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session, to the last of his life, tender, delicate, considerate, 

 deferent, yielding to her slightest wishes in the domain of love, 

 and never encroaching, never trespassing upon, never victimis- 

 ing the wife of his bosom, and the mother of his babes. We 

 have romance before marriage we want more chivalry in 

 marriage. 



This is not the world's morality yet it seems to me the 

 world must respect it. This high and pure Christian morality 

 is not always enforced by Christian ministers, some of whom 

 yield too much to human sensuality and depravity, instead of 

 maintaining the higher law of Christian purity which is but 

 nature restored, or freed from its stains of sin. The world re- 

 quires that unmarried women should be chaste, while it gives 

 almost unbridled license to men. A girl detected in amours is 

 disgraced and often made an outcast. In young men such 

 irregularities are freely tolerated. They are "a little wild;" 

 they "sow their wild oats;" but open profligacy, the seduction 

 of innocence, the ruin of poor girls, adultery, harlotry and its 

 diseases, do not hinder men from marrying, nor from requiring 

 that those they marry should have spotless reputations. It is 

 not for a moment permitted that women in these matters 

 should behave like men; and a pure girl is given to the arms 

 of a wasted debauchee, and her babes are perhaps born dead, 

 or suffer through life with syphilitic diseases, while she endures 

 a long martyrdom from disordered, diseased, and unrestrained 

 sensuality. For the unmarried, young men, soldiers, sailors, 

 and all who do not choose to bear the burdens of a family, 

 society has its armies of prostitutes women like others, and 

 more than others, or in less reputable fashion, the victims of 

 the unbridled lusts of man. These are everywhere tolerated as 

 " necessary evils," and, in some places, protected or regulated, 

 and from economical or philanthropic considerations, or both 

 combined, efforts are made to free them from the contagious 

 diseases, which for some centuries have been a curse attend- 



