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Show Priest Advises Marriage. Father Wiliam Temple of St. Paul's church. Wilmington, Del., has just preached a sermon that is exciting excit-ing wide interest. Father Temple is a profound scholar and a speaker of much ability, having lectured at the Maryland summer school and elsewhere. else-where. In his sermon the reverend speaker declared it the absolute duty of everyone not in religious orders to engage en-gage in the marriage relation. As citizens of the state you owe it to the state to marry," he said, "and as children of the church you owe it to her and to God, who created you. The Catholic who can afford to marry and will not. dare not conscientiously call himself or herself a true child of the church." Father Temple, in the course of his sermon, said that in past centuries it was the rule that every one become married under pain of being excom-imunicated excom-imunicated from the church. By this means the race was preserved and the earth populated. Unless there comes a change in the attitude toward marriage mar-riage that is becoming onlv too general gen-eral among American Catholics, male and female, the church may deem it proper to put the ancient legislation in force. He referred to the women of today who have not the proper maternal spirit. He said Ihoy thought more of a dog than a person. Their pets they claim have souls and are capable of loving more than any man or woman This, the speaker declared, had actually ac-tually been stated by some women The speaker said that the young men and women in the prime of life declare they do not get married because be-cause they have not sufficient funds. Yet these very men are receiving salaries sal-aries of ?20 and each week. He asked what they did with it. He contended con-tended that they do not save and that some of their money iS undoubtedly-spent undoubtedly-spent In riotous living. He said the j-oung men should save their money and get married. |