St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-11


society of women. 1t was Gods first
gift to Adam, and from the beginning of
the world to the present day the in
f1uence of woman has been almost
omipotent, wonderful influence that
can not be overestimated. After
an eloquent tribute to the char
acter OF the woman, as the
companion of man, he said that it was
owing to the influence of the Catholic
church that she is not to-day the Dauble
and playtling to be put aside that she
was 1000 years ago. The church has
recognized from the beginning that
the protection of society depends
upon the preservation of the mar
riage vow. Around women the
church early drew the magic circle
up it's power for her protection. 81 Mar
rages are divided into three classes
the natural, which occurs among the
untutored outside of civilization; the
civil marriage, which to those who be-
lieve in the sacrament6is a disobedience
to the church, and the religious mar
riage, and it was this latter class
to which the speaker devoted the
greater portion of his attention.
Religious marriages are either Catholic
or mont Catholic, and he confined him
self to the Catholic, 'subdividing such
marriages as the marriage of the good
with the good, the good with the bad,
and the bad with the bad. He described
the holy ceremony of marriage in the
Catholic church, and said that it
united the contracting parties for all
time, the hereafter as we'll as life.
"Those whom God hath joined to-
gether let no man put asunder."
Let no state legislature, no judge,
bishop or pope dare to put asunder
whom God hath united. The woman
with a husband who makes her his
slave, who gives her free taste of
purgatory. who scolds and abuses her,
forgets that she is the daughter of
king, land that king his god and Judge;
that every harsh and unkind word
given ner will be punished. She
may be helpless now, but there
Catholic church allows of only a separa-
ton where the wife cannot live with
the husband because of his abuse, but
no divorce. She is his wife as long as
she lives. 1t is the same as the law of
nature which makes mans father al
WAYS his father. The church has always
opposed the union of the Catholics and
non-Catholics foreSeelng the disaster
that almost neutrality-suspicious. the trials
to the wife whose mosttender and sacred
feelings are trampled upon, and her
obligations to her church interfered
with. 1t is better far that mar
riages should be fully within
the church. Upon the subject
of divorce the speaker dwelt
with great warmth. denouncing it as
the great evil of the age, legalized
adultery, and the separation of husband
from the wife not only, but the mother
from the child-an evil so appall-
ing that it threatens the very sta
biIity of society and is the
greatest danger that threatens
free America. He quoted statistics
showing the terrible increase of ill
vorce, and claimed it was responsible
for similar increase in crimes against
chastity and morality. His peroration
was an eloquent appeal to all men who
love their wives, sisters and daughters
to unite and force the legislature to
wipe out the damnable laws which per-
NIT of this legalized crime against God,
nature and wOmanhood.
Tonight Father McKenna lectures
upon 'Intemperance, the Great Evil of
the Day." when the attendance will be
even larger than last evening, many
Catholic societies attending in body.