The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-22
TRINITY CHAPEL.

Lecture by Rev. Morgan Dix Mt Trinity
Chapel Last Evening, Welded Life
UDivOrce il Naked Henthcnism i'm q Modern
Dress"
AT Trinity chapel In Twenty.fth street, last even
ing, assembled an unusually large congregation.
Every seat was filled and the aisles well packed
with people standing. 1t had been announced that
the Rev. Morgan DIX would lecture on "Home, Mar.
rage ana Divorce" and this evidently attracted the
crowd.
lie said, In the language Of the races Of the
North, those great and powerful nations, in whose
veins is flowing the Celtic Gothic aud saxon blood,
there Is word which seems to belong to them as II
by special right. That word-our own especial
treasure-is
q word for which the Latin and the Greek, and the
tongues Of Southern Europe have no equivalent
We all know these things and feel them, for that
dear word ''home'' belongs to US also. God keep
us true to It, But there Is religious side to
this question. or these e.
TWO ESTATES OF LIFE
which are now under consideration, that OF the
welded is the first and more general and 1t Is this
which gives to mankind the joys, the comforts the
rights ami security OF "nome." Domestic life Is
that which men and women in general were i'll
tended TO lead. But to form cny just idea OF its
sanctity Its value, Its excellence, we must consider
IL not Us Vi meTe CIVIL COntrdct-uOl US
condition only which Legislatures make and law
courts enforcc-uot as mere temporary expedicnt
to be replaced hereafter by some better invention
for social objects. but as having the strongest claim
that can possibly be made on our rcverent mainte.
nance and protection. Domestic liieis
TIE RESULT OF MARRIAGE
The home belongs IN its true sense, only to the
welded, ana therefore 1t is Divine institution, be-
cause It begins with and rests upon that law Of
llshed By Almighty God a. the first creation or hui
man beings There can be no real home without
shocking rarodies or unhalowed limitations OF
home, or the relics and remains OF what once was
home, but was fastened to extinction and is ready
TO vanish away. There Is no home without mar
rage. Marriage Is at once natural contract.
civil contract and saT TeTlo "ss SUnrasf
asy he sqssaed ' them A se and co female IL
SH Blessed them wn II. SoSa he' aneS
as u IN
their order the elements and constituent parts OF
gives His assent. 1t is q union between
ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN
only to tine exclusion Of all other whatsoever on
rom - all the maidens Of tie earth, ana he
cSoice and decision. 1t is an indssolubie union
never 10 be dissolved by thought within or act
by great death. it is contract which gives 10
each the right TO the other-a right which II IS liz
Justice anu crime 10 Ueny or eVauc. IL Is n con-
tract which brings duties and responsibilities OF
the gravest description Gods first command to
his creatures, "Create and multiply" gives con.
tradcuon TO the error OF the Orient AMI modern
Maincheons The renewal Of that ancient law, with
the added
SANCTIONS OF THE GOSPEL,
condemned In advance the evil suggestions or the
hcentous; ind all healthy minds all honest hearts,
all decent clean-ving people must he on the side
OF God and The church. lie must be utterly per-
verteJ In mind and heart VINO can sneer at
the order OF that domestic ne which God and the
Church together bless, nor comprehend the nature
wedlOck. nor look without desire on the peaceful
amenities OF q Christian home.
DIVORCE
is the next danger which threatens the destruction
Uf the very Idea OF home. II Is the sequel to reCk-
lessness IN marriage. What 10 carelessly under
taken wlt10ut any sufiicent notoriety and against
all rules OF sound wisdom ana discretion will very
soon need 10 be undone; and here corrupt legIsa-
ton comes In to the assistance OF more corrupt
Divorce was never contemplated by the Almighty.
1t has been rowned on by the Church and regarded
as abnormal. she can hardly take TOO nigh or too
rigid view OF this subject. She must not be de-
ceved by human laws; they do but reject human
passion and human desire facilitating their ndulg-
ence. To make divorce easy Is TO UNDERMINE Chris
tan civilization. IL Is not Christianity; II Is defiance
o! Christ's painest words; 1t Is
NAKED uEATnENlsM IN MODERN DRESS.
The darkest enemy OF home Is the doctrine OF
eclectic affinity. Thinking OF the grim ana ghasty
ruin which would follow on this return OF man to a
by their imperfect nature merely, faithful TO
their mates, II IL comfort to feel and know that
such icentous speculations cannot prevail over the
pr0QClpQ OF Lha txfcaent aud nQh0 In W