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Show childless n:c:i ' I : CAN FLD LE5SCN James Creetmaa la Pittsburg Dispatch. President Roosevelt's denunciation of the ease-loving; selfishness which avoids marriage and the "married cowardices which shrink from the-begetting- of children species of "race suicide" Inspired Archbishop Farley, speak ingr for his church, to utter a few frank words to the American people; "If the race Is dying out on this continent con-tinent the evidences of it are not to be found within the frontiers of the Catholic Cath-olic church,- he aald. "We hold that marriage Is a sacrament, and that do man or woman may avoid its: natural consequences, save by deadly sin, an Impiety abominable and sacrlligious. "The modern conceptions of matrimony matri-mony which ignores the sacrament, holds the tie lightly as a contract to be voided by human decrees of divorce and introduces theories of political economists econo-mists into a divinely ordained order of nature. That Is pure paganism. The church preaches everywhere as a re llgious duty the law of Eden, given by God himself to the first husband and wife, 'Increase and multiply.' "There is no shrinking; from marriage or the consequences of marriage wherever wher-ever true Catholics are found," continued con-tinued Archbishop Farley. "Go over to the East. Side district In which I spent so large a part of my life, and you wUl find that almost every Catholic home looks like a school. There you will find married life blessed with abundance of children. Heaven prospers these honest, hon-est, brave men and women and their handsome, laughing children. They are the bulwarks of the Nation. Robert Burns has expressed it all in The Cotter's Cot-ter's Saturday Night.' "There la not a husband and wife in New Tork so poor that I would not wish them more children. Whenever I enter a house in which there are many little ones I always say. 'Qod bless you for raising; this large family.' If the edu-cated edu-cated and the rich avoid the natural responsibilities re-sponsibilities of marriage it is to their ' greater shame, for they can support large families with less effort. To the selfishly childless ricn man or woman who wonders how the poor of this city can bear the hardships of their lives j contentedly, I would say, 'Go to the homes of the poor and see their children. chil-dren. There Is the secret of social bliss. There is the sweetness of poverty.' "I fully agree with President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's words. ; The man or woman who will not marry for fear of parental responsibilities, re-sponsibilities, or who, being married, challenges the will of God by seeking to escape from having a family, is a coward cow-ard and unworthy of respect.' |