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Show MEW MARRIAGE LAW. Anticipating: the new marriage law which prohibits pro-hibits the remarrying of divorced persons for one year after the dissolution of the nuptial tie, there has been a stampede to the divorce court during the past two weeks. The daily papers rave the list of divorces last Sunday. They numbered in this ? city 104 in a little over two months. From this long Ijst it may be fairly inferred that marriage i does not lead to t hat perfect paradise, which the I brilliant fancies of youthful lovers hoped for, and 1 ' pictured when recounting their mutual love. What- ever may be the dissensions in the home, divorce is f a poor remedy to pet rid of them Man's life is deslinrd to be one of labor and struggle. He who expects to find an Elysium in this mundane sphere, j f will be disappointed. The very fact that divorce j j may be obtained, is the cause of family dissensions I ' and quarrels. If the divorce laws were more strin- i gmt, and bargain counters for the divorcees less plentiful, married persons would exercise more power in controlling and regulating their feelings. Parties who find themselves not so well maled as ? ihey expected to be. would get over their difficul- i ' ties. It requires only an effort. Where there is J a will there is a way. To say one's feelings are beyond control is a bad doctrine in morals. Feol- j ings go hand in hand with one's duties. ' i I Marriage is. in its very nature, indissoluable. j j When contracted, it. ought to be entered into for j life. If there should, be a mutual understanding i ! between the contracting parties that there were I reservations as to time, they would not consider it a marriage. It would lock the character of sanc- i "j 1ity, and be merely considered a passing exchange ' of passion and caprice. Hence divorce can not be !: ! claimed as a matter of justice, and should not be " .' granted on the ground of the mutual consent of Ihe parties concerned. A divorce rarely benefits woman. The feelings and sentiments which desire it are seldom realized, and when not realized, it means trouble and worry. The breaking up of 104 homes within the past two months in our city, can , not fail to have a baneful effect on society. The I ease and alacrity one was obtained in less than f four hours after it was applied for with which these divorces may be obtained, is wrong in princi ple and injurious 1o the faith and morals. What ! is the remedy for this growing evil A return to j the first marriage law given in Paradise: "What j God hath joined together, let no man put asunder."' |