deal further, except to say that they have recently been endorsed in
England, with fine grace and high authority, by Lord Dawson of Penn
(one of the King's Physicians), in an address given before the Church
Congress at Birmingham, on October 12th, 1921, which has since been
republished by Messrs. Nisbet at a shilling, under the title of
"Love--Marriage--Birth-Control." The following short extract may be
quoted here:--

"Generally speaking," says Lord Dawson, "birth-control before the
first child is inadvisable. On the other hand, the justifiable use
of birth-control would seem to be to limit the number of children
when such is desirable, and to spread out their arrival in such a
way as to serve their true interests and those of their home."

As to the prevention of venereal disease, as I have said, what we must
aim at is not merely the prevention of sin, but the prevention of the
poisoning of the sinner; for, if not, we shall have blind babies, invalid
wives, and ruined husbands: broken-hearted and broken-bodied mothers
adding one fragment after another to the Nation's pile of damaged goods.

To the great-hearted public this is becoming intolerable. But they know so
little, and they wait so long for what the wise ones fear to tell. Not all
these fears are sordid; there is a kind and gracious reluctance to shatter
ideals. It is hard at times to combine beauty and duty. The way of the
truth-teller is not made easier by charges of iconoclasm. "To know all is
to forgive all"; that is not paganism but Christianity. So also, "Let him
that is without sin cast the first stone." "To err is human: to forgive
divine." Humanity, wisdom, tolerance, are wrapped up in these sayings. Yet
when we think, as think at times we must, of the romantic faith that once
was ours, contrasted with the realities of present experience, sex seems