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 2l6 INTRODUCTION TO PARLIAMENT PAPERS. parents and loyalty to rulers. In this aspect Confucianism has had, and still has, a strong hold among the higher and well- educated classes. Professor M, J. Wade, in a seventh-day paper, presented the Catholic view of marriage as a sacrament, the wrong to both religion and family life of divorce as permitted by state laws, and the need in particular of more stringent laws secur- ing the proper support of the wife and family. On the same day Brother Azarias argued the extreme importance of the religious education of children. In a twelfth-day paper Rev. Olympia Brown especially urged the hope of the race in better motherhood. Miss Frances E. Willard, in a fifteenth-day paper, urged the claims of social purity, the dependence of social health upon pure homes, and the urgency of the appeal to men to be as spotless as they expect women to be.