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SWEDISH MEN AND WOMEN!
On our own will, on our innate power ultimately depends the future of the
Swedish race in our country. A people mentally and physically strong can hold
out even under hard outward pressure!
Improvement in the health of the people must therefore be our watchword,
and first of all we must direct our attention to the children! That they are born
with a good disposition, that they are taken care of and educated well, there is
the surest ground for our happiness in the future!
The inherited qualities of the parents, both the good and the bad, are re*
flected in the children. Be careful therefore when you marry that your chosen
one has good health and belongs to a healthy family!
Be on your guard against strong drink and sexual disease! They not only
undermine your own health. They can even do harm to your children and their
posterity. Do not forget that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation!
Be modest and thrifty! But still not a slave to the desire for money! It can
so easily lead you astray, and what shall it profit you to gain the whole world
if you lose your own soul the while! The best inheritance you can give your
children is not money and gold but a sound mind in a sound bodyl
Should you be the owner of a piece of ground do not sell it, however temp*
ting the offers may be! Rather make it your glory and your pride as your fathers
before you to leave it in an improved State to your descendants! Remember also that
a farmer’s work is the most important and the healthiest among all occupations!
And even if you have no land of your own, but have lived and grown up
in the country since your birth, do not abandon your native place unless circum*
stances really force you to do so! Above all, do not move into town! There
temptations and dangers threaten you, which may be the cause of your own and
your children’s ruin!
Take care of the children from their birth onward tenderly and lovingly
Educate them to be obedient, to love truth and to keep their word! Härden
their will and accustom them early to do useful work, adapted to their strength
and ability! Diligence promotes health and welfare and keeps you from many
occasions for sinning!
Briefly: all members of our Swedish race should be educated to become honest
and diligent workers for their native place and their fatherland!
There must be no bad Swedish men and women in this country!
Let us all obey these admonitions and keenly feel our responsibility before
coming generations! If we do so it will be well with us and the day of our
Swedish race shall be long in the land!
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