Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-23

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= would this do: ''The Bosses Of ii
:. Liberal Party VS.. Constitution;
> Rights and Religious Liberty"
+ MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
: y FRESH impetus has been give
: to the discussion Of this perennial
; theme by the recent action regard
ing il, Of the Episcopal church, ant
the publication of three papers upol
; it in the North american Rericl
for November, written respectively
by Cardinal Gibbons, who enunci
ates the Roman Catholic doctrine,
Bishop Potter, who defines the posi-.
ton Of the Episcopal church relative
to the question, ami Col. r. G..
mgersOll, who expresses the views
Of that class Of thinkers among
whom he is a leader. Cardinal
Gibbons holds marriage to be a
sacrament indissolubIe save under
circumstances Of such magnitude
as justifies n dispensation by
the Pope. Bishop Potter holds
marriage to be only civil contract,
which may rightfuny he dissolved
under certain circumstances. In
gersoll holds that a continuation Of
the marriage relation, after the
parties have ceased TO loye each
other an abomination.
In an article descriptive Of the
positions Of these three writers, the
Chicago Herald expresses the view
that neither Of them have reached |
the real essence Of the subject. and |
proceeds to draw the following strik-
ing picture Of the institution oil
marriage, as it exists in our time
and country.
AS q rule, there is very little in the
average marriage that involves the
sacredness Of Sacra ent. Men and
women drift together, are interested.
and they marry with as small rersrd
for its real importance as If It were an
evening call. Society is largely frivol-
Gus, shallow, unthinking. These
people marry on sight;
loneof the deeper and more serious
ceilings are involved in the union.
Marriage is as often as not a more :
Fhim, an ephemeral impulse without
my substantial foundation. Itistbs
hitting OF straws, feathers. or ma /
srials filmy and flimsy. How can /
here be any clements Of permanency
n this gauzy combination? There s
re none. a very slight breeze I
vii scatter them. The deeper
ceilings OF neither being in !
olved, the relation becomes mono- n
onous. 4 year or so after marriage o
ach is revealed in his or her real {
AZURE; the wife incompetent for the c
barge Of the household. slatternIv. q
nd n scold. He de-enerates into in q
possibly into brute and !,
lebriate. DISCRETION follows, often Il
lows, desertion, with the result that L
he or the other seeks the divorce
'urt for relief. Among this class Il
atrimony speedily becomes stale q
ne husband sees other women aud :.
ntrasts their freshness with the y,
ded attractions Of his wife. He In
lnces obviously over the feminine
,wers vet ungsthered into the matri- hi
onial bouquet. Both think they Je
uld do much better could they have w
other choice The reform in the -,
cessiyo prevalence Of divorces must i'm
done in the nature Of the inIi- W,
iual, and not by legal measures or du
denunciation Of the pulpit. The 81
1t is not in the laxity Of law, but in me
qualities Of men and women. Let "a
reform begin with the disease, and
waste its time in trying to obliter- to
mere symptoms Oh
The fidelity TO nature of this nor CIV
yal is, unfortunately, too com The
te. Involuntarily it suggests the an,
dition Of Roman society lust !
vi0us TO the fall of that mighty adl
pire, and suggests, for the reason bni
the family is the foundation of itst
nation, what may result To our enc
country. the
ich a state Of society as is here mo
'ribed signifies a mighty reduc- con
oi the sum total Of the happi- lett
offs mans or womau's life. and an
'rresponding increase Of the hit AZ AZ.
t miseries men and women feel II
lie flesh; for joys or sorrows that Syr
2 their rise in the affections are. exp
rule, the greatest that human r. r.,
IS expert ence. 1t is little Won bus
that the question, 'Is marriage it il
lure?' which some writers have ~
oun-..l , III We
q" "oiI Il not sacreli- this,
S one to ask, has lately forced viii
ltlon from and discussion bv the
press. tan
e Episcorol 5o,,o,,,;.. of "
TO amend its canon with no bec,
to marriage AMI divorce. pre- its n
ing more definitely the rnIes type
h shall govern its members and s som
sters in respect thereto. The Rom
ouis GSO6e Democrat declares print
may be doubted whether that was
h has the Fright to apply arbi- Nv i've
tests and penalties in the mat and
contrary 10 statutory provi. bear
" and adds: "Our laws are nv tuuic
ans as good as they should be were Sere
a subject Of so much import- and q
but an attempt TO improve But t
by canonical notification Is the "
o serious Objection.D were Mere
argument against the right Of from
-ch to exercise control In the contil
of MARRIAGE and 5;,a- ~. fifth c
- =, 49, -, '' oioe' III a many
i ~ N"riahce with the civil yet r,
pursued al length, but it is Nazar
'us- 1.-THE right Of a church iuil be
-. -, "Oiai ssAhuarus lief a
i's iiieiiioefs must adhere TO, churcl