Show public discussion of VICE VIC the news feels a profound respa reaper for men and women who devote theft time and talents to the reclamation 06 4 the sinner that person who pet pelt buades the victims of temptation temp to ta leave the paths wt of vice and the aae ati of the vicious to walk henceforth W the ways of virtue and associate conw with the virtuous is a savior and ft deemer to the extent to to which h t afta good works are carried if these ft suits are accomplished without the doing of harm to offset them the methods by which they are produced not to be ought condemned bvm ew though those methods MILY may n not ot coa cb form to established or rules or notions but in the pursuit of a laudable ob I 1 eject it is often easy to do more than good and there is a whether a too free discussion of its haunts its features its prevalence and its attractions before mixed audiences embracing both sexes and all ages and conditions will not prcy a more evil than benefit the seriously questions the propriety ana the beneficence of such meetings meeting lL they are not very likely to lead to reformation persons who have actually actu catered upon the practice of t but they are likely to bring p prominent ly ay before the minds of many not famil familiar tax with vice portrayals portrayal ot it that stirn stimulate a curios curiosity icv sad aad A 66 desire for further personal t tion ion that often lead to fatal As a rule a young man pays his hi visit to a gambling den and to worse place not out of a tion to do any wrongful act but merely out of curiosity and the lesa left taft t propensity Is excited regarding the subject matter here indicated in the ote m minds ands of those not yet eniti initiated abed hi jhb wa ways ya of sin the better particularly Particular tr should the unguarded discussion of such subjects in the presence of mixed assemblages of young people be avoided in relation to a certain clam et at evils it may be truly said that ance is a protection to innocence what careful thoughtful 9 WO would uld wish to have a daughter ha 4 nea nearing or has just passed the Ys v q womanhood yet retains the J y r b 3 talty ty of a childs mind listen to a I 1 address delivered before a assemblage dealing with the objects here alluded to and in the r homner suggested the same query applies P les though possibly with slightly diminished force to a son of similar age and condition obviously the arop er way for young people to re F bove the warning and instruction they need upon these lines is for parents in tho the love and confidence which grow out of the relations of parent and child and with becoming discretion to impart it or the religious rell reli gous instructor when the occasion is appropriate and ancl tile the spirit of his calling so directs may aej with a degree of plainness when an american becomes awak ened amed t to the necessity of correcting an evil his bis first impulse is to call a mass f meeting and raise a but in flome e cases a still hunt is better would aa a ma maes Irne meeting eting be called for the pur pose boft of pointing out to the assemblage ate e persons pres present ent who were spreading VIsal pox or leprosy every one can understand that such a gathering r would buld be likely to do fax far more towards f than towards curtailing the nt aglon and the simile applies at least in some degree to miscellaneous assembled for the pur 7 pae of listening to a disc discussion too free td unguarded of certain forms of e vice por reclaiming the abandoned there si S no form of effort so effective as per onal interview and persuasion coupled r ami quiet and private methods of ex tending bending help and encouraged encouragement ent in the my fw of refuge and employment that will place the lost one in a new and pure atmosphere where self respect and reputation may be regained for ing those who have come under tae shadow ow of temptation there is no agency so effective as the solemn and t ti ate admonition of the parent i privately communicated if there be SA parent that can or will perform this then some one else may do it but ahe alte parental method and spirit jd be retained for those who are aoth agnor ignorant ant and innocent nothing Is in at IS 18 not intended here to object to meetings either of the sexes tely or together r provided those wito attend them are of mature age and isted ea habits of morality and proper 5 and limits are observed observe ed in dis and in enlisting public sen i fuming aming coi wing vice iti ent nent tor for its suppression but the insists that the whole subject 1 M its P proper roper manipulation call for tionne tion nd judgment conscientious diacre a ian and nd cautious conservatism r i |