[page number] -8- [end page number] alarmingly low. 90% of all women in the United States marry before the age of forty, but only forty-five percent of college women marry before that age. In Vassar College, in the classes from 1867 to 1900, the average number of children per graduate is 0.8. Now we have in our Churches a large percentage of the people who should be having children, who should be providing the leaders of tomorrow, and adding to the race the kind of children it needs to give the Christian impetus to the future. The Church must lift her voice to stem the tide of selfishness that comes with wealth and success. Many of our best young people, achieving a measure of success, become socially ambitions [sic] and do not want to be bothered with off-spring. We should seek to glorify Motherhood and establish an eminence for those high type mothers who have a large family of healthy children. This eminence should be stressed above the futile honors that women seek in club and community activities, for which honors they have to sacrifice the privilege of large families. The Church ought to be able to help magnify the duty, privilege and charm of a large family of children from competent parents and to seek energentically [sic] to destroy the social stigma and oppribrium [sic] that is now certainly heaped upon the educated people who brave public opinion of their class and dare to have more than two or three children. This will be a fruitful field for the American Church to enter, and it will call for a lot of courage. Only a few months ago a prominent clergyman - one listed among the twenty-five leaders in America - said to me: "A family of more than three children is economically and socially impossible". He spoke his conviction.