home, when no loving, tender, anxious forethought presides over thee relation in which it originated?—­when the mother’s nature loathed and repelled it, and the father’s only thought was his own selfish gratification; the feelings and conditions of the mother, and the health, character and destiny of the child that may result being ignored by him.  Wives! let there be a perfect and loving understanding between you and your husbands on these matters, and great will be your reward.

3.  A WOMAN WRITES:—­“There are few, vary few, wives and mothers who could not reveal a sad, dark picture in their own experience in their relations to their husbands and their children.  Maternity, and the relation in which it originates, are thrust upon them by their husbands, often without regard to their spiritual or physical conditions, and often in contempt of their earnest and urgent entreaties.  No joy comes to their heart at the conception and birth of their children, except that which arises from the consciousness that they have survived the sufferings wantonly and selfishly inflicted upon them.”

4.  HUSBAND, WHEN MATERNITY is imposed on your wife without her consent, and contrary to her appeal, how will her mind necessarily be affected towards her child?  It was conceived in dread and in bitterness of spirit.  Every stage of its foetal development is watched with feeling of settled repugnance.  In every step of its ante-natal progress the child meets only with grief and indignation in the mother.  She would crush out its life, if she could.  She loathed its conception; she loathed it in every stage of its ante-natal development.  Instead of fixing her mind on devising ways and means for the healthful and happy organization and development of her child before it is born, and for its post natal comfort and support, her soul may be intent on its destruction, and her thoughts devise plans to kill it.  In this, how often is she aided by others!  There are those, and they are called men and women, whose profession is to devise ways to kill children before they are born.  Those who do this would not hesitate (but for the consequences) to kill them after they are born, for the state of mind that would justify and instigate ante-natal child-murder would justify and instigate post-natal child-murder.  Yet, public sentiment consigns the murderer of post-natal children to the dungeon or the gallows, while the murderers of antenatal children are often allowed to pass in society as honest and honorable men and women.

5.  THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT from a letter written by one who has proudly and nobly filled the station of a wife and mother, and whose children and grandchildren surround her and crown her life with tenderest love and respect: