Let me assure you in the most practical way that there are two sides to
this child question. There is a sentimental side, than which there is
no other so worthy; and there is a practical side, than which there is
none so profitable.
The best and most profitable service in the whole gamut of useful
occupations that I know about is in learning to know children, and in
connection with a Quarantine movement which is now started, and which
aims to not let one of these wards of the Christ escape the best care
known to Love and the Science of Child-Life.
The crèche and the kindergarten and the manual training schools, and
domestic training classes, as well as institutions similar to the
"Holiday Home" across the Bay, have demonstrated within the past thirty
years that fully ninety-eight per cent of the "Hopelessly Submerged
Ten Per Cent" can be rescued after they have been warped by evil
surroundings. What will not the same effort effect if directed toward
prevention and protection, instead of being squandered in careless and
soulless correction?
Christ said: "And a little child shall lead them." Let us awake to
the call. It is the way to Heaven; for, "_Of such_ is the Kingdom of
Heaven."
FIVE YEARS' CONFIRMATORY EVIDENCE
The spirit of the preceding address to the good members of the Unity
League organisation on the shores of beautiful Lake Geneva has been the
inspiring motive of the quest for scientific endorsement of Economic
Nutrition for the benefit of the present generation of children, and,
incidentally, of their elders. In Economic Nutrition lies protection
from sexual morbidity, alcoholic intemperance, bodily disease, savage
passions and all the brood of evil contamination and temptation. In
Economic Nutrition lie possibilities of physical and mental energy and
optimistic happiness such as the world has not been accustomed to in
the memory of history. Economic Nutrition is what children want to be
taught with their first indelible impressions, and the present great
movement of which this little book treats, for which it was first
responsible, and for which it is republished in a new and extended
edition, is expected to furnish authoritative knowledge relative to the
most Economic Nutrition, so that mothers and kindergartners may meet
the little waifs from the Creator on the threshold of this present life
with words of wisdom and examples of sanitary perfection, instead of
confronting them at once with the poison of ignorance relative to their
most important concern,--their own Economic Nutrition.
That the contentions uttered in "That Last Waif; or, Social
Quarantine," referred to in the Lake Geneva Address, are reasonable is
evidenced by the experience of Dr. and Mrs. Kellogg and their adopted
family of twenty-four waifs, the acquaintance of which has since been
made.
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