Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-18
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REV. DR.. TALMAGE. 5
HIS SUNDAY SERMON IN THE METROPOLITAN PUL-
PIT.



thirty-threc divorces. II you want TO
know how easy it is You have only to
look over the records Of the States. In
the city Of san Francisco three hun
dred and thirty-three divorces in one
year. and in twenty years in New Eng
land twenty thousand. is that not
easy enough?
III the same ratio c0ntinue-the ratio
of multiplied causes OF divorce-we
are not far from the time when our
courts viii have 20 set apart whole
DAYS Tor application. and all you viii
have 70 prove against man viii be
that he left his newspaper in the mid
die OF the floor. AID all YOU will have
20 prove against a woman Will be that
her husbands Overcoat is buttonless.
Causes Of divorce double in a few years
-d0ubledin France, doubled in Eng
land. and doubled in the United States
To show how very easy IL is, have 10
tell YOU that in Western Reserve, Ohio
the proportion Of divorces to marriages
celebrated is one TO eleven; in Rhode
Island is one to thirteen; in Vermont
one 10 fourteen. Is that not easy
enough?
> want You 20 notice that frequency
OF divorce always goes along with the
disoluteness Of society. Rome for five
hundred years had
NOT ONE CASE or DIVORCE.
Those were her days Of glory and
virtue Then the reign of vice began,
and divorce became epidemic. If You
want TO know how rapidly the Empire
went down. ask GibbOn.
What we want in this country and
IN all lands is that divorce be made
more and more difficult Then people
before they enter that relation Will be
persuaded that there will probably be
no escape from it except through the
door of the sepulchro. Then they Will
pause onithe verge of that relation un-
iii they are fully satisfied that it is
best. and that il is right. and that it is
hapDiest. Then We shall have no
more marriages in fun. Then men and
women Will not enter the relation with
the idea it is only a trial trip, and II
they do not like il they can get out at
the first landing Then this whole
question viii be taken out OF the friy-
olous into the tremendous, and there
viii be no more joking about the bios
SONS I'm q brides hair than about the
cypress ON coffin.
What we want is that the Congress
Of the United States change the ma
tiOnal Constitution so that a law can
be passed which shall be uniform all
over the country. and what shall be
right In one State shall be right In all
the States. and what is wrong in one
State viii be wrong in all the States.
How is 10 now? If party in the
marriage relation gets dissatisfied. 1t
is only necessary TO move 10 another
State TO achieve liberation from the
domestic tie. and divorce is effected so
easy that the first one party knows OF
it is by seeing i'm the newspaper that
Rev. Dir. Somebody, on March II, 1880,
introduced in new marriage relation
a member Of the household who went
or on q pleasure excursion 10 Newport
or a buiness
EXCURSION TO CHICAGO.
Married at the brides house. No cards.
There are States of the Union which
practically put q premium upon the
disintegration OF the marriage rela-
ton. while there are other States, like
our own New York State, that had FOR
q long time the pre-eminent idlocy OF
making marriage lawful at twelve and
! fourteen years of age.
The Congress of the United States
needs to move Tor q change Of the Ma
/ uoral Constitution. and then TO aD-
point a committeeman made up OF
! single gentlemen. but OF men Of fam
/ lilies. and their families in Washington
! d.
| righteous. comprehensive. uniform law
| that viii control everything from San
, dy Hook to the Golden Horn. That
viii put an end to brokerases IN mar
riages That viii send divorce law
yers into a decent business. That will
] set people agitated for many years on
[ the question of how shall they get
away from each other to planning how
/ they can adjust themselves TO the more
or less unfavorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an es-
| tOppel to great extent upon marriage
/ as a financial speculation. There are
men Who go into the relation just as
/ they 30 into Wall Street TO purchase
| shares. The female TO be invited into
/ the partnership of wedlOCk is utterly
mattractive. and in disposition sup
pressed Vesuyius. Everybody knows
/ IT. but this masculine candidate for
matrimonial orders. through the COM
mercial agency or through the county
records. finds out how much estate is
| 90 be inherited, and ne calculates it.
lie thinks out how long 1t will be be-
fore
THE OLD MAN WILL DIE,
and whether he can stand the refrac-
! tory temper until he does die, and then
| ne enters the relation; Tor he says: If
| / cannot stand it, then through the di-
vorce law I'll back cut That process
/ is going on an Che time, and men enter
the relation without any moral prin-
ciple. without any affection, and it is as
much a matter of stock speculation as
anything that transpired yesterday in
| Union Pacific. Illinois Central or Della
ware and Lackawanna.
Now. suppose a man understood, as
/ he ought to understand, that If he goes
| into that relation there is no POSSIBLE
/ it- Of his getting out, or no probability,
/ he would be more SLOW TO put his neck
/ i'm the yoke. He would say to himself;
/ Rather than Caribbean whlrlwlnd
( with a whole fleet OF shipping in its
arms. give me zephyr of fields of sun
! shine and gardens of peace.
Rigorous divorce law viii also hinder
women from the fatal mistake Of mar
rving men to reform them. II young
man of twenty-five years Of age or
thirty years OF age has the habit OF
strong drink fixed on him, he is as GER
tainly bound for a drunkard's grave as
that q train starting out from Grand