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“The Seventh International Purity Congress will convene
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 7 to 12, 1913. Sunday,
November 9th, has been designated “Purity Sunday,' the pur-
pose being to create and crystallize intelligent sentiment against
the greatest evils of our time, and to direct this stirred con-
science into safe and same action for the annihilation of
commercialized vice and the promotion of social and personal
morality.”
Every state in the Union is expending vast sums of money
for the purpose of caring for its imbeciles, epileptics, lunatics,
paupers and criminals. This is a commendable characteristic
of modern civilization. In recent years the pertinent question
has been asked, “Why not give careful attention to the source
of these unfortunates?” Every child has the divine right to be
decently born. Social and individual purity together with
physical and mental vigor constitutes a secure means of making
this divine right possible.
The people of our great state must be awakened. They
must come to an appreciation of the full meaning and import-
ance of a SINGLE STANDARD of VIRTUE, if they are
ever to banish white slavery and kindred crimes from society.
On Purity Sunday let all of the clergymen of all of the
churches appeal to all of the people in behalf of that purity
which Christ taught. Emphasize the positive side of personal
righteousness. Much that is printed in books and proclaimed
from the platform, in relation to sex problems, is true, yet pos-
7tively pernicious. Knowledge in itself does not always make
for virtue—it may make for vicious conduct. Therefore, awaken
and arouse a love for purity. It is the sunlight of righteous-
ness that the youth of our land must have if they are to grow
into the fullness of noble manhood and womanhood.
Given under my hand and the Greal Seal
of the State, this twenty-fourth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and thirteen,
and of the Commonwealth the seventy-
seventh.
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Governor.
By the Governor:
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Secretary of State.

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