eS ae “2A ee ee ee eae ee ae a Ce Rcd 4 EDITORIAL Ink eit, in Europe Wack ak Yr wae a eran ee Ee Se Sea There: - before. are attend e : has all the dyspteis Church avatlaiic in vending machines, and everyone of a services than more illegitimate ‘children than The Swedes thought that the use of these devices ality of the country. Education does not But hand longer on sex now in the first grade, and con- gee Contageoptives are ETE no ee of VD of people in ae mitted to a preservation Latter-day Saints. THE GOSPEL longer ~ of the and other a world is com- i of true Christianity. has been The ois peataned: to them, ‘dad a with it the scriptural law of virtue. Chastity isas much a part of the restoration the of the Gospel as baptism ‘Or resurrection. Without it there is no Christianity. — Latter-day Saints are under covenant to be true to the name of Christ. That requires devotion to His laws — and commandments, among the most iopernanhy, ofi ; which is chastity. _. ~ Latter-day Saints must ever remember that: it is - better to die protecting virtue than to live an ni life. Virtue is more important than life. — We are to emulate the example 4 = of Christ and be- : come like Him. That is impossible without virtue. In this Church young and old alike must preserve ae i modesty as a safeguard to morality, and. cling to © Christ-like virtue as fundamental to our faith. This _ allows for no extreme styles inviting immorality, n0- ; — petting, and no unchastity in the slightest degree.— a tinues through | high ‘school, intimate details being ! - Spay discussed | in mixed are ay At least one eroup . aude lessons on how to use contraceptives. Young- | S| sters: are taught about abortion and sterilization also. Sex instruction begins they diseases. of given there ideals, both spirituality and morality _ erally, yet they must never partake of her sins so that | - life. After ten years of teaching sex in school the _ Swedes now find that such instruction has greatly in- instruction Christian they will not receive of the High government officials have done likewise. a Homosexuality and prostitution even of 16-year-olds are legalized. With this attitude on the part of their leaders, can the people be expected to live clean moral lives? © THE PUBLIC a will be a vast separation of the righteous from the | wicked. That day will come. But in the meantime, the _ righteous must live among the wicked, in the world lit- _ the bars on Christian morali- a creased | promiscuity, boosted venereal disease beyond - anything they are willing to admit, and brought into the world thousands of illegitimate children. Most high - school students there regard premarital relations as. ~ both natural and_ acceptable, an attitude stimulated : by sex education i in the public schools. | The scriptures indicate that in the latter days ince in churchmen of sex Jooseness has become the way and chastity. Because are probably higher than in any other world. For this we are thankful. ye In Sweden uphold Christian. In America watious denominations would now take the position indicated, for many of them, even from the pulpit, have long since let down Se in hand. Christ teaches righteousness - gchools is now beginning to count the cost in terms of : greatly increased venereal disease, more illegitimate _ births, and a realization that 80 per cent of their st young people indulge in illicit relationships. - so also is the de- Gospel of Christ. Le the world no longer desires the clean life, it begins to — - reject Christianity. So in the hearts of the masses of | many countries, Christianity dies. ‘When people no — of Churches, after a that as immorality is world-wide, cline in obedience to the - Britain it is understandable : do all other countries. The let-down in morals is not confined to Britain or Sweden. It is world-wide. | - two- -year study on “sex and morality,” refused recently In ibe. the. VD rate, which increases with exposure. AMERICA HAS its share of this sort of thing, : as ever - to condemn pre-marital relationships. Sweden, after ten years of frank sex education -. — is skyrocketing in proportion to the increasing immor- ever | ‘Two recent reports from Europe point up the rava_ ges of sex looseness which exists there. COUNCIL | - such protection, and that the incidence of the disease _ present day. Truly one may ask, “What will a man give ‘THE BRITISH one would protect them from venereal disease, but they — are now shocked into a realization that there is no - gtand how Europe would give up the uplifting and elevating life of a true Christian for the filth of the his soul?” is to use them. Sane people, looking at the facts, can hardly under- for as. But Not Of The World— there is more social disease than ever before. - in exchange eee ekG'e ‘There is more promiscuity than ever before. And het <. | ‘Fewer people : before: SHO Tl dying religion, and Europe is BhOWArS the results in shocking respect. More people drink and smoke there than ever _ before. There are more disrupted marriages than ever before. eer et Latter-day Saints must be meee for nse: bear the — of the apes = Paes. é