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sage in the creed "Conceived by the Holy Spirit/' which
Gabriel said to Mary should come upon her. By that all
that is has been brought into being, and it is a ray from
that attribute of God which is used by men for perpetuation
of the race. When that is abused, that is to say, when it
is used for sense gratification, whether in solitary or asso-
ciated vice, with or without the legal marriage, that is the
sin against the Holy Spirit. That sin, we are told, is not
forgiven; it must be expiated. Humanity as a whole is
now suffering for that sin. The debilitated bodies, the
sickness that we see around us, has been caused by cen-
turies of abuse, and until we learn to subdue our passions
there can be no true health among the human race. We
have been born of parents who thought that it was right to
gratify their passions at any and all times. In consequence
we suffer now, and by our attitude toward the sex question
most of us are at the present time conferring the same
maladies upon our children. Thus the sins of the fathers
are being visited upon the children from generation to
generation, and will continue to bring sorrow and suffering
until we shall understand that every child has a right to be
well born and to receive the proper physical conditions
during the period
of antenatal life,