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Show DIVORCE HELD GRAVE DANGER Churchmen Declare Ideas of Pagans Weaken American Amer-ican Homes NEW YORK, July 20 The homes of America are In chaos because of 1 divorce and la. k of Christian teach-; IngS among families, according 10 ft report of the Joint commission on homes of the Episcopal church to bo presented to the forty-seventh trlenr.al general conference In September at Portland, iiregnn. and made public today to-day The report, which is signed by some of the mosl distinguished bishops. ec- elesioatlCS and laymen of the church , speaks of "th broken. discordant horae-llfe of the American people." and declares the only remedy is to be found "in Christian training 1 alone." The committee attacks American divorce di-vorce laws as making marriage a m -re means for physical union, a legalised concubinage, and warns that unless Christian Ideals are instilled into the young people the nation will go the way of pagan homes. ( I'liniK AIvONE FAILhS. Advanced culture did not save past civilizations, did not prevent Germany plunging Into a gull of infamy Upon America's consecration to God depends de-pends her fate, says the report, which contains an exhaustive study of social and Industrial conditions In the I nil-ed nil-ed states with particular refcrcm e I 1 home life. The commission was appointed by the Episcopal general convention oix j years ago, and includes In Its per-j sonnol some r,f tho most distinguish-1 ed of the bishops, clerical and lav, members of tin church. Among other oth-er subjects Which are frankly treat. l are those of marriage, aivorce red birth control The report contain- . strong recommendation against iht latter. The Rev. Charles Noyes Tyil-dell Tyil-dell S. T. U.. of Wllllomsport, l'a-. secretary of the commission, in transmitting trans-mitting th- report says that the whole 1 effort of the commission, has been 10 present to the country a vital message In as concise form as nosslble D1ETY FORGOTTEN. 'Even a cursory glance at conditions condi-tions in the aerage American honu I reveals evidence sufficient to wur- rant the most careful study of those Influences now affecting these homes from the standpoint of moral;- and religion," re-ligion," the report continues. "Thei a 1 lit ad p toward youth, even mure 1 h ml the attitude of the uih, wll scarcely scarce-ly beur severe scrutiny. "We touch the root of our family problem when we point to th.- l ick of religion In the home. It is paralysing to think of the average American iam-1 lly going on from the rising to tliel retiring hour as if God had no existence ex-istence Sunday la a day for extra sleep, motoring Sunday papers In 1 many Volumes, Comic supplements. If I American children are not to b I Ughl of God in the schools, and- lie, I is unnamed In the home what an we expect but that nt this mom. nt th'.' 1 nlted States is actually developing into a non-Christ lan nation?." Touching upon domestic lie In America, Am-erica, the report says. "Where family life Is dishonored.1 wedding Unfaithfulness lightly regard-, ed. parental responsibility ne'lectud, j filial respect and obedience slighted, I there, we may be sure, society ia 1 often of-ten at the core We tremble for the' future of a stato or nation whore lax! theories concerning domestic lift, pain' ground Even la.xer practise will certainly cer-tainly prevail. K i si h um , DANGERS, I "The remedy for the frightful dissolution disso-lution of the marriage tie going on in America and its inevitable couoe-quence couoe-quence of race suicide is to be found ,ln Christian training alone. Re medal legislation while imposing difficulties in the way of easy annulment does not go to the root of the evl it ttaai kg many outward symptoms of the disease dis-ease and Is of undoubted vain., but il does not destroy the acrrn of the evil or cure It at Its source. "Boys and girls must be taught a-early a-early as possible that the chief purpose pur-pose of marriage is the perpetuation of the race. Involving the begetting ana education of children for the work of the world. Marriage Is a high and holy vocation because th married pair are co-operating with the creator in the continuance of the human r&u This commission heartily endows the warning uttered bv the great Lam-i b'-th conference 0 bishops, gathered SOT a" .ver lhc world ln London In 19-0 . against the practlco of means for the avoidance of conception as In volvlng grave dangers to physical' health as well as moral innocence, and' threatening the (ture of the human I race. o mako our own tho words he conference committee as applying In particular to the Lulled States"'1 WESTERN BISHOPS SIGN tv.m r,?w lB S'ncd bv Rt 'Rev. William 11 Moreiand. D D. , bishop of acraemn to, who is chairman of the commission Rt. Rev. Sidney Catlln Partridge, D, D., bishop of West Mis" d 2: .lshoev P"1 IJncoin SS O n, bishop of western New Yorl; bishnV Wter Tjlor 8unnr ITS' . . t. P" blshop coadjutor of cen- bishop of Bfle, the Rev J. H MelMsh of Brooklyn, the Rev Edwin R r L of Los Angeles, the Rk F S Trtl C,.nIton0fRI,lt,ShU Roh " |