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Show Creed intolerance and religious animosity are on the wane. At a banquet given by the Alumni Association of the Catholic University at Washington, Wash-ington, Vice President Fairbanks said: "Although I belong to a different church. I. with most of my countrymen, have come to realize re-alize that the Catholic Church is one of the patent and enduring agencies for righteousness and good. "In my younger Jays I knew of a strong antagonism an-tagonism to the Catholic Church. Years have led me to see those differences fade away. I am a trustee of the. American University. On the books of the American University is the record of a loan j of $10,000 to a Catholic University. Imagine this transaction between a Methodist and a Catholic institution in the olden days."' It would require a very strong imagination to extend farther back than a decade of years to find any such transaction ratified. The attitude of the Catholic Church regarding the sanctity and indissolubility of marriage is attracting at-tracting the attention of the secular press. The Philadelphia North American in a recent issue said: "Divorce, which has no warrant in Divine law. stands for vice, pure and simple. "The Iioman Catholic Church deserves immense commendation for taking and resolutely standing by this view of the matter." The Catholic Church has no option in the matter. mat-ter. A defined doctrine, having its foundation in the Scripture, as all dogmas of faith have, is un-nchangeable. un-nchangeable. Death alone dissolves the union of a valid marriage. "Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, to-gether, let no man put asunder." This conclusion is in accordance with original ordinance enacted in Paradise making the union indissoluble: "She is bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh. Therefore, There-fore, shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife," i. e., be most intimately united. "And they two shall be in one flesh." A union of two "in one flesh" is the closest, and strictest union imaginable, and if we take the original institution in-stitution of marriage as our guide, the conclusion of our Savior would mean that it is against nature itself to cause a division, or seperation. in that which is one. "Therefore, now they are not two, but one flesh." Matthew 14:6. In the same verse is another conclusion which has direct reference to the same subject. "'What therefore God hath joined together let no man put asunder." The second "therefore" not only confirms what was stated in the first clause, viz: that it is unnatural to cause a division in that which is one, but also that it is against the positive law and divine ordinance of God. This being the case neither church nor state has any authority to dispense, much less abrogate the divine law which makes marriage indissoluble, and which dates back to the beginning of time. All. who are interested in the progress, and civilization civili-zation of the race, which, to last, must be founded on moral principles and Christian ethics, and also note the number of mismates, and the growing tendency not to mate at all as husband and wife, can not fail, to realize that instead of progressing the modern world is retrograding, as did the Gentiles Gen-tiles when they separated from the synagogue. Xot to advance is to recede. |
