Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-22

y not have Christians do as the Greek!
: did, and as some savage nation;
!, still do-put the sickly and weakly
to death. Why, the essence oil
l early Christianity was its superior
: Illumination, the effort TO suppress
? the worldly aud selfish in the Indi-
vidual. And that IS what all the
great thinkers Of today are trying TO
do, though they ignore much that
is at present orthodox. IL is against
the brutality which destroys the
sick and weak that Matthew Arnold,
Thomas Carlisle. John Ruskin, Her
bert Spencer and hundreds Of Others
have written book after book.
| Col. Ingersoi says a good deal
about what is not found in the Bible
about family aud dOmesticity and
so forth. The Bible gives code OF
morality which if observerd will
lead to education, refinement and
happiness; yet this wise philosopher
gTumbles because We do not get
pictures Of the homes Of the apes
ties, and scientific theories and
speculatiOns. He might as well
grumble because God does not give
US in addition 10 reason and intel
lect. a house and lot, five acres aud
n mule. He says the celibacy OF
the early Christians is an indication
that marriage was deSpised. The iact /
is celihacy was not a practice OF the
early Christians. IL first orginated
in Spain, and gradually extended "
self until Il prevailed all through
the Latin branch Of the Catnoic
church. Today the two great ulNI-
sions of American Christians arr
Protestant and Catholic, one WAN
celihate priesthood, the other a mar
ried priesthood. Ia view OF the
existing in both, the
reIihate Is to bc preferred. For in
stance. when Father Moysant ran
,wny with Mike McDOnald's wife,
he father left no wife and children !
behind. and only one family, that OF
he injured husbands, was ruined. S
When the FIVE hundred preachers Z
q protestant sects, who annually
un away with other mems wives,
10 so, they injure double the num- d
,er, viz, their own families and i
hose Of the husbands. Ifthey were i
eIihates the evil would be only one
Ialf. :
The Colonel further talks about O
marriage as a civil contract, and yet i
e wants this contract so that Il can :
c broken by within or CAPRICE. The I
uying Of a mule is n contract but 6
hen the mule gets old or broken {
ne cannot demand his money lack
ON tho former owner. The Colonel
rduIges in n lot Of fiummery, but
fter all really says nothing about 4
ivorce. 4
Every sensible man viii admit .
lat there are reasons in many cases n
by divorce should. exist, but Il 4
Mould be controlled 10y some \
authority, and among !.
.ligiOnists by their church. Eff :
,rts should lie made to smooth !,
yer difficulties, and teachers Il
nd spiritual directors might with
Vantage he consulted before the
lsty disruption Of n family is
fected. In this case it is not en-
rely what the Bible says or does g
II say; il is mans own internal in p
iration acting in accord with the u
,ht ami guidance Of his superiOrs N
counsel and wisdom. "
The Cardinal has 100000 fol- l
wers in the United States. He ~
Us divorce docs not exist among NJ
en- Bishop Potter has few fol- ii
vers also. Divorce, he says. is
re among them. Then this throws
the divorces among n section Of
e American people, and if the di- 81,
rec statistics are correct, among Of
IS section a most extensive system m
POlygamy and pOlyandEy both IA
Ist prevail. JUNIUs. Ira