Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01


in spite of these narrow-minded gentlemen
the world does move-advanced ideas CON
troll the best educational institutions II
this and other lands, the co-education OF
the sexes will continue to gain favor, and
poor old decrepid, hide-bound Columbia
college will be left.
The ease with which divorces are OBJ
tanned is one of the worst features of the
present day. Not in the newer Western
states alone, but in staid, Puritan New
England, facility exists for sevsring the
marriage tle,that is not only reprehensible,
but alarming. Neither our civiliza-
proper barrier. Social life is thus mar
red, lives wrecked, and immortality encour-
aged. If remarriage, on the part of di-
vorced persons, were forbidden, there
would be fewer suits for divorce. On most
frivolous pretenses, incompatibility of dis
position, the desire of change, to put away
one, merely to crafty new preference,
divorces are sought and readily granted.
Should not the Protestant church put forth
a vigorous, determined, combined effort
to change this vicious practice, by the
strictest and most stringent cosrss of
moral requirements, and by e1srtirg an in
fuence, to so change and regulate civil
legislation, as to greatly lesson, if not to
entirely eradicate this destructive cancer;
this burning disgrace, from our social and
domestic life? The Catholic church is to
be commended for its course and position
on this subject. And if all other Christian
denominations were equally resolute and
persistent in antagonizing divorces, that
pernicious and revolving pracrice of di-
vorce-getting, would be greatly abridged.
A Catholic priest, unless deceived, will not
perform the marriage ceremony to unite
with another, divorced person in the
holy bonds of matrimony; or,
at least, bonds that ought to
be holy. All Protestant clergymen as
well as Catholic priests should be forbid
den to perform the ceremony for the re-
marriage of divorced persons, and the civil
law should be made to affix a penalty on
magistrates or clergymen, for officiating
in the remarriaGe of the divorced. This
would lead to greater care and caution,
perhaps, in the formation of the marriage
relatIon-and if tho choice proves to have
been ill-advised, or unsatisfactory, let the
rather than that society should be democrat
lied, and virtue scandalized, by divorce and
remarriage. Apply the actual cautsry,
and make 4 remarriage, after divorce,
for any cause, orirne- as bigamy now is,
and punish it as it deserves.
We have alluded with commenda-
ton to the Catholic care and practice in
regard to this matter, and NJ here subioin
statement Of Father Horstmen, of Phila-
delphia, to correct q mistaken notion of
Protestants in regard to the position of
Catholics in reference to divorces. He says:
''The Catholic church does not sanction
divorce for adultery. Never. That was for
ever settled at the council of Trent. In case
of adultery they may live apart, but that
only applies to bed and board. But to put
one woman aside and marry another
never! England was lost to the church be-
cause she would not allow Henry VIII. to
marry Anne Boleyn. Her troubles with Phil
ip the Fair, of France, Frederick Barbaros-
sa, of Germany, and numbers of others, all
had their cause in the inviolable law of
God and his church@'Whom God hath
joined let no man put asunder.' The Ro-
man Catholic church never forsook wom-
an and never will. In a word, mar
riage is of God, and is absolutely indis-
soluble" That utterance gives no
uncertain sound, and is almost like a voice
of salvation, to rescue humanity from pol
luting crimes. The practice and precept
of the Catholic church is worthy of all
communication. "Whom God hath Joined
let no man put asunder." Let this stir
ring injunction, now too much neglected
or forgotten, echo and rs-echo through the
world. Let it be religiously obeyed and
the remarriage of the divorced be impos-
sible, and decisive blow will have been
struck ~ d monster vice and immortality,
and society IN ell it's moral and domestic
aspects will experience a purifying and
renovating effect that will add manifold
blessings to human life. One Protestant
clergyman in New York city.
the Rev. Morgan Dix, deserves
we'll of the church and society
at large, because of his emphatic utter.
ances in regard to the fearfully increasing
disregard of Gods law, in regard to the
soundness of the marriage tie, in the fscil-
ity in procuring divorces. His brave e1-
ample ought to be universally followed.
The laxness of New England, in regard to
the principle involved in marriage and di-
vorce, is fearful and unaccountable. The
number of divorces granted in one year in
Maine was ATS; in New Hampshire, PAL
in Vermont, 1877; in Massachusetts, 600; in
Connecticut, 4O1; and in Rhode Island
1876. This is startling and amazing. Add
to this the immense number of divorces
granted in other states where the laws in
regard to marriage and divorce are equal
~ or more lax, and we have a lamentabls
presentation that is most alarming. Tall
Of polygamy and its suppression IL
Utah, but forget not the growing dis
ruption of the marriage tie, the blight and
ruin entailed in consequence in domes-
| tic life the unsettliup OF morality Virtue