Show i Marriage I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE CRAN Mrs Rose Hose Pastor Stokes in speaking of marriage e recently said that It was an institution that made for tor Immorality Her contention was Wag that a n. man mem an an woman who Jived together as husband and wife wire ut did not I love each cach ch other were guilty of Immorality Occasionally this may be bo true There Js Is much In immorality Im- Im im- im morality committed in the name of It must be remembered that all relations between the tho sexes have been tried and marriage has stood the test better than any of them Marriage Is not an Invention of ot the church of the state It Is not something that has been Imposed upon man b by an outside authority People get married because they want to They Just naturally prefer livIng with one mate all their thel lives And this is a more wholesome preference than promiscuity Ve We have tried all the relations such as polygamy polygamy polygamy poly poly- gamy concubinage and so forth And Arid marriage i ithe Is the best relation so far discovered for the protection of the the- ideals o of the adult and the welfare of th the children Marriage is an evolution the consummate flower flowe of or the growth of or humanity In civilization It Is no noan not an artificial barrier Imposed upon us Of or course cours marriage being human is fault faulty and there are man many instances of breakdown But it i Is all a question pf of average The unfortunate victims are not so plentiful In marriage as they would be In any other kind o or of relation Without any marriage Jaws laws and with promiscuity established as a habit among men and women civill would soon fall Marriage exists today not because beuse of the penalties against Irregularity nor because of the evils that tha afflict the marriage relation but because lovers lover want It A man gets more pleasure out of living loyally with one woman than thap he does out of living HYing willa with will witha a great groat many This he does as a rule and as a n. general general general gen gen- eral thing and as long as this holds true the marriage marriage mar mar- relation will continue 1 Copyright 1925 by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate I |