Show UIIUa i VM DMOKLK A tKESll impetus has liecn given t tie discussion of this perennial theme by the recent action regarding regard-ing it of Uie Lpkcopal ChUrl and tho publication of three pajicrs ujon i in the Ybrti Inmsan rftier I for November written respectively by Cnrlnl Gibbon who munch ate the Itonnn Catholic doctrine Bishop Totter who defines the position posi-tion of the J Episcopal I church rektivc t the question anJ Col U G Ingcrvoll who expresses the views of that class of thinkers among wiiom ho Is a leader 1 Cardinal Gibbons holds marriage to t a sacrament indissoluble save under circumstances of such magnitude a justifies a dispensation bi tlie Tope liMioji I Totter holds marIn e to be ouh a elvil contrast which may rightfully he dissolved under certain circumstances In gersoil holds flint a continuatIon the marriage relation after the parties have eeased to love rath other an abomination In an article descriptive of the positions of these three rilcrs tho Chicago Steroid expresses the view that neither of them have reached the real essence of tho hublert nml proceeds t draw thcfollowliigstrik ing picture of the institution of and marriage country I exists in our lime As I rule there is very little in tho average mamago that Involves tho sacredness cf a sacra cnt Men and omen drift together are interested and they man with as small regard for its real importance a1 It were an evening call Society largely frivol onj shallow unthinking These superficial people mary on sight I nonot the deeper and moro serioas feelings a involved in the un inn Marriage I a often JM not a mere shim an ephemeral impulse without any substantial foundation I is the unlmg of straws feathersor materials ma-terials filmy and flimsy Row can there be any elements of permanency In this gauzy combination There r none A r ought breeze wilt scatter them The deeper feeling of neither being Involved In-volved tho relation becomes mono tonon A year or so after marriage each is revealed in his or her real nature tbo wile incompetent for tho I charge of theWhousehold tlatternlv and n scold He degenerate into in luTerence possibly into a bruto and inebriate Dissertion follows often blows desertion wth tho result that one or the other seeks tLo divorco court for relief Among this class moJnmony speedily becomes stale rhe husband sees other women n id contrasts their freshness with the faded attractions of his wife Ho slinces cuviouslrnror iin r ni t flowers yet uUgl into I I the main monial bouquet Bjth think they could do much better could they kayo doer choice The reform in the I excessive prevalence of hivorces must b done in the nature of the InJi i vitul and not by legal measures or the dennnciatlon of the pulpit The tit is not in the laxity of Uw but m the qualities of men and women Let the reform begin with the disease rorm bin aud not waste its thee in trying to obliterate obliter-ate mere symptoms The fidelity to nature of thus por trajal is unfortunately too complete com-plete Involuntarily it suggests the condition of Itomiii society just previous to the fall of that might JIn and suggest for Uio reason I that the dUI i the toimjilloit of the latin vitaL mayreMiltto ty 11lt t our own country Such a tato of society a I here Ioscrlind cribed signifies a might reduc lon of the sum total of the happl nessofa mans or w omin life audi aud-i correspond Increase of tlm iit tcre t miseries men and nld women feel I in the limit for joys or sorrows that he their rise iu r thcalTecUous are ae is a rule the greatest that human beings experience I is little won tier that the thcqueation Is Iheucn marriage a failure which some writers have pronounced a bold if not a sacreli ious one to ask lia lately forced attention the from and discussion by American press The EDlsconal dwinmtrtt poses to amend Its I canon with I rd gnat t marriage ant divorce pre scribing more the definitely te rules which shall govern Its members and ministers in respect Uierelo rpt Ulerlo Tlie St Louis Gfcie tonocroi eleclares that I may bj doubted whether that church has the right t apply arbl tracy tests and penalties In the nt ter contrary to statutory peon steno and add slons Our lawsaro bv no msani a good a they should b uixm a subject of f miM i anne but an to attempt improve them by canonical nullification l open t serious objection The argument against the nght of a church to exercise control in the matter of marriage and divorce in a manner at variance with the civil law Is pursued at length but I I I fallacious I the right of a church t prescribe tho moral standards whirl Its members must adhere t on paaln of excommunication Is to pn taken away what I there kl c religious liberty Xolhing at all of a substantial character Matters that relate to null and divorce arc precmln enUof I moral and religious nature na-ture and religious organIzations should b penuitted to say enlist sort of conduct relative to those I matters hey f will or will not tolerate among their communleint Of course no 1enait3 save excommunication excommuni-cation should be permitted to bo executed bj any chnrci urn 3 meml the suljeet under dijcuEslou bone b-one of the great problems of tho age ant I nn well be double whether human wisdom I aLe t cope with and find a solution font |