Masters of statistics might speak if they would, but they
too are silent.
" We have passed some severe strictures of late on certain
schemes and methods of work allowed and indulged in by
churchmen, lay and clerical, which unquestionably tend to



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weaken the place and importance of family life as the basis
of national well-being. Our strictures have derived strength
from the conviction that, all unconsciously, well-meaning
churchmen have, by the methods condemned, helped to further
the ends of those destroyers of society who teach that
parental responsibility is quite undesirable beyond a certain
limit, and that the proper end of marriage is sensuality.
Against that view of the constitution and work of humanity
we must do unceasing battle.
