The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-05-21
Too Much Divorce.


Extract from Talmage Sermon.
What society needs most now is "
make divorce more and more difficult.
Men aud women must understand that
If they q into the marriage relation,
there is no prospect Of escape except
through the door ii the sepucner. hat
will make the human race pause on the
verge VI This relation until they are sat
lslied that IL is the wisest and best thing
to do. That viii put an end to mar
rage in fun. That will take out Of the
relation all idea that it Is mere y Il trial
tnp, and that, if they don't like 1t, they
can get out AT the next landng. That
H,ll take marriage out Of the realm Vi
the frivolous into the realm Of the nc
mcndous, and the flowers in the brides
hair will be ~ more joke than the
cypress Oh her coffin " hat is most
needed is that the Congress Of the
United states, ut its present session,
move for Il change in the constitution 50
that there can he made ole Uni. Law
for all the land, and what is riglltln one
State shall be right in all States, and
what is wrong in one State shall be
wrong in all the States. Now dlsaiicct-
ed partners in marriage may move from
State TO State and achieve liberation
from tie domestic Tie - very easily that
the other partner knows nothing Of IL
until he or she reads III the newspapers
that "On the 18th day OF April, 1854,
by the Rev. DR.. Somebody" the party
Il little while abselt from home on Il
pleasure excursion at Newport or bust
ness III Chicago-has been introduced
into another marital partnership; mar
rlage at the brides Residence no cards. "
In some Of the States II practical pre-
MUM Is put upon matrimonial dlsln-
tcgration, while some Of the States, like
our own, New York, have the prc-cmi-
uent idiocy Of making marriage lawful
1T II and II years o.. age. Let Con-
grcss, through Il committee made up Of
single gentlemen, but Of men Of FAM.
lies, who have their households with
them in Washington, after the requisite
change in the constitution, prepare one
good, common sense, stringent law on
the subject Of marriage and divorce
which will cover everything, from San
dy Hook to Golden Horn. Then tho
brokerage in marriage will cease, and
the divorce lawyers will 60 INTO respect.
able practice, and those who are plan
ming how they can escape from the mar.
ital oath will 60 to work planning how
they may adjust themselves to the more
or less uniavorubIc circumstances. More
rigid divorce laws will do much towarc
stopping very common eyil-marriag,
+ AS financial speculation.
, RgidIty Of divorce law will also keel
hundreds Of women from the failure .
attempting To reform men by narryln,
them. She knows he drinks, although
he tries to hide it by chewing cloves
Parents and friends warn her. No
she will attempt his
REFORM By MARRIAGE,
and If she fail the law will cmancipat,
her, for habitual drunkenness is caus,
for divorce in Indiana, Connecticut
Florida, Arkansas, California and Ken
lucky, and almost all the States. ),
the poor thing goes to the altar Of sacri
flee. SHOW me where the povcrty.strucl
streets of any city are, aud | will show
you whole lines OF houses where are the
women who married men to reform
them. The reiormatory attempt may
be successful in one case out of ten
thousand, but | have never seen one
successful experiment. Rightly Of d.
.Orco law will lead woman to say, I'll
| am alIlanced ~ that man, it is proba
bly, forever, and if now in the ardor OF
his young love, and am the prize to be
won, he will not give up his cups, after
he has won the prize he will surely not
Gi'c them up. No, sir, you are married
{" yoar club-room and married to your
.ey habit, and you are bigamist al
Ieuy. COP