The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-10-28

divorces and adulterous alliance. st. "e
and quarrels and scam ~ec :1s.
can be witnessed every day and a, 'ekh {
everywhere. Hence children wo4
than iatherless or motherless, without /,
virtue, without religion, given to vice
and crime. Hence the frightful, worse
than pagan corruption OF society.
God and the sacred estate OF mar
riage are left out OF sight in seeking
companion or in company keeping,
which is made an animal amusement.
God is left out OF sight in the solemn
ceremony Of the marriage which is
simply made a protection for the graft
fication OF animal passions, and God
is left out of sight in the family life,
and where God is not, there Satan has
full sway. Man is not mere brute,
but child OF God. an image OF God.
and consequently his love must be noble
and exalted in proportion to his dig
nifty and therefore rational and intcl,i-
gent. The choice which a young man
or young woman makes Of companion
:or life should not Ec made according
to the dictates OF passion but accord
ing to right reason, guided by grace
and in conformity with the ends ior
which matrinony was instituted
The husband is the head OF the fam
c.
says. Let women be subject to their
husbands as to the Lord Because the
husband is head OF the wife as God is
head OF the church. He is the Savior
OF His body. Therefore as the church
is subject to Christ, so also let the
wives be subject to their husbands in
all things Epf. S: 22-27. There is no
degradation in this subsection, but vir-
tue and nobility, for it is according to
right, reason and order Jesus Christ
was subject to Mary and Joseph The
angel appeared to Him and gave COM
inand, and Mary's Jesus obeyed him.
when God instituted matrimony,
He meant that the husband and wife
should raise up children to God ac-
cordirg to the laws which God has
ordained and for the end which God
intended them, viz: to become worthy
citizens Of the ever blessed kingdom OF
God.
THE family cannot be called Chris
tian family in which children grow up
without the knowledge OF religion, with
out prayer, without knowledge OF
means of grace. Some say that it is
better to let them grow tip and chose
religion for themselves You might as
we'll say it is better to let them grow
UP without honesty or purity, i'll order
that they may choose for themselves
whether they will be honest or pure
Religion is not matter of choice.
Religion is commanded by God the
Creator. Our very position as creatures
demand it, and we must have and prac-
tice that religion and faith which Christ
commanded and ordained When chill
dren grow UP without faith and reli-
gious principles, their habits are formed
without religion, not according to the
corrupt instincts of the heart Where
there is no constant ruling OF the pas
sion according to religious principles,
there vanity, pride, ambition, lust and
qualification are the rulers, and it is
easier to follow these than to curb them.
parents are bound to see that their
children do not indulge in sinful, pagan
company keeping. In the first place,
that they do not keep company except
for that one only reason for which it is
lawful. namely with a view to marry,
and hence never before they are of age
to marry, and with no one with whom
they should not marry, considering the
ends for which the sacred state of mat
rimony was instituted In the second
place, that the courtship, when lawful
and between the proper persons, should
be conducted in Christian spirit in all
virtue, not in hidden places and in dark
ness, and till the morning. There is
nothing in Christian courtship that can
not see the light You, parents, are
responsible to God for the Christian
marriage of your children"