Milford chronicle., 1883-03-23

other alliances. Unque5tionably. that
the point aimed at, in that divorce 70
any cause shall carry with it the freedom
to marry again, and that the causes TO
which divorce may be obtained shall b,
made SO numerous that any married
couple may easily be parted under til,
form and shadow of law. The grounds
for granting such separations should be
numerous enough to accommodate all
desiring it, and, therefore, the point to
aim at now, in view of the end ultimately
TO be attained, Is to make divorce SO easy
that it will become rs common as mar
riage itself; whereupon the legal pro-
ceedings will be given up as practically
unnecessary and mere bit Of Journalism.
and license shall reign supreme.
"In Maine a divorce, full and abso-
lute, may, be granted, not merely for
any of long list of specified causes.
but, adds the statute, by any Justice of
the Supreme Court whenever, in the ex-
ereise of a sound discretion, he deems it
reasonable and proper, conducive to do
nestle harmony, and consistent with the
peace aud morality of society," Think of
thatl A divorce may be granted on any
ground approved as reasonable by
Judge Now, what will they do when
it comes to this, that Judges with such
power may be placed in Office by the !
vote of people low in morals and honey |
combed by irreligion and godlessness? |
1t has been well pointed out, not long |
since that when these things reach the
state toward which they are drifting.
when one marriage may be lightly set
aside and another entered into, when
man can have wife after wife and
woman husband after husband, getting
rid of each in turn by a system of facile
divorce, we shall have reached the con
dition of the Mormon, with this sole diff
erence, that his polyglmy is simultane-
ous aud ours consecutive. The Mormon |
can have as many wives at once as he
can maintain the skillful divorcer can
also have many, only not all at once but '
one after the other, as fast as he can l
decently or indecently make the desired ]
changes. Nay, under that system, were I
it generally established, there would be f
no more wives, strictly so called but Z
these wretched creatures, each taken bv a
some form deemed sufficient by the law, Il
each dropped by some other form apt for k
that purpose, not bound to man for life. ii
out only during his pleasure OF her own, t.
.hese degraded and Inundated beings il
would not be wives, but simply regis W
cred coucubines." NJ
After brief statement of the "civil ca
ontract theory of marriage, - DR.. Dix OF
howed the connection Of the evil with q
ONE of the social and religious heresies :"
the day. "Thc civil contract theory VIZ
marriage is an outgrowth Of that sys- u
I'm which banishes God from the world ~
nd from human life. 1t is a principle "
a raionalzed community, Of a society Tn
hich has ceased to be Christian. Some
us are reproached for not being in nc WI
'rd with the spirit Of the age and its f5'
ovements, hut the spirit Of the age and crl
) movements are practically atheistic. six
, drop all religious ideas, to cease to l7t
cognize Gods will and law, to teach hoI
en- to live without God, is the aim Of Boz
Q modern reformer, and his views of 944
arTiage are one among the signs Of his eac
neral state of mind. Unfortunately. to &
cannot stop here. The truth must tog
told. This is not only sign of an 4
idel society; it is also an upgrowth n
m the system known as Protestant cha
/. There can be no doubt as to the ,.ot
lcsis of this abomination. IN :,
after an exhaustive consideration of revc
subject, under the differing Protest was
and Catholic theories and doctrines. this
orcing the postulate that marriage is goin
merely a civil contract, but divine dian
tuition, in lis nature sacred and in bein
able, the lecturer concluded rs fol- said
S: "Let the woman remember that tive,
the religion of Jesus Christ which Stew
sanctified her person and exalted her hawl
that every word which Christ uttered thinl
hing her in her relation to man, as equa
4, aB wife, as widow, is for her Texa
! Of life; that there is not, and can ticke
be, work more urgent for her, or pock
Q essential to her safety and honor, detec
to see that those words of Christ boys
zept perpetualIy before the commu- i've ST
blazoned aud illuminated as the he re
talisman of social security. Harm week
gh has come to her already under ont Il
lretense of a lettering of her condi- detee
The law of God makes the man numb
the woman one flesh; it gives her the cC
s which he must recognize. But from
NV Of man in revolt from God tends Tn
vide the man and wife, treats them built
o independent persons, gives the stairw
IN a separate position and separate end {
ssts. From this state it is on easy proof.
to personal separation. But when, Mexie
r. woman obtains complete inde- some
snce, she may find herself crushed goods
, burdens too great for her to bear. are no
this viii be the history: That she rent u
/ God lifted up from the state of residel
ibinage and slavery, and crowned last Il
honor aud glory as Christian wife, time
lfter having turned away from God sideral
ow her own desires, sink back to he call
,e more mans slave and concubine. that Il
onditions may vary to match the single
4 aspects Of the sv,,rl1. the tbiuo, 5o,,,ao.