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Show i(If Christianity is the highest j ly.pe of. civilization and whoj cafi deny it': then is it not true ; that we are retrograding instead , i of advancing in certain lines? 1 1 I "There is a barbarism more ; dense than the barbarism of the , ' savage tribes of the forest For j the children of tbe forest, taught 'by the god of nature, adore the Great Spirit. 1 j "I speak of a barbarism which eliminates God and the overrul-' ' ing Providence from the moral government of the world, which j takes no account of a life to 1 1 come and of the responsibilities I attached to it. j It is the fearful increase in the j number of divorce mills through-1 through-1 out the United States. j : "These mills like the mills of j I the gods, are slowly, but surely j I grinding the domestic altars ofj I the nation. . ' j ."Husband and wife are sepa-j sepa-j rated on the most flimsy pretexts, jand, as if the' different states of j j the Union were not sufficiently j accomodating in this repet, j j South Dakota has the enviable distinction of granting a divorce j for the mere asking on the sole condition of a brief sojourn within with-in her borders. ' 'I can conceive no scene more pathetic, no appeals more touching touch-ing to our sympathies, than the contemplation of a child emerging emerg-ing into the years ' of discretion, seeing her father and mother estranged es-tranged from one another.' - "Her little heart is yearning for love. She longs to embrace both parents, but she finds , that she cannot. give her.affection to one "without exciting the resentment resent-ment or displeasure of the other. GIBBON'S ON DIVORCE. Cardinal Gibbons sounds a warning note in his sermon on "Christ, the Only Enduring Name in History and the Only . True Reformer of Society." Di-1 vorce he termed . the social scourge of the nation. His eminence emi-nence said in part: "Christ is the only living force that can regenerate society. He is the only genuine social re-1 former. The nation is sick, and . ihe malady is all the more dan-1 gerouj because the patient is un-! conscious of the disease. |