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Show DIVORCE WORST, EVIL OF THE . PRESENT . AGE.' WASHINGTON, April 20. "The Jews are preserving lhj home and family better than- we Christians are doing. I do not know how to account for this, but I do know It to be a fact." Bishop Satterlee of the Episcopal church made this declaration In a sermon here last night. In which the main subject of his discourse was divorce. Men. said the' bishop, are losing respect for the home and caring less' for the family, the unit of our- civilisation. - "On the shoulders ot the husbands and fathers of the land." he .continued, "rests the responsibility for the low estate to which the family has fallen in this country. coun-try. This fosters and encourages the greatest curse of the age divorce and the loose manner in which the sacred marriage, mar-riage, vows are being kept." "The great evil the moist frightful danger dan-ger of our age is divorce end the breaking break-ing down of -the family Institution," said the bishop. "If it is not stopped, the women of this country andur race, will be degraded witnin fifty years." |