Deterioration of the Puritan stock : and its causes / by John Ellis.

  • Ellis, John, 1815-1896.
Date:
1884
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Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    social amusements which motherhood and fatherhood de- mand. Then the habits of the young of both sexes prevent * early marriages among natives, and to a great extent render them unfruitful when they do occur. We well know that goodness and truth do not destroy races and peoples, for their ultimates in external life are in harmony with the laws of physical life and health. Self- love and love of the world, or evils and falses, when ulti- mated in external life, are what destroy the health and lives of men, women and children; because the ultimates of evils and falses are opposed to natural health and life, as such evils and falses are to spiritual health and life. The natu-. ral ultimate, be it good or evil, is the basis for spiritual life, and corresponds to such life ; for this reason all genuine reformation must commence in our external life. We must cease to speak and do evil; the backbiter must cease to speak evil of his neighbor; the drunkard must cease to apply the drunkard’s cup to his lips; the tobacco user must cease the use of this poisonous weed; the deformed woman must cease to wear her stays and tight dresses; for the Lord gives us the ability to shun evils if we will strive to do so. Men are not saved by faith alone, or by doctrines, I however true, so long as they simply exist in the memory; nor are they destroyed by falses, or a knowledge of evils, so long as they are not ultimated in life. The physical bodies of men are not destroyed even by spiritual evils, if such evils are not ultimated in acts which violate the laws of: physical health and life; but, unfortunately for our native American population, there is flowing over our land an overwhelming flood of falses and evils, ultimated in the acts of external life, which threaten the speedy destruction of the native American population and make it manifest that this country is to be peopled mainly, and at no distant day, by the inflowing immigrants and those who were foreign born less than half a century ago and their descendants. Now the writer asks his brethren and sisters of the Lord’s Church, in all earnestness, if the consideration of these falses and evils, which are destroying and threatening the abbO*;: lute destruction of the most intelligent native American population of our country, jp not vastly more important