the world, but the transmission of +these good qualities is so extended, so like the air +and the sunshine and the water, a common thing, +that we almost forget to recognize it. When we +turn our thoughts to the investigation of this phase +of the subject, we find that vigorous parents have +healthful children, that powers of intellect are +transmitted, and that honesty and uprightness in +the father warrants us in expecting the same in the +son. We recognize the transmission of powers of +intellect in the fact that where the parents have a +peculiar talent, we very generally find the same +talent in their children. We are acquainted with +musical families, mathematical families, artistic +families, and in the study of renowned people of +the world we find evidences of this transmission of +intellect. We also learn that the effects of education +are <a name="P14"></a>transmissible, and if the parents are educated +along a certain line the children receive education +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_37' name='page_37'></a>37</span> +along that line much more readily. This fact becomes +a wonderful incentive to us to build up all that +is best in our own natures in order that through us +the world may receive an impetus towards higher +and better things.</p> +<p>Sometimes when your faults and defects press +upon you with tremendous force and you find it so +very hard to overcome them, you may be tempted +to lay the blame on your ancestry who gave you +such a dower, who by their lives handicapped you +in your life-struggle. You may feel inclined to +say with some writer, to me unknown, who says:</p> +<p class="center" >HEREDITY.</p> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +“Your strictures are unmerited,<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>Our follies are inherited,</span><br /> +Directly from our gran-pas they all came;<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>Our defects have been transmitted,</span><br /> +And we should be acquitted<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>Of all responsibility and blame.</span><br /> + <br /> +We are not depraved beginners,<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>But hereditary sinners,</span><br /> +For our fathers never acted as they should;<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>’Tis the folly of our gran-pas</span><br /> +That continually hampers––<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>What a pity that our gran-pas weren’t good!</span><br /> + <br /> +Yes, we’d all be reverend senators,<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>If our depraved progenitors</span><br /> +Had all been prudent, studious and wise;<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>But they were quite terrestial,</span><br /> +Or we would be celestial,<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>Yes, we’d all be proper tenants for the skies.</span><br /> + <br /> +If we’re not all blameless sages,<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>And beacons to the ages,</span><br /> +And fit for principalities and powers;<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>If we do not guide and man it,</span><br /> +And engineer the planet,<br /> +<span style='margin-left: 0.78125em;'>’Tis the folly of our forefathers––not ours.”</span></p> +</td></tr></table> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_38' name='page_38'></a>38</span></div> +<p>But the lesson of these lines is not that you +should lie back in inaction, making no effort to overcome +your defects because they are inheritances. +There is for you a wiser lesson in the theme than +that. When Marshall Ney was taunted with the +fact that the Imperial nobility had no pedigree he +proudly replied, “We are ancestors.”</p> +<p>There is a grand thought for you. If your +ancestors did not do the best for you, will you not +profit by your knowledge of this fact and do the +best for those who shall look back to you as their +ancestor? Supposing that your parents in their +youth had said: “I will take care of my health so +that my children may be born with vigorous bodies; +I will make good use of my intellect so that my +children will inherit an added capacity for acquiring +knowledge; I will obey all laws of morality so +that my children will by inheritance tend toward +virtue;” and supposing that you to-day, with +healthful bodies, keen intellects and upward tending +moral natures, were reaping the reward of their +forethought, would you not bless them for it?</p> +<p>You have no right to remain listless and discouraged +because of your inheritances, whatever +they may be. Hear the inspiriting words of Ella +Wheeler Wilcox:</p> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +There is no thing you cannot overcome.<br /> +Say not thy evil instinct is inherited;<br /> +Or that some trait inborn, makes thy whole life forlorn,<br /> +And calls for punishment that is not merited.<br /> + <br /> +Back of thy parents and grandparents lies,<br /> +The great Eternal Will; that, too, is thine<br /> +Inheritance––strong, beautiful, divine;<br /> +Sure lever of success for one who tries.<br /> +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_39' name='page_39'></a>39</span> + <br /> +Pry up thy fault with this great lever––will;<br /> +However deeply bedded in propensity;<br /> +However firmly set, I tell thee firmer yet<br /> +Is that great power that comes from truth’s immensity.<br /> + <br /> +There is no noble height thou canst not climb;<br /> +All triumphs may be thine in time’s futurity,<br /> +If whatsoe’er thy fault, thou dost not faint or halt,<br /> +But lean upon the staff of God’s security.<br /> + <br /> +Earth has no claim the soul can not contest.<br /> +Know thyself part of the supernal source,<br /> +And naught can stand before thy spirit’s force<br /> +The soul’s divine inheritance is best.</p> +</td></tr></table> +<p>The youth of to-day have in their own hands +the molding of the future, not only of themselves, +but of the nation, by the every day habits of their +lives. By their thoughts and aspirations, by the +moral tendencies which they are cultivating in +themselves, they are determining what shall be the +characteristics of the nation in a hundred years to +come. Shall this be, in a hundred years, a nation +of drunkards? The young people of to-day are +deciding that question. Shall it be a nation of +invalids? This, also, the young people are deciding. +Shall it be a nation filled with greed of gain, with +a low standard of morals, with dishonest methods +in business, or shall it be a nation wherein vigorous +health is the rule, unflinching courage, absolute +integrity and pure morality shall everywhere +reign? What the young people of to-day are +making of themselves physically, mentally and +morally, is deciding what shall be the future of the +country.</p> +<hr class='major' /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 1em'> +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_40' name='page_40'></a>40</span> +<a name='THE_WHITE_CROSS' id='THE_WHITE_CROSS'></a> +<h2>THE WHITE CROSS.</h2> +</div> +<p>The cross is considered as an emblem of self-denial, +the immolating of selfish wishes upon the +altar of universal good.</p> +<p>In a nobler sense it means not so much self-denial +as the creation of nobler desires, so that the +individual wants only those things which he rightfully +should have; he is not obliged to deny himself, +because he asks nothing but that which is +noble and pure. In this sense the cross is not so +much the emblem of self-denial as an emblem of +self-ennoblement––the exaltation of self.</p> +<p>The White Cross typifies the purifying of the +life from the desire of mere sense pleasures. It +means the noble manhood which claims for itself +the privilege of chastity and the rewards of purity.</p> +<p>The White Cross army is composed of men and +boys over fourteen years of age who unite to resist +vice, to secure safety for the home and for society, +to become all that becomes true manhood. In organized +co-operation there is strength. It is not +only the “long pull” and the “strong pull,” but +the “pull altogether,” that is thoroughly successful.</p> +<p>Hundreds of men are living the white life individually, +but are not associated together in an effort +to influence others. Such association would +result in more rapidly spreading the idea of the +responsibility of the individual, would create public +opinion, would give moral support to those who +might find their unaided strength inadequate to +meet the temptations of the world, in short, would +<span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_41' name='page_41'></a>41</span> +furnish the conditions favorable to the highest +ideals of social and individual life.</p> +<p>The White Cross Society aims to unite men in +such an organized effort for the elevation of moral +standards. Its members are pledged to the keeping +of a fivefold obligation. The first of these appeals +to the chivalry latent in the heart of every +man, making him a protector of every woman, +however lonely or friendless she may be, recognizing +her potential value to the race; protecting +her against his own selfish desires, against the open +and covert assaults of other men, against her own +unwisdom, if need be.</p> +<p>The second obligation pledges the White Cross +knight to a pure heart expressed not only in conduct +but in word. He will think and speak reverently +of life in all its phases, and help to cleanse +the language––written or spoken––of all that pollutes +the heart or vitiates the imagination. The +third obligation claims for the White Cross soldier +the glory of living up to the highest moral standards, +of being as pure as the noblest woman that +lives. The fourth recognizes the power of influence +and binds the members to a helpful interest +in all humanity.</p> +<p>The fifth covers the whole scope of life in the +obligation to use every effort to fulfil the command, +“Keep thyself pure.” The heart of the true man +must throb a quick response to the appeal made to +him by the White Cross.</p> +<p>It means marital fidelity, it implies the sanctity +of the home, it creates individual purity, and that +insures social purity, it means a nobler manhood, a +grander womanhood, a safer childhood.</p> +<div><span class='pagenum pncolor'><a id='page_42' name='page_42'></a>42</span></div> +<p>The appeal is made to you individually. Will +you not become a White Cross knight? Will you +not, even if you cannot join an organized society, +become a standard-bearer of the White Cross, +pledging yourself to its five obligations? Soon +you will find others willing to unite with you in +this great work, and the society will be formed.</p> +<p>Each one who reads this book may become a true +and faithful knight of the White Cross, no matter +where he may be, in city mart or lonely farm, in +busy shop or quiet school, and not only may he be +a soldier, but he may be a recruiting officer, inducing +others to enlist under the White Cross banner.</p> +<hr class='invis' /> +<h3>THE WHITE CROSS PLEDGE.</h3> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +“<i>Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.</i>”</p> +</td></tr></table> +<blockquote> +<p><span class='smcap'>I Promise, by the Help of God:</span></p> +<ol> +<li><i>To treat all women with respect, and endeavor to protect +them from wrong and degradation.</i></li> + +<li><i>To endeavor to put down all indecent language and +coarse jests.</i></li> + +<li><i>To maintain the law of purity as equally binding +upon men and women.</i></li> + +<li><i>To endeavor to spread these principles among my +companions, and try to help my younger brothers.</i></li> + +<li><i>To use all possible means to fulfil the command, +“Keep thyself pure.”</i></li> +</ol> +</blockquote> +<p style='margin-left:0.0em; margin-right:5.0em; text-align:right'><i>Name</i>_______________________<br /></p> +<hr class='pb' /> +<div class="center"> +<img src='images/title1.png' alt='Self and Sex Series.' title='' style='width: 500px; height: 139px;' /><br /> +<p><span class="muchlarger">FOR MEN.</span></p> +<p><b>By Sylvanus Stall, D. 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Surely, dear Dr. Allen, God has blessed many +through your instrumentality.”</p> +<blockquote> +<p>Read this book if you read no other but the Bible this year.––<i>Emma Bates, Valley +City, N. D.</i></p> +<p>Please send me some more copies of your unique and valuable little book. I cannot +keep a copy over night. It would be an evangel to every young person in whose +hands it might be placed. I would also invite the public school teachers to examine this +rare little book.––<i>Frances E. Willard.</i></p> +<p>A skilful, graceful, and reverent effort to assist parents in what has been a delicate +and difficult task. The author deserves the praise that belongs to the successful pioneer.––<i>George +N. Miller.</i></p> +</blockquote><div class="center"> +<hr class='short' /> +<p><span class="larger"><b>ALMOST A MAN.</b></span></p> +<p>... 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This book deals reverently with the great mystery of life.––<i>Ladies’ Home Journal.</i></p> +<p>Too much cannot be said in its favor.––<i>School Education.</i></p> +<p>I can conscientiously recommend it to all who are interested in the physical and +moral welfare of <a name="P15"></a>youth.––<i>C. A. Dorman, M. D.</i></p> +<p>Such literature cannot fail to accomplish great and lasting good.––<i>Eng. F. Storke, +M. D.</i></p> +<p>Many have given good advice, but this is the best.––<i>Rev. Kent White.</i></p> +<p>I believe this little book would do incalculable good if placed in the hands of boys +after they have reached ten years of age.––<i>Wm. G. Lotze, Gen. Sec. Y. M. C. A., Denver, +Colo.</i></p> +</blockquote> +<table style='margin: auto' summary=''><tr><td> +<p style='margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;'> +<b><span class="smaller">Address,</span><br /> +WOOD-ALLEN PUB. 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D.</b></p> +</div> +<p>Teaching by metaphor, parable, and allegory has been the method of many +of the wisest instructors.</p> +<p>No one can claim originality in comparing the body to a house, for that +comparison is as old as literature.</p> +<p>But the simile is still of interest to the juvenile mind, and as science is ever +making new discoveries, there is continual demand for new and interesting works +on physiology.</p> +<p>Dr. Wood-Allen in this new book has united scientific facts and metaphor +with the skill that would be expected from her by those acquainted with her literary +powers.</p> +<p>The book will be found equally valuable as a text-book, a supplementary +reader or a reference book in schools, or as a book of pleasant home instruction. +Teachers in Normal Schools will find it a most suggestive aid in teaching physiology. +As it contains the most reliable scientific facts in regard to alcohol, tobacco, +and other narcotics, it fills the demand created by the school laws compelling +the teaching of the action of narcotics on the human body.</p> +<p class="center larger" >TESTIMONIALS.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>A charming book.––<i>Frances Willard.</i></p> +<p>Only a scientific person can understand how really good it is. It has been to +me intensely interesting, and I hope sincerely that the world at large will appreciate +it.––<i>J. M. W. Kitchen, M. D.</i></p> +<p>It gives me pleasure to note that the book, both by its subject-matter and its +pleasing form of presentation, is well adapted to the use for which it is intended.––<i>B. +A. Hinsdale, Professor of the Science and Art of Teaching, University of +Michigan.</i></p> +<p>I find here, wrought out in attractive form, some of the most important knowledge +that our young people ought to know. It is suitable for a supplementary +reader in the upper grammar grades of the public schools. Part Second particularly +is of the highest value to the boys and girls in our grammar and high schools.––<i>W. +S. Perry, Principal of High School, Ann Arbor, Mich.</i></p> +<p>This excellent work ought to be, not only read, but studied by every one in +and out of our schools who is interested in preserving the integrity of our bodily +and mental functions. The author’s method would make knowledge invigorate +and mature the judgment and not burden the memory, and this is the germinal +idea in all sound education.––<i>Geo. E. Seymour, Professor of History, High School, +St. Louis, Mo.</i></p> +</blockquote><div class="center"> +<p style='margin-left:1.0em; margin-right:0.0em; '><b>The retail price of the book is $1.10. Orders promptly filled by the</b></p> +<p style='margin-left:1.0em; margin-right:0.0em; '><b>WOOD-ALLEN PUB. CO.,<br /> +Ann Arbor, Mich.</b></p> +<hr class='pb' /> +</div><div class="center larger"> +<p class="muchlarger" ><b>THE BIRTH CHAMBER.</b></p> +<p class="smaller" >PRICE, 10 Cents.</p> +<p>A Supplementary Chapter to<br /> +<b>The Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling</b>.</p> +</div> +<hr class='short' /> +<p>In this supplementary chapter are given the scientific +facts of special physiology, written in Dr. Wood-Allen’s own +delicate style. Many who have become aroused to the fact +that accurate scientific knowledge is the surest safeguard of +purity, are themselves not well enough instructed to be able +to teach their children. This booklet meets the need of all +such, and gives just what is wanted to instruct young people +in regard to the sacred origin of life. Every one who +owns “Teaching Truth” and “Child-Confidence Rewarded” +will desire to possess this booklet also, for it supplements +these perfectly.</p> +<hr class='short' /> +<div class="center larger"> +<p><b>CHILD-CONFIDENCE REWARDED.</b></p> +<p><span class="smaller">PRICE, 10 Cents.</span></p> +<hr class='short' /> +</div><blockquote> +<p>“This little book treats of child-purity with the same delicate +but masterly hand shown in Dr. Allen’s other writings.”––<i>Union Signal +of July 5, 1894.</i></p> +<p>“Unique and valuable.”––<i>Frances E. Willard.</i></p> +<p>“I am delighted with it.”––<i>Katherine Lente Stevenson, Chicago.</i></p> +<p>“Most charmingly written.”––<i>Alice B. Stockham, <a name="P16"></a>M. D., Chicago.</i></p> +<p>“The good it will do is incalculable.”––<i>Emily S. Bouton, in Toledo +Blade.</i></p> +<p>“The best you have done yet. I can recommend it.”––<i>Earl +Barnes, Professor in Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal.</i></p> +</blockquote> +<hr class='pb' /> +<div style="float: left; width: auto; padding: .5em .5em 0 0"> +<img src='images/title3.png' alt='The New Crusade' title='' style='width: 307px; height: 200px;' /><br /> +</div> +<div class="sidebarright center"> +<p><span class="nowrap">Price 50</span> Cents<br /> +a Year.</p> +<p>Sample Copies<br /> +Free.</p> +</div><div class="center" style="clear: both"> +<hr class='invis' /> +<p><b>MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D., <span class='smcap'>EDITOR</span>.</b></p> +</div> +<p style='margin-left:4.0em; margin-right:2.0em; text-indent: -2.0em;'>It is sui generis, deals frankly and scientifically +with the moral problems of the home, the +school, and society.</p> +<p>It embodies the work of the <b>White Cross</b>, <b>White Shield</b>, +<b>Mother’s Meetings</b>, <b>Child-Culture Circles</b>, and the <b>Rescue +Work</b>. Also deals with the subject of Reform and Legislation for +Morality, and yet continuing to emphasize, most emphatically of all, +the necessity of right instruction as the surest means of promoting +purity. Co-operating with the National Superintendent of the Department +of Health and Heredity, it discusses all topics of health and +inheritance, pre-natal influences, etc. <b>Physical education will also +have its share of attention.</b></p> +<p>Crusaders of old endeavored to overthrow evil by “force and +arms.” The <span class='smcap'>New Crusade</span> proposes to emphasize the positive +side of life, and waging a peaceful war, aims to supplant +Ignorance by Knowledge; to eradicate Vice by Virtue; to displace +Disease by Health, and to dispel Darkness by Light.</p> +<p>Send for terms to agents and our club rates. Make all Money +Orders payable to</p> +<div class="center"> +<p><b>WOOD-ALLEN PUBLISHING COMPANY,<br /> +Ann Arbor, Michigan.</b></p> +<hr class='pb' /> +</div><div class="trnote"> +<p><b>Transcriber Notes</b></p> +<p>Typographical problems have been changed and are +listed below.</p> +<p>Hyphenation and common compound words standardized and listed below.</p> +<p>Author’s archaic spelling is preserved.</p> +<p>Author’s punctuation style is preserved.</p> +<p>Table of Contents added.</p> +<hr class='invis' /> +<p><b>Transcriber Changes</b></p> +<p>The following changes were made to the original text:</p> +<p><a href="#P1">Prelude</a>: <b>meadow land</b> standardized to <b>meadow-land</b> (lads had crossed the sunny <b>meadow-land</b> of +childhood and stood by the gate)</p> +<p><a href="#P2">Page 7</a>: Added quotes (<b>“It</b> has been so long since I saw you that you +have almost grown out of my knowledge.... You must be fifteen +years <b>old.”</b>)</p> +<p><a href="#P4">Page 8</a>: <b>anyone</b> standardized to <b>any one</b> (supposing you try to forget that <b>any one</b> has +ever told you anything about it)</p> +<p><a href="#P5">Page 9</a>: <b>every thing</b> standardized to <b>everything</b> (We may go even farther and say with Mr. Grant +Allen that <b>everything</b> high and ennobling in our +nature springs directly from the fact of sex.)</p> +<p><a href="#P6">Page 13</a>: <b>microscrope</b> changed to <b>microscope</b> (they are not visible except with the aid of a +<b>microscope</b>)</p> +<p><a href="#P7">Page 14</a>: Changed period to comma after <b>to-night</b> (No one ever +talked to me as you have <b>to-night,</b> and I am sure +it makes me want to be better.)</p> +<p><a href="#P8">Page 20</a>: Changed single quote to double (that will bring a blush to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to +<b>come.”</b>)</p> +<p><a href="#P9">Page 20</a>: Changed ending single quote to double (the doctor handed him, and then with another +“Good <b>night,”</b> he walked away in the darkness.)</p> +<p><a href="#P10">Page 24</a>: <b>plesaantness</b> changed to <b>pleasantness</b> (“all her ways are <b>pleasantness</b>, +and all her paths are peace.”)</p> +<p><a href="#P11">Page 26</a>: Added comma after <b>mouth</b> (Your eyes, hair, <b>mouth,</b> chin, your stature, figure, +complexion, your talents, capabilities)</p> +<p><a href="#P12">Page 27</a>: <b>prehaps</b> changed to <b>perhaps</b> (You have +observed them in yourself, though you <b>perhaps</b> have +not understood them.)</p> +<p><a href="#P13">Page 31</a>: <b>tobacco using</b> standardized to <b>tobacco-using</b> (proofs are accumulating of the evil +results to the children of <b>tobacco-using</b> parents)</p> +<p><a href="#P14">Page 36</a>: <b>transmissable</b> changed to <b>transmissible</b> (We also learn that the effects of education +are <b>transmissible</b>)</p> +<p><a href="#P15">Advertisements</a>: Removed extraneous quote after <b>youth</b> (I can conscientiously recommend it to all who are interested in the physical and +moral welfare of <b>youth.</b>––<i>C. A. Dorman, M. D.</i>)</p> +<p><a href="#P16">Advertisements</a>: <b>M D.</b> changed to <b>M. D.</b> (“Most charmingly written.”––<i>Alice B. Stockham, <b>M. D.</b>, Chicago.</i>)</p> +</div> +<hr class='tb' /> +<hr class='major' /> + +<!-- generated by ppg.rb version: ppg0530a --> +<!-- timestamp: Sat May 30 15:39:39 -0400 2009 --> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Almost A Man, by Mary Wood-Allen + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALMOST A MAN *** + +***** This file should be named 29056-h.htm or 29056-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/0/5/29056/ + +Produced by Meredith Bach, Katherine Ward and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Almost A Man + +Author: Mary Wood-Allen + +Release Date: June 6, 2009 [EBook #29056] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALMOST A MAN *** + + + + +Produced by Meredith Bach, Katherine Ward and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + + + + + ALMOST A MAN. + + BY + MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D. + + Author of TEACHING TRUTH, CHILD-CONFIDENCE REWARDED, THE + MAN WONDERFUL IN THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, etc. + + + "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" + DAVID. + + "Every true man is a cause, a country and an age." + EMERSON. + + "God on thee + Abundantly his gifts hath also poured; + Inward and outward both his image fair." + MILTON. + + + PUBLISHED BY + WOOD-ALLEN PUBLISHING CO. + ANN ARBOR, MICH. + + + COPYRIGHTED BY + MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D. + 1895. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + PAGE + Prelude iii + Almost a Man 5 + A Gateway and a Gift 22 + The White Cross 40 + + + + +PRELUDE. + + +Two lads had crossed the sunny meadow-land of childhood and stood by the +gate, at the entrance to the rougher paths of youth leading up to the +grander heights of maturity. They glanced backward, but not with regret, +for their eyes shone with eagerness to climb the upward way. As they +waited, an angel came bearing a gift for each, which he gave them, +saying: "I have brought you a wondrous gift, not for yourselves but for +others. Listen." + +And they bent their heads and listened. And one said: "I hear most +entrancing music. It thrills my very being. It is for me, for me." + +But the angel said: "Listen again. Shut your ears to those bewildering +tones and you will hear a deeper, holier strain." + +But the youth said: "No, I hear only that melody which speaks to my own +heart. I can hear nothing else." + +The other youth too took the gift and, bending his head at the command +of the angel, said: "I hear that sweet entrancing strain which speaks to +myself, and which promises me pleasure; but deeper than all that I hear +a tone soft, sweet and low, that sounds like the voices of happy +children, and of a mother singing to her babe." + +The angel smiled. "It is for them," he said, "that you must keep your +gift. And in the years to come that music will be to you the sweetest in +the world." + +So the youths started on their devious ways through the hilly land of +youth. There were bird-songs and flowers; there were bright paths, and +dark ones; there were sunny by-paths, which ended in dreamy forests; +there were pitfalls in unexpected places; there was often sorrow where +they looked for joy, and failure where they expected success. And the +one listened oft to the entrancing music of his angelic gift, and was +led to think only of himself, and his eye lost its fire, his feet often +stumbled, and the days and nights had no pleasure for him. As he reached +the heights of maturity he was met by a bright creature who laughed with +great joy when he offered her his love and said exultantly: "I have kept +myself pure for you," and he, knowing his own dark secrets, could make +no reply but hung his head and was silent. And, thus silent, he heard no +more the bewildering music of his youth, but instead there came to his +ears the sound of a broken-hearted woman's sobs, and the weeping of +children mourning the birthright that had been lost for them in their +father's wayward youth. And the man said sighingly: + + "O that I had my innocence again + My untouched honor. But I wish in vain." + +But the other lad turned a deaf ear to the brain-bewildering music and +listened with his soul for the happy melodies of the future. And his eye +grew brighter and his strength increased and his paths were straight and +clean, and as he neared the heights of maturity he was met by one whose +robe was shining in its brightness and who whispered: "I have kept +myself pure for you." + +And gladly he answered: "And I for you;" and so their lives became one, +and the melody of happy children's voices drew nearer and nearer, and +listening to the sweet voice of the mother singing to her babe, and +looking into the bright and rosy faces that with every glance and motion +thanked him for their dower of health and honor, he blessed the great +Creator from whom he had received the wondrous gift of potential +fatherhood, and gave thanks that he had wisely listened to the angel's +voice bidding him keep his gift for those whose life, in the years to +come, was to be his holiest possession. + + + + +ALMOST A MAN. + +By Mary Wood-Allen, M. D. + + +"Let me take your book of quotations, please." + +"Certainly, if I can find it. O, I remember. I let Susie Glenn take it. +No doubt I can find it in her desk." + +As she spoke Miss Bell walked to the desk and, finding the desired book, +took possession of it. An open note dropped from it and fell upon the +floor. Picking it up Miss Bell read: "My darling little sweetheart," and +glancing at the close saw the signature, "Carl." Sending of notes in +school was forbidden, therefore Miss Bell had no compunction of +conscience in taking possession of this one, and, on the impulse of the +moment, read it aloud to Miss Lane, her fellow-teacher. It was not only +sentimental in tone but there were mysterious phrases which seemed to +hold a deep and sinful significance. The women looked at each other with +sorrowful faces. + +"What shall I do about it?" asked Miss Bell. + +"What a depth of wickedness it reveals!" exclaimed Miss Lane. "Who would +have imagined that such a nice appearing boy as Carl Woodford could be +so base? And Susie Glenn too, such a shy, modest little creature as she +seems." + +"Do you suppose it is really as bad as it seems to us? Those expressions +which appear to indicate such--such almost criminal intimacy perhaps +they do not understand fully." + +"Don't you believe it," said Miss Lane. "I tell you these children are +wiser in sin than we older people can imagine. That boy needs to be +whipped within an inch of his life, the little reprobate! I'd give him +such a lecture as would make his eyes open wide for once. I'd make him +understand that he'd better not let me catch him in such mischief again. +And I'd tell Mrs. Glenn about it so that she could punish Susie." + +"I really am afraid that the result would not be what we wish. Suppose +we go and talk it over with Dr. Barrett. Maybe she can tell us what to +do." + +Dr. Barrett received the ladies with cordiality and professed herself +willing to aid them in the solution of their problem. She did not appear +as shocked as they did, and even smiled a little as Miss Lane, in +indignant tones, read aloud the offending note. + +"Don't you think that little rascal should be nearly annihilated?" she +asked, turning to the Doctor. + +"I think he should be instructed," replied the latter. "Will you send +him to me, Miss Bell?" + +"Most gladly, but I don't believe he will come." + +"Yes he will, if you don't frighten him beforehand. Don't say a word to +him about the affair, but send him with a note to me and tell him to +wait for an answer." + +The next evening Carl appeared at the Doctor's residence with the note +from Miss Bell. "I am to wait for an answer," he said. + +Dr. Barrett only nodded as she wrote on steadily for a moment, seeming +too much engrossed in her work to notice him. Then she read the note, +thought a moment, excused herself and left the room. Returning +immediately she said, "It will be half an hour before the answer is +ready. Can you wait?" + +"O certainly." + +"Then sit down here and look over the Youth's Companion while I finish +my letter." + +For some moments there was silence and then the Doctor, laying down her +pen, turned to the boy and said, pleasantly; "You are Carl Woodford, are +you not?" + +"Yes, ma'am." + +"It has been so long since I saw you that you have almost grown out of +my knowledge. You are getting to be almost a man. You must be fifteen +years old." + +"Not quite. I will be next June." + +"Almost a man," said Dr. Barrett softly as she looked thoughtfully into +the fire. After a moment's silence she asked, "Carl, what is it to be a +man?" + +The boy drew himself up with a self-conscious air as he replied. + +"Why, to have your growth, and get into business for yourself." + +"Well, that is not quite it," said the Doctor smiling, "for I have my +growth and am in business for myself, and yet I am not a man." + +"Maybe it means having a mustache," said Carl, with a slight flush. + +"That has something to do with it certainly, but Mrs. Flynn has a +mustache, and she is not a man." + +"Well, I don't know how to explain it then," said Carl. + +"You have studied grammar, will you parse the word man?" + +"Man is a common noun, masculine gender, third----" + +"What does masculine gender mean?" + +"It means male." + +"Then to be a man means to be a male. How does the grammar define +gender?" + +"The distinction of nouns with regard to sex." + +"Have you studied physiology?" + +"Yes'm." + +"Was it the physiology of man or woman?" + +"Why, it didn't say anything but physiology." + +"You studied, then, only those organs in which men and women are alike, +as in their muscular and nervous systems, and in the organs of +digestion; in fact you learned only of the organs which are for the +preservation of the individual. You learned nothing of them in regard to +sex, which is termed special physiology." + +A wave of color was creeping over Carl's face, seeing which the Doctor +said: + +"As you have never studied this special physiology supposing you try to +forget that any one has ever told you anything about it, and let us for +a few minutes talk of it as of God's laws. We believe God to be pure, +and we cannot believe that he would make a law that was founded on +impurity. It is true we are able to think of his laws in an impure way, +but that is our fault, not his. Let us now try to think his pure +thoughts after him. If there are two sexes created by the Almighty he +must have a pure purpose in creating them. We seldom think how much of +beauty and melody and loveliness is due to sex. + +"It is because of sex that we are gathered in families and enjoy all the +delights of home. It is because of sex that we have ties of kindred, +brothers, sisters, father, mother, uncles, aunts and cousins. Think of +the pleasant home gatherings at Christmas or Thanksgiving, or upon +family birthdays, with all the relatives, old and young, meeting in love +and sympathy; think of the sweet prattle of children in the home; think +of the tender ministrations of mother or sister in times of sorrow or +illness or death, and remember that these are possible because of sex. +Men may build themselves fine club houses where they congregate to smoke +or drink or eat together, but these are not homes. Women may go away by +themselves into a convent and give up the world, but in so doing they +give up the home; for in a real true home there must be parents and +children, and this comes through sex. We may go even farther and say +with Mr. Grant Allen that everything high and ennobling in our nature +springs directly from the fact of sex. He claims that to it 'we owe our +love of color, of graceful forms, of melodious sound, of rhythmical +motion, the evolution of music, of poetry, of romance, of painting, of +sculpture, of decorative art, of dramatic entertainment. From it,' he +says, 'springs the love of beauty, around it all beautiful arts circle +as their centre. Its subtle aroma pervades all literature, and to it we +owe the heart and all that is best within it.' + +"We read of knights of old fighting for 'fayre ladye,' of heroes who +died to save wives and children; we cannot take up a book of poetry +without realizing how love of men and women has been the inspiration of +the poet in all ages. And this is not all that we owe to sex. In all +organic life we find the same force at work. The song of the nightingale +is a call to his mate, the chirp of cricket, the song of the thrush, the +note of the grasshopper, every charming voice in wild nature are notes +of love, and were it not for these, field and forest would be silent. +Among the animals we can trace the beauty of form and of covering to the +same source. And even in the inanimate world of plants and trees we find +sex as the source of life and beauty. The bright tinted flowers are the +homes of the father and mother and babies of the plant and without the +male and female principle in plants there would be no bud or blossom and +no fruit. Remember when you see the beauty of the apple orchard in the +spring and the glowing fruit in the autumn that these are the expression +of sex-life in the tree." + +"My!" exclaimed Carl, "I never thought of all that before." + +"I presume not, and many who are older than you have no thoughts of sex +but those which are low and vile. But when you consider how the same +principle reaches through all nature, and upon it depends so much that +is beautiful and charming you cannot believe that is in itself vile and +unholy, can you? If we are to think God's thoughts after him we must +come to look upon sex as something to be thought of and spoken of only +with reverence, never to be jested about or debased in any way. You +begin to see that more is involved in the coming into manhood than you +had supposed. But we have not gone over the whole matter yet. You have +read the first chapter of Genesis how that God made man in his own +image, and out of the dust of the earth. We do not suppose that he made +him out of dirt and water, as a child makes mud-pies, but we may accept +this as a statement of the scientific fact that in man are found the +same elements as in the earth, such as iron, soda, lime, etc. What we +want to think of now is the statement that God created man by his direct +power. Then we are told he made woman also. These are the first living +human beings of whom we have record. Who is the third?" + +"Cain." + +"And who made Cain?" + +"God," answered Carl glibly, as if that must be the only orthodox +answer. + +"In the same way that he made Adam and Eve?" + +Carl blushed and was silent. + +"You were not embarrassed when I spoke of the creation of Adam and Eve, +you have no reason to be embarrassed when I speak of the creation of +Cain. All was in accordance with the divine will, and must therefore be +right. We cannot say positively that God thought this or that, but we +have a right to judge from his acts what his purposes were. We have a +right to suppose that he created the earth intending to people it with +human beings. Of course every possible plan for doing this was open to +him. He might have created each individual as he did Adam, but what +would have been the result? We should have stood, each one alone, in +selfish solitariness, like a lot of ten-pins, able to knock each other +down but not to help each other up. Each one would have been thinking +only of himself and his own selfish interests. This plan could not +commend itself to a compassionate Creator, and we can imagine that he +would say to himself: 'That would never do. I must put these, my +children, in such relation to each other that they will have love for +each other; that they will be bound by ties so strong that nothing can +break them; they must be created in such a way that they will also +understand their relation to me and love me as their life-giver. To do +this I will share with them my greatest power, that of creation. I will +let them help me people the world. By this creative power they shall +come to understand how I, their heavenly Father, love them, and yearn +over them, and by their dependence as children upon their parents they +shall learn to depend upon and trust me.' From the plan God adopted for +peopling the earth we may suppose this to have been his process of +thought. So you see that sex comes as a wondrous gift from God, a gift +endowed with a marvelous power, and therefore to be held most sacred. +When I spoke of you as being almost a man it was with the thought that +now is being conferred upon you this gift of sex." + +Carl looked up with some surprise. "Why, I have always been a boy." + +"True. And a boy is a being who will become a man. But he is not endowed +with the functions of sex until he is about fourteen years old. Then sex +begins to make itself felt in his whole being. He grows taller rapidly; +he gains in breadth; he begins to see the long-looked-for mustache; he +notices the growth of the special organs of sex; he begins to feel more +manly; to enjoy the society of girls as never before; and desires to +treat them with more attention. This is a time when, if he is wrongly +taught, he may fall into great wrong-doing and injure himself, and not +that alone, but those who are to come after him. I have not yet told you +of the great responsibilities that come with this gift of sex." + +Dr. Barrett rose and, bringing a book from the shelves, opened it and +showed Carl an illustration, saying; "Did you ever see such a picture as +this?" + +[Illustration] + +"What are they?" asked he. "They look like pollywogs." + +"As much like them as anything. But they are not pollywogs. They have a +bigger sounding name than that. They are called _spermatozoa_, or each +one is a _spermatozoon_. They are so tiny that they are not visible +except with the aid of a microscope, and yet they are alive and very +active. They live and move in a fluid called _semen_, and they are the +living principle contributed by the male to the formation of a new +creature. Each one contains in itself all the particular traits, +characteristics or talents which the father would confer on the child of +which this spermatozoon would form a part. You are like your father in +some things, I suppose." + +"Yes, I am like papa in size and in my love for mathematics. He says I +have his quick temper, too." + +"That leads me to speak of another fact. You see that you were a part of +your father during his whole life, and you were affected by all that +affected him. You were changed or modified by his habits. If he tried to +curb his quick temper, it has made it easier for you to control +yourself; but if he allowed it full sway, it has made it harder for you. +If he were truthful and honest, it has made it easy for you to be the +same; but if he were wild and dissipated, it would make it easier for +you to yield to the same temptations." + +"Was that what he meant when he said he was not surprised that Will Grey +was so bad a boy, for his father was a very wild young man?" + +"Yes, that was exactly what he meant." + +"If that is so why don't fathers tell their boys about it so that they +can behave better when they are young?" + +"That is just what I think they ought to do, but unfortunately people +have thought they must not talk of these things to young folks for fear +it will make them bad instead of good." + +"Well, I guess that would depend upon the way they told it. Now they +don't tell it right, but leave the boys to be told in wrong ways, and +that really does lead them to be bad. No one ever talked to me as you +have to-night, and I am sure it makes me want to be better." + +[Illustration] + +"That ought to be the effect, and I believe it would be if boys were +only 'told right,' as you say. But I have told you only half the story. +Here is another picture. These are called _ova_. One is an _ovum_, and +these are the principle the mother gives to the future child. They are +greatly magnified. It would take 240 of them lying side by side to make +a row an inch long, so we say they are 1/240 of an inch in +diameter, but tiny as they are, each ovum contains all the traits or +talents that the mother gives to the child of which this particular ovum +may form a part. Your mother is English, your father American. Their +childhood and youth were spent thousands of miles apart, and yet both +were working by the habits of their lives to create you in your peculiar +traits and talents. Are you like your parents in any of their +capabilities?" + +"Yes, I am like mother in her love for music; you know she is a fine +musician." + +"Yes, and in the cultivation of her own musical ability she made it +easier for you to learn music; just as your father, in his study as an +engineer, has given you a love for mathematics." + +"But my grandfather and great-grandfather were engineers, and I am going +to be one, too." + +"It is true that you inherit from your grandparents, also, but it must +be through your parents, and they may have changed the direction of +the inheritance. This important fact you should know and remember. +You can change yourself by education so that the inheritance of your +children may be quite changed. For example, if you know that you +lack perseverance, you can, by constantly making a mighty effort to +overcome this defect, compel yourself to persevere, and this would +tend to give your children perseverance. So you see we need not +despair because we have inherited faults from our ancestors, but we +should determine all the more that we will not pass these defects on +to later generations." + +"I guess that is what Dr. Brice meant when he said that mother's good +care of her health had overcome in us children to a great extent the +tendency to consumption which is in her family. Nearly all my cousins on +her side die with it, but when she was a little girl her father made her +live out of doors all the time and she grew strong, and we none of us +seem to have any tendency to consumption." + +"You see then the value of caring for yourself in youth, not only for +your own sake but for that of your children. Your mother did not know +that she would ever have children to be benefitted by her out-door life. +But one day she met a young man who pleased her, and as they grew to +know each other better they came to love each other so that they wished +to leave home and friends and make their own home and live their united +lives separate and apart from all the rest of the world. So they were +married, as we say. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman under +the sanction of the law. This is the closest and most sacred human +relation. In this relation the _spermatozoon_ of the man unites with the +germ or _ovum_ of the woman and a new life is begun. When your parents +knew that such a little life had begun in their home they felt a great +and holy joy, and desired that every good might surround it in its +development. You were the first to come into your father's home. After +your life had begun you were still so small as not to be visible to the +naked eye, and would have been lost had you come into the world. But a +home had been prepared for you in your mother's body, where day by day +you grew and grew. The food which she ate nourished you as well as +herself. The air which she breathed was life to you as well as to her. + +"You have seen the father-bird bringing food to the mother-bird as she +sits upon her eggs and waits for the birdlings to come forth, and you +have thought it a pretty sight to watch his tender care of her. Even so +your father watched over your mother and you. He provided everything as +pleasant as possible, he removed every care from her path so that she +might be happy and so make you happy. His love for her took on a new and +strange tenderness it had not known before. And she, holding you warm +and close in the embrace of her body, thought of you and loved you. She +wondered how you would look; she dreamed of you; she fancied she could +feel the touch of your fluttering fingers; she made your little wardrobe +and with each stitch wove in some tender thought of the baby whom she +had never seen. Then one day she cried out with great anguish of body +but joy of heart, 'O my baby is coming.' Then through long hours she +suffered, going down almost to the gates of death that you might have +life. But she never murmured; in spite of all her pain and anguish of +body her very soul was full of rejoicing that soon she would hold you in +her arms. When all those hours of peril and anxiety were past and you +were laid in your mother's arms, your father came and bent over you both +with a measureless love, and looking into your little face they knew +what the Scripture meant when it said, 'And they twain shall be one +flesh,' for were not you a living fulfillment of that saying? You were a +part of each united in a living being who belonged to them both. Then +for the first time could they realize, even dimly, the yearning, tender +love of their heavenly Father who had granted to them to know by +experience his feelings towards his children." + +Great tears had gathered in the boy's eyes as she talked, and now with +choking voice he said, "I don't think I can ever be disobedient again, +Dr. Barrett. I did not understand it all as I do now. You know we only +hear these things talked of among the boys, and I had come to feel that +there was some reason why I ought to be ashamed of my father and mother; +but it all looks so different to me now. I wish you could talk to the +other boys as you have to me." + +"It may not be possible for me to do so, although I should be glad to do +it, but you can help them to think more truly on these subjects. You can +especially help them to treat women and girls with more respect than +they often do, because you can see how an injury to any girl is an +injury to the whole world." + +"I don't quite see that," said Carl. + +"You can see that if any one had injured your mother in her girlhood it +would have been an injury to all her children, can you not?" + +"O yes." + +"And that injury might be passed on to future generations. There lived a +poor girl, about a hundred years ago, who was uncared for by good people +and wronged by evil ones, and to-day she is known as a 'mother of +criminals,' and no one can tell where the mischief will end. You would +feel very indignant if you knew that some one had done your mother an +injury in her girlhood, and you would feel the same way should any one +wrong your sisters." + +"I knocked Bill Jones down last week because he said something to my +sister Kate." + +"You felt a righteous anger and manifested it. Well, in all probability +you will some day marry. If so, there is in the world to-day the girl +who will be your wife. How do you want her to be treated by the boys who +are her school-companions? Do you like to think that they are rough with +her, or playing at lovering with her? Is it a pleasant thought that she +is allowing them to caress her or write her silly sentimental notes?" + +Carl's face was scarlet, but he answered bravely; "No, it isn't." + +The Doctor continued. "Some day, in all likelihood, a little girl-child +will climb upon your knee and call you papa. No creature can ever be to +you what that little daughter will be. If any one should injure +her----." + +"I'd kill him," broke in Carl hotly. + +"If you feel that way, dear boy, you should remember that every girl is +some one's daughter, perhaps some one's sister, will probably be some +one's wife and some one's mother, so that all girls should be sacred to +you, treated with chivalrous courtesy and protected even as you feel you +would protect those who may belong especially to you." + +"But don't you believe in boys and girls being friends at all?" + +"Most assuredly I do. Nothing is more charming than the frank +comradeship of girls and boys, and that is why I am so sorry to see them +spoil it with sentimentality. They ought to be good friends, helping +each other, having jolly good times together, but never in ways that +will bring a blush to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to +come." + +A rap sounded on the door and the maid entered with a note which she +gave to the doctor, who handed it to Carl, saying, "Here is the note for +Miss Bell. I have kept you waiting a long time, but I hope it has not +been unprofitable." + +"Indeed it has not. I am ever so much obliged to you, I am sure." + +"And if you ever wish to talk to me again you will feel free to come, +will you not?" + +"Yes, ma'am, I surely will," answered the lad with a frank clasp of the +hand. + +"Wait a moment," said the doctor, "I have just thought of a little book +that I am sure you will be interested in reading. It is called 'A +Gateway and a Gift,' and it deals with some of the questions we have +been talking about this evening. You can lend it to some of your boy +friends if you wish." + +"Thank you," said Carl, taking the book which the doctor handed him, and +then with another "Good night," he walked away in the darkness. + +The note which he gave to Miss Bell the next morning read merely: + +"Don't say anything to Carl. Just wait." + +If Miss Bell had seen a note slipped by Carl into Susie Glenn's hand an +hour later she might have thought it an evidence that the doctor's plan +had failed. But had she read the note her opinion would have been that +it had succeeded. It read: + + "Dear Susie:--It was real mean of me to write that note + yesterday. Will you forgive me? Say, Susie, I think all this + nonsense about lovers and sweethearts is silly rot, don't you? + Let's be just friends. Respectfully yours, + + CARL." + +Susie's answer was short but to the point. It read: + + "All right. Let's. + + SUSIE." + +Several months later Miss Bell and Miss Lane called again on Dr. +Barrett. + +"Have you come with another problem?" asked the doctor. + +"No, we have come to report progress and to learn, if possible, just how +it has come about. There has been a wonderful change in the school. The +girls and boys are no less friendly, but it is without that silly +sentimentality which was so annoying. They are now just real good +comrades, and seem to help each other in being orderly, polite, and +studious. How did you do it?" + +"Perhaps all credit is not due to me, but I will say that I gave Carl +the instruction I thought he needed and he has passed the good word +along. Several of the boys have met with me once a month to study +concerning themselves, and I can see that they have grown to have a +reverence for themselves and a deep regard for all womanhood. Carl was +in last evening, and said, 'Dr. Barrett, I am so glad Miss Bell sent me +with that note to you, for your talk to me that night has changed my +whole life, I know. I feel so much cleaner all through, and have so much +more respect for myself. And I think so differently of girls and women, +and especially of my mother, and I realize as I never did before how +important a thing it is to be almost a man.'" + + + + +A GATEWAY AND A GIFT. + + +Three gateways span the path of earthly existence: one at the entrance +which we call the gate of birth; one at the close which we call the gate +of death, and one at the entrance to the wondrous Land of the Teens, +which we call the gate of manhood or of womanhood. At each of these +gates a wonderful gift is presented to each individual. At the gate of +birth it is the gift of earthly life, at death it is the gift of +continued life, and at the gate which opens into the Land of the Teens +it is the gift of creative life. You see that each gift is of life. + +The path of earthly life, beginning at the gateway of birth, passes +through the sunny meadow-land of Childhood, and also through a strange, +mysterious land to which we have referred as the Land of the Teens, +before reaching the Heights of Maturity. This Land of the Teens is +peculiar in that the inhabitants are neither children nor adults, and +yet, with the inexperience of children, they have many of the desires +and emotions of grown-up people. This constitutes an element of great +danger, while another source of danger is the fact that adequate +guidance is not always given in this transition period, or, if +proffered, is proudly rejected by those who think that being in their +"teens" makes them wise above that which is written. + +When we visit foreign lands we are grateful for guidance and direction, +especially if we are not acquainted with the language; so, if we do not +hire a guide we, at least, buy a guide-book. It seems to me, then, that +we ought not to rebel against guides through the Land of the Teens, +realizing that one who has traveled through a country can point out +beauties and warn against dangers which would not be recognized by the +inexperienced traveler. + +We can visit England, Italy, or Germany many times, and at each journey +can profit by former experiences, but we pass through the Land of the +Teens but once, and the lessons we learn on that journey we can only +utilize for the benefit of others. This is why many people on the +Heights of Maturity are anxious to light a beacon for those who are +still in their "teens." They would gladly help others to shun the +by-paths where they have met disaster, for they have learned the very +solemn truth that in youth one is determining what maturity shall be. +The seeds sown in the sunny meadow of Childhood and in the broader +fields of the Land of the Teens are harvested in the uplands of +Maturity, and the harvest is always greater than the seed sown. The +petulance and pouting of the child hardens into the gruffness, +bad-temper, and moroseness of the man; the idleness and shirking of the +youth becomes the shiftlessness and unreliability of the adult; the +boy's neglect of duty and unwearied search for pleasure may be harvested +in dissipation and ruin in mature life. It is, then, a very serious +thing to be passing through one's "teens," and the wise youth will +welcome any guide who will show him a safe path. May I claim the +privilege of acting for a little time in that capacity? + +The King of this land has made laws for its government and wisdom, has +builded paths wherein one may walk in safety. The laws made by the King +are not harsh and cruel, but are beneficent, and he denies no real good. +He says to the traveler, "You belong to me, and I am desirous of your +highest welfare; therefore, obey me and you shall be rewarded; disobey +me and you shall be punished." It needs some moral courage to bravely +stay in the path of Wisdom, for there are many allurements to leave it; +more particularly as the inexperience of the traveler does not warn him +of the dangers of following pleasures that lead away from wisdom's ways. +The guide worthy of trust must not fail to point out these dangers; and +the prudent youth will listen to the warning voice and walk in Wisdom's +ways, for "all her ways are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." + +We talk much about our personal liberty, and assert that we have a right +to live in Maine or California, but we have not that much liberty in +regard to dwelling in the Land of the Teens. If we are ever to reach the +Heights of Maturity we must spend ten years in the Teens. We cannot sell +our domain, nor give it away, and we cannot even hire some one to +cultivate it for us. This being the case, it becomes important for us +to study the soil and how best to develop its advantages. + +We find that the land has three divisions: the Domain of the Body, the +Field of Intellect, and the Garden of the Heart,--the same divisions +that exist in the Sunny Land of Childhood, and that we have been +cultivating ever since we were born. These are the kingdoms which came +to us with the gift of life. We recognize that the gifts which come to +us at birth and death are of life for ourselves alone, and we have had +no thought during our childish years except to develop our powers for +our own advantage. It may be we have not felt perfectly satisfied with +our lot in life, but we have felt that we were not responsible for this. +We did not choose to be born in America instead of Asia, though we do +not rebel at this fact. We did not select to be white instead of black. +It is not our fault if we are born of a family in which consumption is +an inheritance; and, on the other hand, we can claim no credit to +ourselves if we have inherited strong bodies with healthful tendencies. +It is our misfortune, and not our fault, if we are not quite perfectly +poised by nature; it is our good fortune, not our foresight, if we have +genius instead of mediocrity. The gifts that come to us through +inheritance are ours without blame or credit to us but they bring with +them the responsibility of their use. We are responsible for maintaining +or increasing our dower of health by obedience to physical laws; +responsible for the cultivation of our intellects, for the development +of inherited virtues, and the annihilation of inherited vices. + +If you study your characteristics and talents you find that they repeat +those of your ancestry. Your eyes, hair, mouth, chin, your stature, +figure, complexion, your talents, capabilities, tendencies, your likes +and dislikes, your faults as well as your virtues are repetitions of +those who preceded you in this living network of existence of which you +form a part. If you are not like father or mother you may be like +grandfather or great-grandmother. If you do not find yourself repeating +the characteristics or personality of any one ancestor, you may find +yourself a composite photograph of several. And even if you cannot trace +in yourself a likeness to any family representative, you may still be +assured that from some of them your traits have come to you. You have +only to recall the complexity of your sources of inheritance and then +remember how many words can be spelled from the twenty-six letters of +the alphabet to see that you can hardly measure the peculiar forces of +mind and body that may come to you though that power of transmission +which we call heredity. + +It may occur to you to ask why, if we are not responsible for our +inheritances, is it needful to give them any particular thought? There +are two reasons why we should consider the good and bad characteristics +which may be ours through inheritance. In the first place, heredity is +not fatality, and we are not absolutely obliged to follow the paths +which our ancestors marked out for us, and in the second place, we can, +by understanding our own characters, mark out better paths for our +posterity. We are not only receivers of life, but we may be also givers +of life, and this is the gift that comes to you at the entrance to the +Land of the Teens. Can you imagine a more important period in the life +of an individual than that point where is intrusted to him the physical +powers which make him the arbiter of the destiny of those who come after +him? + +The gift of possible life for others is even more marvelous than that of +actual life for one's self and brings with it greater responsibility. It +is accompanied with marked physical changes. You have observed them in +yourself, though you perhaps have not understood them. Up to this time +you have been but a child, and all your physical forces have been +occupied in keeping you alive and growing. But you are now to become a +man, with powers that will unite you to the race; powers that will give +you the ability to form a new link in the living chain that now ends +with you. You have noticed the rapid unfolding of your bodily powers; +you have become conscious of new and strange emotions; you have, it may +be, found yourself becoming irritable and have felt bewildered with the +new aspects of life and have wondered what it all means. It may be you +have felt as did one boy who said to his mother, to whom he confided all +his problems of life: "Mamma, I want to kick and cry, and I don't know +why." The mother knew. She understood the strange unfolding that was +going on in his physical organism, and she kindly explained it to him, +telling him that he must have patience with himself, and govern himself +by his judgment and not allow himself to be carried away by impulse, +assuring him that God would hold him as responsible for purity of +character as He would the dear sister of whom they all felt so careful. +He should reverence his manhood, even as he expected her to reverence +her womanhood. This is necessary, not only for the good of each +individual, but also for the eternal interest of future generations. + +This entrance into the Land of the Teens is a serious, even a dangerous +period, for if you have not had right instruction you may be led, or +fall into habits of wrong doing or thinking. If you are rightly taught +you will begin to have an added reverence for yourselves in that God is +dignifying you with new powers that will bring you more nearly into +co-partnership with himself. These powers, the most sacred of all that +have come to you, need years for development, and should be guarded by +pure thoughts and kept for their holy office of promoting the earthly +usefulness and eternal blessedness of those who hereafter will owe both +earthly and immortal life to you. + +I have said that we are not responsible for the dower of virtues or of +vices which are ours by inheritance, but we are responsible for the +inheritances of our children, and this is a most solemn thought. Do you +not begin to see that we cannot value ourselves too highly if we have +the right idea of what our real worth is? We can scarcely overestimate +the results of our own deeds. We may think it does not matter if we do +not always tell the exact truth; if at some times we equivocate and at +others exaggerate, but when we remember that truth is the foundation of +character, and realize that by our little equivocations or exaggerations +we may be weakening the foundations of many who are from us to receive +their talents and tendencies, we begin to see that the matter is a very +serious one. I am sometimes told that young people will not be +influenced by a consideration for the welfare of unborn generations +whose existence is very problematical in their thought; but my +observation is that young folks are much more sensible than we give them +credit for being. More than one young man has said to me: "I was never +taught that my conduct and thought would impress themselves upon my +children, but now that I see that such is the case, I am sure that I +will hereafter be more careful of my life than I ever have been." + +This field of investigation is a broad one, and even if you never have +an opportunity to study the subject scientifically you can still be of +incalculable benefit to humanity by ever remembering that you are living +for an earthly, as well as for a heavenly immortality. The young people +who to-day are in the Land of the Teens are they who are determining the +characteristics of the men and women of the Twentieth Century, creating +the standards of thought and action, the methods of business, the level +of morals, in fact the whole status of society in the world of a hundred +years to come. + +It is a very wonderful fact that God has so created us that the result +of our deeds is not limited to our own lives, but makes its impress upon +those who are to come after us. We are not separate units, but are links +in a living chain of endless transmission. This fact makes our lives of +far greater consequence than if, in their results, they were limited to +ourselves. If we are anxious concerning the future of our country, we +may take to heart the thought that it will be what we ourselves have +made it. The Bible expresses the same idea in many ways. "Whatsoever a +man soweth, that shall he also reap," does not mean merely that his own +future will be influenced by his conduct, but that his future in his +children will be a record which he himself has made. + +Men often make their wills and bequeath to their children their gold or +houses and lands, but sometimes against their wills they bequeath to +their children a bodily dwelling of inferior material, and so poor in +construction that it very soon falls into decay through disease, or in +very early life becomes a tottering ruin. It would seem rather amusing +to us if one should sit down and write his will and say: "I bequeath to +my daughter Mary my yellow, blotched and pimpled complexion, resulting +from my own bad habits of life. I bequeath to my son John, the effects +of my habits of dissipation in my youth, with a like love for alcoholic +liquors and tobacco. I bequeath to my son Harry my petulant, irritable +disposition, and the rheumatic gout which I have brought upon myself by +disobedience to physical law; and to my daughter Elizabeth, my trembling +nerves and weak moral nature." But this is, in truth, what many parents +do, and the children find it a sad, instead of an amusing fact. + +On the other hand, if one has led a life of uprightness and morality, +and has obeyed physical law, his children will inherit his physical +vigor, and his moral stamina. It becomes of exceeding great importance +that these facts should be known to the young, in order that they may +endeavor to overcome their own weaknesses, and strengthen their own good +qualities for the sake of future generations. + +This heredity, the transmission of the qualities of the parent to the +child, is found among plants and animals as well as in the human race. +The seed of a plant produces another plant of the same kind, and the +farmer knows when he sows wheat, that his harvest will be wheat, and he +should know just as certainly that if he "sows wild oats" in his youth +he may expect "wild oats" in his children. The character of the food we +eat, the air we breathe, the occupations we follow, the habits we +create, are the forces which shape not only our own destiny, but create +the tendencies of our children. + +With these thoughts in mind, the question of the use of narcotics +becomes one of great importance. There are few, if any, tobacco users +who are anxious that their boys should early begin the use of the weed. +But they do not realize the fact that in their own use of it they may +have diminished the vital force of these boys, transmitting a tendency +to disease, or perhaps an appetite for the tobacco itself, and not only +will the boys feel the effects, but the girls as well. As the thought of +men is turned in this direction, proofs are accumulating of the evil +results to the children of tobacco-using parents. A prominent physician +says: "I have never known an habitual tobacco user whose children did +not have deranged nerves, and sometimes weak minds. Shattered nervous +systems, for generations to come, may be the result of this indulgence. +The children of tobacco-using parents frequently die with infantile +paralysis. I have known two cases in which the crying of the baby could +not be stopped until the tobacco-pipe was placed between its lips." Dr. +Pidduck asserts that in no instance is the sin of the father more +strikingly visited upon his children than the sin of tobacco using. "The +enervation, the hypochondriasis, the hysteria, the insanity, the +dwarfish deformities, the consumption, the suffering lives, and early +deaths of the children of inveterate smokers bear ample testimony to the +feebleness and unsoundness of the constitution transmitted by this +pernicious habit." + +The effect of alcohol upon the child is equally marked, and from all +sides comes the testimony that the degenerations do not stop with the +individual, but pass on to succeeding generations. Sometimes the +influence is seen in the stunting of the growth, both mentally and +physically. Dr. Langden Downe reports several cases of this sort where +the children had lived to be twenty-two years old and still remained +infants, symmetrical in form, just able to stand beside a chair, utter a +few monosyllabic sounds, and to be amused with toys. Dr. F. R. Lees, +referring to the injury inflicted upon the liver by alcohol, says: "And +recollect, whatever injury you inflict upon this organ, to your +posterity the curse descends, and as is the father, so are the +children." Dr. Kerr asserts that the effects of injury to the mind and +body may not always show themselves in the drinker himself, yet it is +doubtful if his children ever entirely escape the effects in one form or +another. These effects may be manifest in insanity, or in a tendency to +diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, lungs, or other organs; or with +a like love for alcoholic stimulants. Not only may the child be weak in +body but also in intellect. It is the statement of a score of observant +physicians that the children of intemperate parents are apt to be +feeble in body and weak in mind. + +Another very striking thought in this connection is that while the +physical effects may not show in the individual himself, nor in his +children, they may be manifest in the deterioration of his grandchildren +and great-grandchildren. A prominent temperance advocate who was laid up +with rheumatic gout, which is apt to be the result of alcoholic +indulgence, replied to a friend who wondered that he, a drinker of cold +water, should suffer with this disease, "Yes, my ancestors drank the +liquor and I foot the bills." In 1834 the Parliament of the British +House of Commons made a report of intemperance in which they stated that +the evils of alcoholism "are cumulative in the amount of injury they +inflict, as intemperate parents, according to high medical testimony, +give a taint to their offspring before birth, and the poisonous stream +of spirits is conveyed through the milk of the mother to the infant at +the breast; so that the fountain of life, through which nature supplies +that pure and healthy nutriment of infancy, is poisoned at its very +source, and a diseased and vitiated appetite is thus created, which +grows with its growth, and strengthens with its increasing weakness and +decay." + +A tendency to commit suicide seems to be a marked bequest of an +inebriate parent to his children, and it is well to state that in the +opinion of medical men who are dealing with all forms of inebriety, the +evils resulting to the children may be transmitted by parents who have +never been noted for drunkenness. Continual moderate drinking keeps the +body so constantly under the influence of alcohol that a crowd of +nervous difficulties and disorders may be transmitted even more surely +than from the parent who has occasional sprees with long intervals of +sobriety between. It is not only through the drinking father that injury +is done to the children, but the mother may have a vitiated inheritance +from her father and transmit it to her children. + +When we recall the fact that one hundred thousand men fall into +drunkard's graves every year, we are appalled at the thought of that +vast army marching on to death and destruction. As we listen, we can, in +fancy, almost hear the tramp, tramp of that "mighty host advancing, +Satan leading on." In the front rank comes the one hundred thousand men +who shall fall into drunkard's graves this year, and behind them the one +hundred thousand men who are to fall next year. They come with sound of +revelry and song, and close beside them press a crowd of weeping wives +and mothers and little children, starved, crippled, and murdered, who +are to be fellow victims with the drunkard. Not very far back from the +front row come one hundred thousand young men in the very prime of +young, vigorous life, just beginning to drink their first glass of wine +or beer, with no intention of ever standing in that front row, yet +having started on the way. Back of them, one hundred little school boys +who think it manly to ape the follies of their predecessors. Back of +them, one hundred thousand little toddlers whose feet stagger in their +innocent helplessness. Back of them, one hundred thousand mothers with +babies in their arms. Oh, how sweetly those baby eyes look up into the +loving eyes that are brooding over them. Is it possible those baby brows +will ever lie low in the gutter, those sweet lips be stained by oath or +glass; those crumpled rose-leaf fingers ever strike the murderous blow +incited by alcohol? It must be, if that front rank of one hundred +thousand drunkards is to be recruited, for the drunkards of the future +are to-day babies in their mother's arms. Do you who read these words +intend to join this vast army of prospective drunkards, or will you +belong to the cold-water army that is marching on accompanied by health, +vigor, industry, prosperity, success and long life? + +We must not be so interested in the inheritance of evil qualities as to +forget the transmission of good. We read in Exodus, twentieth chapter, +that the sins of the fathers are to be visited upon the children unto +the third and fourth generations of them that hate the Lord, but mercy +will be shown to _thousands of generations_ of them that love Him and +keep his commandments. As we have seen the sins of the fathers are +visited upon the children in transmission of diseased bodies, perverted +moral natures and weakened wills, and realize that the promise is being +fulfilled in the visitation of the sins of the fathers upon the +children, let us see if the other promise is being fulfilled also, in +the mercy shown to thousands of them that love the Lord and keep His +commandments. + +An English specialist in children's diseases has carefully noted the +difference between twelve families of drinkers and twelve families of +sober parents during a period of twelve years. + + INTEMPERATE. | TEMPERATE. + | + Produced 57 children; 25 died in | Produced 61 children; 6 died + the first week of life. These | in first week, of weakness. + deaths due to convulsions, or | 4 had curable diseases. 2 + oedema of brain and membranes. | showed inherited nervous defects. + 2 were idiots. 5 dwarfs. 5 | This leaves 50 who were in + epileptics. 1 had chorea. 5 were | every way normal, sound in body + deformed. 2 became drunkards. | and mind. + This leaves only 10 who showed | + during the whole of life a | + normal disposition and development | + of body and mind. | + +If it were not a fact that health, purity, integrity, intellect and +virtue were being transmitted to a far greater extent than sin and vice, +there would be little good in the world, but the transmission of these +good qualities is so extended, so like the air and the sunshine and the +water, a common thing, that we almost forget to recognize it. When we +turn our thoughts to the investigation of this phase of the subject, we +find that vigorous parents have healthful children, that powers of +intellect are transmitted, and that honesty and uprightness in the +father warrants us in expecting the same in the son. We recognize the +transmission of powers of intellect in the fact that where the parents +have a peculiar talent, we very generally find the same talent in their +children. We are acquainted with musical families, mathematical +families, artistic families, and in the study of renowned people of the +world we find evidences of this transmission of intellect. We also learn +that the effects of education are transmissible, and if the parents are +educated along a certain line the children receive education along that +line much more readily. This fact becomes a wonderful incentive to us to +build up all that is best in our own natures in order that through us +the world may receive an impetus towards higher and better things. + +Sometimes when your faults and defects press upon you with tremendous +force and you find it so very hard to overcome them, you may be tempted +to lay the blame on your ancestry who gave you such a dower, who by +their lives handicapped you in your life-struggle. You may feel inclined +to say with some writer, to me unknown, who says: + + +HEREDITY. + + "Your strictures are unmerited, + Our follies are inherited, + Directly from our gran-pas they all came; + Our defects have been transmitted, + And we should be acquitted + Of all responsibility and blame. + + We are not depraved beginners, + But hereditary sinners, + For our fathers never acted as they should; + 'Tis the folly of our gran-pas + That continually hampers-- + What a pity that our gran-pas weren't good! + + Yes, we'd all be reverend senators, + If our depraved progenitors + Had all been prudent, studious and wise; + But they were quite terrestial, + Or we would be celestial, + Yes, we'd all be proper tenants for the skies. + + If we're not all blameless sages, + And beacons to the ages, + And fit for principalities and powers; + If we do not guide and man it, + And engineer the planet, + 'Tis the folly of our forefathers--not ours." + +But the lesson of these lines is not that you should lie back in +inaction, making no effort to overcome your defects because they are +inheritances. There is for you a wiser lesson in the theme than that. +When Marshall Ney was taunted with the fact that the Imperial nobility +had no pedigree he proudly replied, "We are ancestors." + +There is a grand thought for you. If your ancestors did not do the best +for you, will you not profit by your knowledge of this fact and do the +best for those who shall look back to you as their ancestor? Supposing +that your parents in their youth had said: "I will take care of my +health so that my children may be born with vigorous bodies; I will make +good use of my intellect so that my children will inherit an added +capacity for acquiring knowledge; I will obey all laws of morality so +that my children will by inheritance tend toward virtue;" and supposing +that you to-day, with healthful bodies, keen intellects and upward +tending moral natures, were reaping the reward of their forethought, +would you not bless them for it? + +You have no right to remain listless and discouraged because of your +inheritances, whatever they may be. Hear the inspiriting words of Ella +Wheeler Wilcox: + + There is no thing you cannot overcome. + Say not thy evil instinct is inherited; + Or that some trait inborn, makes thy whole life forlorn, + And calls for punishment that is not merited. + + Back of thy parents and grandparents lies, + The great Eternal Will; that, too, is thine + Inheritance--strong, beautiful, divine; + Sure lever of success for one who tries. + + Pry up thy fault with this great lever--will; + However deeply bedded in propensity; + However firmly set, I tell thee firmer yet + Is that great power that comes from truth's immensity. + + There is no noble height thou canst not climb; + All triumphs may be thine in time's futurity, + If whatsoe'er thy fault, thou dost not faint or halt, + But lean upon the staff of God's security. + + Earth has no claim the soul can not contest. + Know thyself part of the supernal source, + And naught can stand before thy spirit's force + The soul's divine inheritance is best. + +The youth of to-day have in their own hands the molding of the future, +not only of themselves, but of the nation, by the every day habits of +their lives. By their thoughts and aspirations, by the moral tendencies +which they are cultivating in themselves, they are determining what +shall be the characteristics of the nation in a hundred years to come. +Shall this be, in a hundred years, a nation of drunkards? The young +people of to-day are deciding that question. Shall it be a nation of +invalids? This, also, the young people are deciding. Shall it be a +nation filled with greed of gain, with a low standard of morals, with +dishonest methods in business, or shall it be a nation wherein vigorous +health is the rule, unflinching courage, absolute integrity and pure +morality shall everywhere reign? What the young people of to-day are +making of themselves physically, mentally and morally, is deciding what +shall be the future of the country. + + + + +THE WHITE CROSS. + + +The cross is considered as an emblem of self-denial, the immolating of +selfish wishes upon the altar of universal good. + +In a nobler sense it means not so much self-denial as the creation +of nobler desires, so that the individual wants only those things which +he rightfully should have; he is not obliged to deny himself, because +he asks nothing but that which is noble and pure. In this sense the +cross is not so much the emblem of self-denial as an emblem of +self-ennoblement--the exaltation of self. + +The White Cross typifies the purifying of the life from the desire of +mere sense pleasures. It means the noble manhood which claims for itself +the privilege of chastity and the rewards of purity. + +The White Cross army is composed of men and boys over fourteen years of +age who unite to resist vice, to secure safety for the home and for +society, to become all that becomes true manhood. In organized +co-operation there is strength. It is not only the "long pull" and +the "strong pull," but the "pull altogether," that is thoroughly +successful. + +Hundreds of men are living the white life individually, but are not +associated together in an effort to influence others. Such association +would result in more rapidly spreading the idea of the responsibility of +the individual, would create public opinion, would give moral support to +those who might find their unaided strength inadequate to meet the +temptations of the world, in short, would furnish the conditions +favorable to the highest ideals of social and individual life. + +The White Cross Society aims to unite men in such an organized effort +for the elevation of moral standards. Its members are pledged to the +keeping of a fivefold obligation. The first of these appeals to the +chivalry latent in the heart of every man, making him a protector of +every woman, however lonely or friendless she may be, recognizing her +potential value to the race; protecting her against his own selfish +desires, against the open and covert assaults of other men, against her +own unwisdom, if need be. + +The second obligation pledges the White Cross knight to a pure heart +expressed not only in conduct but in word. He will think and speak +reverently of life in all its phases, and help to cleanse the +language--written or spoken--of all that pollutes the heart or vitiates +the imagination. The third obligation claims for the White Cross soldier +the glory of living up to the highest moral standards, of being as pure +as the noblest woman that lives. The fourth recognizes the power of +influence and binds the members to a helpful interest in all humanity. + +The fifth covers the whole scope of life in the obligation to use every +effort to fulfil the command, "Keep thyself pure." The heart of the true +man must throb a quick response to the appeal made to him by the White +Cross. + +It means marital fidelity, it implies the sanctity of the home, it +creates individual purity, and that insures social purity, it means a +nobler manhood, a grander womanhood, a safer childhood. + +The appeal is made to you individually. Will you not become a White +Cross knight? Will you not, even if you cannot join an organized +society, become a standard-bearer of the White Cross, pledging yourself +to its five obligations? Soon you will find others willing to unite with +you in this great work, and the society will be formed. + +Each one who reads this book may become a true and faithful knight of +the White Cross, no matter where he may be, in city mart or lonely farm, +in busy shop or quiet school, and not only may he be a soldier, but he +may be a recruiting officer, inducing others to enlist under the White +Cross banner. + + +THE WHITE CROSS PLEDGE. + + "_Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God._" + +I PROMISE, BY THE HELP OF GOD: + + 1. _To treat all women with respect, and endeavor to protect + them from wrong and degradation._ + + 2. _To endeavor to put down all indecent language and coarse + jests._ + + 3. _To maintain the law of purity as equally binding upon men + and women._ + + 4. _To endeavor to spread these principles among my companions, + and try to help my younger brothers._ + + 5. _To use all possible means to fulfil the command, "Keep + thyself pure."_ + + Name_______________________ + + * * * * * + + + + +=Self and Sex Series.= + + +FOR MEN. + +=By Sylvanus Stall, D. 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The reception it has +met with is best indicated by the testimonials received from the press +and through private letters. + +The principal of a young ladies' school writes: "I invited our girls to +the parlor and read your brochure, which was listened to with the +deepest interest. At certain portions of the reading nearly all were in +tears. It is a most pathetically pure, chaste presentation of a grand +subject. You would have rejoiced could you have heard the expressions +from the young ladies. Surely, dear Dr. Allen, God has blessed many +through your instrumentality." + +Read this book if you read no other but the Bible this year.--_Emma +Bates, Valley City, N. D._ + +Please send me some more copies of your unique and valuable little book. +I cannot keep a copy over night. It would be an evangel to every young +person in whose hands it might be placed. I would also invite the public +school teachers to examine this rare little book.--_Frances E. +Willard._ + +A skilful, graceful, and reverent effort to assist parents in what has +been a delicate and difficult task. The author deserves the praise that +belongs to the successful pioneer.--_George N. Miller._ + + +=ALMOST A MAN.= + +... Price, 25 Cents ... + +The success of the "Teaching Truth," and "Child-Confidence Rewarded," +together with the frequent requests for some inexpensive book for the +instruction of boys approaching manhood, has led to the writing of +"=Almost A Man=." 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As it contains the most reliable scientific +facts in regard to alcohol, tobacco, and other narcotics, it fills the +demand created by the school laws compelling the teaching of the action +of narcotics on the human body. + + +TESTIMONIALS. + +A charming book.--_Frances Willard._ + +Only a scientific person can understand how really good it is. It has +been to me intensely interesting, and I hope sincerely that the world at +large will appreciate it.--_J. M. W. Kitchen, M. D._ + +It gives me pleasure to note that the book, both by its subject-matter +and its pleasing form of presentation, is well adapted to the use for +which it is intended.--_B. A. Hinsdale, Professor of the Science and Art +of Teaching, University of Michigan._ + +I find here, wrought out in attractive form, some of the most important +knowledge that our young people ought to know. It is suitable for a +supplementary reader in the upper grammar grades of the public schools. +Part Second particularly is of the highest value to the boys and girls +in our grammar and high schools.--_W. S. Perry, Principal of High +School, Ann Arbor, Mich._ + +This excellent work ought to be, not only read, but studied by every one +in and out of our schools who is interested in preserving the integrity +of our bodily and mental functions. The author's method would make +knowledge invigorate and mature the judgment and not burden the memory, +and this is the germinal idea in all sound education.--_Geo. E. Seymour, +Professor of History, High School, St. Louis, Mo._ + + + =The retail price of the book is $1.10. Orders promptly filled by the= + + =WOOD-ALLEN PUB. CO., + Ann Arbor, Mich.= + + * * * * * + + + + +=THE BIRTH CHAMBER.= + +PRICE, 10 Cents. + +A Supplementary Chapter to =The Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling=. + +In this supplementary chapter are given the scientific facts of special +physiology, written in Dr. Wood-Allen's own delicate style. Many who +have become aroused to the fact that accurate scientific knowledge is +the surest safeguard of purity, are themselves not well enough +instructed to be able to teach their children. This booklet meets the +need of all such, and gives just what is wanted to instruct young people +in regard to the sacred origin of life. Every one who owns "Teaching +Truth" and "Child-Confidence Rewarded" will desire to possess this +booklet also, for it supplements these perfectly. + + +=CHILD-CONFIDENCE REWARDED.= + +PRICE, 10 Cents. + +"This little book treats of child-purity with the same delicate but +masterly hand shown in Dr. Allen's other writings."--_Union Signal of +July 5, 1894._ + +"Unique and valuable."--_Frances E. Willard._ + +"I am delighted with it."--_Katherine Lente Stevenson, Chicago._ + +"Most charmingly written."--_Alice B. Stockham, M. D., Chicago._ + +"The good it will do is incalculable."--_Emily S. Bouton, in Toledo +Blade._ + +"The best you have done yet. I can recommend it."--_Earl Barnes, +Professor in Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal._ + + * * * * * + + + + +=The New Crusade= + +Price 50 Cents a Year. + +Sample Copies Free. + + +=MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D., EDITOR.= + + It is sui generis, deals frankly and scientifically with the + moral problems of the home, the school, and society. + +It embodies the work of the =White Cross=, =White Shield=, =Mother's +Meetings=, =Child-Culture Circles=, and the =Rescue Work=. Also deals +with the subject of Reform and Legislation for Morality, and yet +continuing to emphasize, most emphatically of all, the necessity of +right instruction as the surest means of promoting purity. Co-operating +with the National Superintendent of the Department of Health and +Heredity, it discusses all topics of health and inheritance, pre-natal +influences, etc. =Physical education will also have its share of +attention.= + +Crusaders of old endeavored to overthrow evil by "force and arms." The +NEW CRUSADE proposes to emphasize the positive side of life, and waging +a peaceful war, aims to supplant Ignorance by Knowledge; to eradicate +Vice by Virtue; to displace Disease by Health, and to dispel Darkness by +Light. + +Send for terms to agents and our club rates. Make all Money Orders +payable to + + =WOOD-ALLEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, + Ann Arbor, Michigan.= + + * * * * * + + +Transcriber Notes + +Typographical problems have been changed and are listed below. + +Hyphenation and common compound words standardized and listed below. + +Author's archaic spelling is preserved. + +Author's punctuation style is preserved. + +Table of Contents added. + +Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_. + +Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=. + + +Transcriber Changes + +The following changes were made to the original text: + + Prelude: =meadow land= standardized to =meadow-land= (lads + had crossed the sunny =meadow-land= of childhood and stood + by the gate) + + Page 7: Added quotes (="It= has been so long since I saw you + that you have almost grown out of my knowledge.... You must + be fifteen years =old."=) + + Page 8: =anyone= standardized to =any one= (supposing you + try to forget that =any one= has ever told you anything + about it) + + Page 9: =every thing= standardized to =everything= (We may + go even farther and say with Mr. Grant Allen that + =everything= high and ennobling in our nature springs + directly from the fact of sex.) + + Page 13: =microscrope= changed to =microscope= (they are not + visible except with the aid of a =microscope=) + + Page 14: Changed period to comma after =to-night= (No one + ever talked to me as you have =to-night,= and I am sure it + makes me want to be better.) + + Page 20: Changed single quote to double (that will bring a + blush to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to + =come."=) + + Page 20: Changed ending single quote to double (the doctor + handed him, and then with another "Good =night,"= he walked + away in the darkness.) + + Page 24: =plesaantness= changed to =pleasantness= ("all her + ways are =pleasantness=, and all her paths are peace.") + + Page 26: Added comma after =mouth= (Your eyes, hair, + =mouth,= chin, your stature, figure, complexion, your + talents, capabilities) + + Page 27: =prehaps= changed to =perhaps= (You have observed + them in yourself, though you =perhaps= have not understood + them.) + + Page 31: =tobacco using= standardized to =tobacco-using= + (proofs are accumulating of the evil results to the children + of =tobacco-using= parents) + + Page 36: =transmissable= changed to =transmissible= (We also + learn that the effects of education are =transmissible=) + + Advertisements: Removed extraneous quote after =youth= (I + can conscientiously recommend it to all who are interested + in the physical and moral welfare of =youth.=--_C. A. + Dorman, M. D._) + + Advertisements: =M D.= changed to =M. D.= ("Most charmingly + written."--_Alice B. Stockham, =M. 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