Can It Be True? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 34.

Can It Be True?

By Editor

It is so stated. We can not deny it, can you? Here is the statement: “There are 300,000 ‘felled’ girls in our country, one-half of them from Christian homes, and three-fourths from country homes. They have been gotten there through the trickery and wiles of those engaged in the ‘traffic in girls,’ which is caused [largely] by the traffic in drink. Their average life is five years. Sixty thousand girls dragged down to this life every year; 5,000 every month; 170 every day, or a young life blasted in our land every eight minutes. Father! Mother! your little girl is not safe.” It is a terrible picture. If some disease were sweeping off 6,000 girls a year, how interested you would be in guarding your daughter, in checking the plague! But this is worse than death. God bless all those who are laboring in this rescue work! God bless the work being done in this line by the W. C. T. U.! If you wish to learn more about the matter, send six cents in stamps to Mrs. Charlton Edholm, The Temple, Chicago.

In our next issue we will begin two important studies on the Sabbath, by Pastor George E. Fifield; on the coming of the Lord, by F. M. Wilcox, pastor of the S. D. A. Church at Boulder, Colo. These articles will be of special interest.