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Show MARRIAGE INDISSOLUBLE. J At a mission in St. Joseph's church. Indianapolis. Indianap-olis. Rev. W. S. Kress spoke on the evils of "Divorce "Di-vorce and Race Suicide." lie said: "As man is a social being and intended by God to pass his life in the society of his fellows, the first tendency to sociability is manifested in the family relation." said Father Kress in his lecture. "Family life has its origin iu the will of God, and for the Avell-being of the family God provided that there should be but one husband and one wife, and that the relation between them should be. permanent. perma-nent. .This two-fold provision came to be disregarded disre-garded in the lapse of time, but Christ restored marriage to its original character and solemnly proclaimed: 'What God has joined together let no man put asunder.' uti . it . i i :v .i iu; union oeiwcen ine nusoaim aim wue is so sacred that it can be severed only by the death of one of the parties, even unfaithfulness does not justify a severance of the nuptial bond in a real and valid Christian marriage, it has been said that Christ made an exception to the rule of indissolubility indis-solubility for this one cause, but. this is not the case, as will be seen from a careful reading of the Scriptures. "The Christian law on marriage is presented by others beside Matthew. It is. referred to in the books of Mark, I. Corinthians and Romans. These witnesses leave no doubt as to the indissolubility of Christian marriage. In I. Corinthians x and xi, St. Paul saj-s expressly: 'But to them that are married not I, but the Lord commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband, and if she depart de-part that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife " ti, c. i,.,,. ,11..1 i... fi, divorce evil, and classed as far more important than any national question before the people at the present time. Statistics .were given, gathered by the national government, to show what is being done in the "American game of progressive matrimony." matri-mony." In Canada there were six million people in 11)02. Among these millions there were eight divorces in one year, said the speaker. "Only eight. " Yet this number so shock exL.theEpiscopal church of Canada Can-ada that at a following convention it adopted resolutions reso-lutions forbidding its clergymen to marry any divorced di-vorced person. That is the correct solution. Let all ministers of Christ proclaim Christ's teaching! Let them take a fearless stand on the indissolubility indissolubil-ity of valid Christian marriages." The speaker denounced race suicide in strong terms. He characterized a certain class of medical practitioners as the basest body of men to be found iu human society, men ready to murder helpless children at so much a head. . , |
