As Viewed by a Great Jurist
JUDGE BEN LINDSEY, Denver's famous juvenile jurist and reformer, has recently said some very striking things in regard to the condition of society. Two paragraphs from his utterances are the following: “The sooner we rub the nose of society into its failure, and wake it up to the truth, and take its ostrich head out of the sand pile, the sooner we can do the big, splendid work that must be done in this nation for its womanhood and motherhood. I am proud to be one of those to take whatever consequences may come from telling the truth.” “The birth-rate of illegitimate children is amazingly on the increase, that of legitimate children on the decrease; that is, as far as we have any reliable data upon which to base estimates. Of course, all estimates are, in a measure, conjecture.” Men who are in living contact with actual conditions in the world can not be true to themselves without affirming the facts as they exist; and such facts as these will not warrant us in looking to this world, or to any devices of men, for salvation. But what a glorious thing it is to know that the world is soon to be redeemed from all of these conditions through the mighty power of Christ Himself at His coming!