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Show MOTHERS' PENSION IS A GOOD LAW Salt Lake March in. The Idea of pensioning needy mothers was dis cussed at the evening sers ices In the First Methodist Episcopal church yesterday yes-terday hv tbe Res Francis Burgette Short pastor The speaker expressed the opinion that the State should be come a father to the fatherless and guarantee protection and furnish support sup-port to needy mothers Five reasons were given for the pas tor s opinion as expressed First, he explained that the families of the state, with the family ties that bold them together. Bhould bo preserved, second, the mothers of the state can best mother their own children; third they Cannol properly mother their own children If they are obliged to earn R living for themselves and children; chil-dren; fourth, a mother Is a better mother than our institutions can possibly pos-sibly be. ant fifth, the mothei is rendering a valuable service for and to the state. "In sie-A of these things ' said tie-Rev. tie-Rev. .Mr Short, "should not the Btate become a father to the fatherless, guaranteeing them protection and support sup-port in this hour of Imperative need?" i the morning sers ice the Rev. Mr Short discussed "The Sanctity of Marriage ami the Deviltry of Divorce." Di-vorce." in the course of his address the pastor declared that there is no earthly obligation or contract moi' binding or as sacred as tbe marriage contr.mt and that no civil court or ecclesiastical body has any right to assume to break BUCh an obligation or to nullify such B contract. The Rev Mr Short spoke of Ihn e periods of our history in regard to the attitude tosvard marriage The first of these was the batbarlan per iod. when the wife was a mere mutter mut-ter of convenience and taken bj the husband by brute force The BOCOUd period was characterized as the e-.u period It, according to the Rev Mi short transferred the unit from Ihe Individual to the family and caused the de viopnif nt of the tribes Law, rather than love, howeser. was the foundation of the home I'nder that period polygamy was des eloped, and In that connection 'he speaker de clared that man has no more right to more than one wife than has a woman to more than one husband "Loe rather than law " said the Speaker sacrifice rather than servitude, servi-tude, and mutual symp.it h- rather than the urbiug bond oT legalism should characterise the relation be-tsveen be-tsveen husband and wife The third period, which was the Ba-cred Ba-cred period in the attitude toward marriage, began with the Jewish rat e The Ke Mr Short told the storv of the marriage of Adam and Eve ami said thaj Eve was not Adam's propei ty or his slave, but his companion, his supplement and omplomcnt He sa id i ha i i hi rewfl did not con fin themselves to the ideal regarding the sanctity of marriage, but fell into polygamy; however, the ideal was I preserved and svas recognized by the I early Christians and by Christ who honored sacred marriage svlth his presence i "But in spite of all the sanctity,"' , said Ihe Rev Mr Short, "the deviltry 'of divorce projects itself and becomes I an incalculable enemy to society, per petratlng grievous wrongs upon inno-I inno-I cent childhood ' |