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Show AN UNACKNOWLEDGED CAUSE. The wide divergence of the views held by the Catholic Church and those of the average French infidel on most moral subjects may account for a great deal of ihe persecution that has been heaped upon the Church in that land of infidelity. The Church imposes restrictions upon the lines of its followers the same restrictions which were handed down from Heaven so long ago that, they don't count any more with the twentieth century "advanced"" "ad-vanced"" thinkers, whose morals are guided by "reason" and convenience, mostly convenience. The.se restrictions limit tlie "freedom" of moral degenerates, and rationality likes to be free to do as it pleases to soar, untrammeled, to ethereal heights, or to sink dip into the mires of lust. For instance, the French view of matrimony 'is more or less a business proposition. The matrimonially matri-monially inclined Frenchman of the higher order of intelligence looks for a wife with a scrutiny of her financial and social standing, her position by birth, her education and tastes, that ia actually grewsome. He wants to form a partnership with a woman with money. If the financial partner should go bankrupt, it is a simple matter to bring the romantic ro-mantic holiday to a close, and try another partner in the enterprise. He regards matrimony as a compromise between bis own richts and the richts i of society! and any other view, especially the view of the ChJrch, that it is a divinely appointed institution, insti-tution, hjl.y. end its vows inviolable, he regards as ascetic fanaticism, not worthy of consideration by a completely free. man. We cannot help but feel that in the strong restraining re-straining force exerted by the Church of God. and m the con tant prickings of conscience experienced by these ' free" men by the continual presence of that i'orc( , lie a subtle and unacknowledged cause for the a horrent conditions now existing in fair France, a cause, the abolition of which would leave them unrestrained in their rational morality, no longer subjected to const tnt reminders of their infidelity, in-fidelity, fx |