The New York Times

“ Of the need of such a congress, the prevalence of purity everywhere, so conspicuous in our large centres of population, abundantly testifies.
In the Old World, vice, in many countries, is regulated by the State; it is legalized as a trade; it is a shocking system of practical slavery for dependent women and girls, who are made its victims. It gives rise to an unholy traffic in girlhood; it occasions untold degradation on the part of women; it is a standing menace to the home. ”

“ The repression of vice, the prevention of its regulation by the State, the better protection of the young, the rescue of the fallen, to extend the White Cross work among men, and to proclaim the law of purity as equally binding upon men and women.
Purity is fundamental in its importance. There can be no true manhood, no true womanhood except as based upon its law. There can be no security for the home, no home life in its best sense except as it is based upon the law of purity. ”

“ Another work which this congress, it is hoped, will do much to aid, is the greatly needed rescue work among the victims of vice; rescue work among fallen men, as well as fallen women. But even more important is preventive educational purity work among the young, which shall ultimately make rescue work no longer a necessity. ”