B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

Name: Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents
Author: B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

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“Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents”, published in 1919, is a work by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols. It explores elements such as crime, sin and murder.

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ The mother who deliberately sets about to destroy this life, either by want of care, or by taking drugs, or using instruments, commits as great a crime, and is just as guilty as if she strangled her new-born infant or as if she snatched from her own breast her six months' darling and dashed out its brains against the wall. Its blood is upon her head, and as sure as there is a God and a judgment, that blood will be required of her. The crime she commits is murder, child murder—the slaughter of a speechless, helpless being, whom it is her duty, beyond all things else, to cherish and preserve. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ A MONSTROUS CRIME.—The abiding interest we feel in the preservation of the morals of our country, constrains us to raise our voice against the daily increasing practice of infanticide, especially before birth. The notoriety that monstrous crime has obtained of late, and the hecatombs of infants that are annually sacrificed to Moloch, to gratify an unlawful passion, are a sufficient justification for our alluding to a painful and delicate subject, which should "not even be named," only to correct and admonish the wrong-doers. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ It is fast becoming the national sin of America, and if it is not checked, it will sooner or later be an irremediable calamity. The sin has its roots in a low and perverted idea of marriage, and is fostered by false standards of modesty.
10. THE SIN OF HEROD.—Do these same white-walled sepulchres of hell know that they are committing the damning sin of Herod in the slaughter of the innocents, and are accessories before the fact to the crime of murder? Do women in all circles of society, when practicing these terrible crimes realize the real danger? ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ To put it in other words, when two people determine to live together as husband and wife, and evade the consequences and responsibilities of marriage, they are simply engaged in prostitution without the infamy which attaches to that vice and crime. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ Better, far better, to bear a child every year for twenty years than to resort to such a wicked and injurious step; better to die, if need be, of the pangs of child-birth, than to live with such a weight of sin on the conscience. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATION OF ALL LAW.—The violation of all law, both natural and revealed, is the cool and villainous contract by which people entering into the marital relation engage in defiance of the laws of God and the laws of the commonwealth, that they shall be unencumbered with a family of children. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ But an influence not less powerful than any of these is the growing devotion of fashion and luxury of this age, and the idea which practically obtains to so great an extent that pleasure, instead of the health or morals, is the great object of life. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ Do they understand that it is undermining their health, and their constitution, and that their destiny, if persisted in, is a premature grave just as sure as the sun rises in the heavens? Let all beware and let the first and only purpose be, to live a life guiltless before God and man.
11. THE CRIME OF ABORTION.—From the moment of conception a new life commences; a new individual exists ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ If they have no feeling for the fruit of their womb, if maternal sentiment is so callous in their breasts, let them know that such produced abortions are the constant cause of violent and, dangerous womb diseases, and frequently of early death ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — The Murder of Innocents (1919)

“ Pomeroy, "yet the fact remains that the first and specific object of marriage is the rearing of a family." "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth," is God's first word to Adam after his creation.
9. THE NATIONAL SIN.—The prevention of offspring is preeminently the sin of America. ”

B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

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