The Prevention of Syphilis
One of the most horrible of diseases—syphilis—has come to be so frequent and wide-spread that there is soon to be held in Belgium, "The International Conference for the Prevention of Syphilis." The president of the American Medical Association, alluding to this, said that he "believed that the time has arrived when physicians, singly or when in convention assembled, should throw aside all restraint when dealing with this vital question. The minister and the priest should aid the doctor in this praiseworthy undertaking. The doctrine should be inculcated into the young of both sexes, that freedom from this awful condition should exist before the marriage relation was thought of."—New York Medical Record. It is not the transgressors alone, who suffer; the disease is both infectious and hereditary. But the best prevention is absolute purity of life in every respect, found only in Christ.