Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... whom the loving and tender side of their nature is most prominently developed. Anthony Comstock is a striking example of this principle. He is a "home body," through and through, loving his home and his dear ones with a deep tenderness. His love for children is a passion in his life; it is they, indeed, for whom he has laid down his life in his crusade of eternal vigilance against the crimes whose objective is to ruin childhood. And he has learned, in the school of sorrow, the pathway to love and tenderness. His first-born and only child, a daughter, was born in the summer of 1871. The following year he was in the thick of his early experiences of desperate conflict with the doers of evil. In June of 1872 the baby daughter was taken ill. One morning, June 28th, Mr. Comstock left his home for court, while a trained nurse shared with the mother the care of the child. Mr. Comstock was conducting the prosecution, and was on the witness stand all day, under a bitter and cudgelling cross-examination. At night he returned to his home, to find the littie girl dead. The entry in his diary for that day reads: "The Lord's will be done. Oh, for grace to say it and live it 1" That was on a Friday. The court adjourned until Monday, when Mr. Comstock went on to the stand again, while in the meantime he and the heart-broken mother had buried their child. So his love for children is not "academic" or in the abstract; it has a basis that nothing can ever take from him. A friend of the writer's, Mr. Frederick Hall of Dundee, Illinois, whose sketches of the child life of the Bible have put readers under heavy obligation, recently had an interesting experience with Mr. Comstock on this side of his nature. He writes about it as follows: I called at his office...