Traps for the Young Series
Anthony Comstock was a man hated by many in his day. One of his greatest opponents was Margaret Sanger, the infamous founder of Planned Parenthood. Even now over a hundred years after his death, Comstock's name is still being slandered.
What was it about this man that caused the reproach of the world to fall upon him?
Simple, he feared God, loved children and gave his all to defend their innocence from the attacks of the devil. He was the man responsible for what became known as the Comstock Laws, which outlawed obscene material from being sent in the mail.
In this series, Nathaniel Mervar from BOJF breaks down Comstock's signature work, "Traps for the Young." For this man was a hero every Christian should know!
In our current age, when our children are being inundated & assaulted with the most vile of evils, we would do well to heed the advice of a man who spent his entire life fighting against the obscenity dealers of his day...and largely won.
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Introduction to Anthony Comstock (Traps for the Young: Episode 1)
Learn about the life of a legendary hero of American history, Anthony Comstock. The man who fought for the purity of America...and largely won.
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Comstock's Preface (Traps for the Young: Episode 2)
The preface of Comstock's book "Traps for the Young" is so excellent that in the past we have offered to buy people this book, if they would simply read the preface and conclusion.
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Guard Your Home (Traps for the Young: Episode 3)
In a world full of that which is vile, our homes should be a safe haven, an oasis for our children to be sheltered from the depravity of our culture.
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Newspaper Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 4)
Another fruitful source of danger to the youth is the sickening details of loathsome crimes as they appear in any of our daily papers. These details familiarize their readers with crime; they even tend to glorify it.
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Evil Reading (Traps for the Young: Episode 5)
Supply evil reading and your boy will soon be behind prison-bars or be off your hands. Sadly, Satan is more interested in the child than many parents are. The child’s mind must be protected from the virus of putrid imaginations!
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Advertisement Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 6)
Scripture commands us to expose evil, however, let us expose it with a sticky note, not a research paper!
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Low Theater & Movies (Traps for the Young: Episode 7)
If the advertisements of these vile plays & movies bred contagious physical disease instead of moral death, they would not stand a day.
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Rum Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 8)
Total abstinence, moral purity, and sweet thoughts, like the pure atmosphere that surrounds the mountain-tops, are health-giving.
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Gambling Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 9)
Gaming is a general evil, leads to vicious inclinations, destruction of morals, abandonment of industry and honest employment, a loss of self-control and respect.
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Lotteries & Politicians (Traps for the Young: Episode 10)
The politician has taken the place of the patriot. Good men have been so occupied with business and society that they have allowed our positions of trust to be filled with weak if not corrupt men.
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Death Traps by iPhone (Traps for the Young: Episode 11)
The morals our youth first, conventionalities afterward. These foul publications, as has been seen, breed lust. Lust brings disease, weaknesses, and suffering.
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Quack [Abortion] Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 12)
For years this iniquitous business was winked at by the police, while hundreds of thousands of dollars were gathered together by ignorant woman, the price of hidden shame. Maiden virtue was of no account.
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Free "Love" Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 13)
Every manly instinct cried out against my cowardly turning my back on this horde of lusters. I determined to try. I resolved that one man in America at least should enter a protest!
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Art & Film Traps (Traps for the Young: Episode 14)
Is a photograph or movie of an obscene figure or picture a work of art? My answer is emphatically, no. Art is high and exalted. It’s worth commands respect. Its intrinsic value is derived from its perfection.
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Defining Liberty (Traps for the Young: Episode 15)
The freedom sought by our forefathers to worship God did not mean to serve the devil. Freedom to have a home does not mean or imply that the parent may not defend that home against the Liberal obscenity peddler who seeks to ruin the child.
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It's Constitutional (Traps for the Young: Episode 16)
Where is the life, or property interest to debauch the morals of the young to be found in the Constitution? No man will dare libel our forefathers by suggesting that even for one moment they dreamed that such a claim could be made under their form of government.
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Comstock's Conclusion (Traps for the Young: Episode 17)
Let thoughtful minds reflect how much is involved in the fact that the boys and girls of today must become the men and women of to-morrow. ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’
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Marching Orders (Traps for the Young: Episode 18)
Our youth are in danger; mentally and morally they are cursed by a literature that is a disgrace to the ninetieth century. Let no man be henceforth indifferent. Read, reflect, act.