Divorce and the Ministers. More attention than is usually paid to the utterances of clergymen in these unorthodox days, has been accorded three prominent New York divines during the last few months, owing to their extensive views on the subject of divorce. They might have delivered eloquent orations, which would have embellished the English lan- guage and illustrated their own deep learning in Bible lore, and their congregations would have quietly napped in upholstered pews. But a strong sentence or two plainly uttered regarding the duty of the church to refuse a remarriage to a divorced man or woman, brought an alarmed interest into languid faces and drove sleep from lazy eyelids. A few people are always ready to listen to theories on the origin of man.
Sex attraction is a subject of universal interest.
The spiritual, the mental, and the physical must all unite in a perfect marriage, and there must be mutual sacrifices, mutual yielding and mutual thoughtfulness, from the alter to the grave. I do not believe God requires any man or woman to live a lifetime of misery because of an error made in early youth. The next best thing to a happy marriage is free- dom from an unhappy one. Much is said of the shadow which rests upon chil- dren whose parents are divorced. Little is said of the scars which are left forever upon the hearts of children reared in a discordant home.