The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-20

but the thing that has not changed Is
the union of one man to one woman
until death do them part. This divine
arrangement Is not Il civil marriage. il
is not a commercial transaction In any
sense Of the word"
GODS ETERNAL LAW.
"The eternal law of God Is that the
man Is the head of the household and
not the woman. ] know this Is not II
popular thing to say at this time but
H. is Gods eternal law. This does not
mean that the man Is superior. Head
ship Is not superiority. The president
of the United States is the head of the
government. but he is not always the
most superior man in the country.
There cannot be two heads to the FAM
ily for two-headed thing Is u mon
strosity,whether Ii be q two-headed calf
or u two headed family. Somewhere there
must he authority. In q two-headed
family. you have two families growing
farther and farther apart as the years
go by and the head of each struggling
for supremacy.
"St Paul was Il wise man. He said.
Husbands. love your wives: wives,
obey your husband / have u word OF
practical advice to women. Never
marry a man unless you respect him
enough to acknowledge him as the
head. Don't marry him because he
dances we'll and gives you flowers and
takes you to the opera. Don't marry
him to reform him. Don't marry him
unless you can look up to him"
lie referred eloquently to the great
sacrifice a woman makes when she
gives herself to man in marriage and
sinks her identity in his, and told the
men to bring home to themselves a re-
alization OF this more forcibly than
they do. He passed from this to a con-
Sideration of the trivial reasons for
which divorces are granted in many
states, and resuning the thread of his
discourse, said Marriage is Gods
holy estate. 1t is his law that one man
and one woman be bound together for
life. This is the divine law, and whcr-
ever it is violated the effect is per-
nicious to the family. pernicious to
society, pernicious to the church and
pernicious to the state.
SALOON AN ENEMY.
''rhe saloon is another enemy of the
home. When read in the newspapers
that the saloon is the poor mans club,
/ wonder where the poor woman's club
is. indict the saloon because it Is the
poor mans club and draws him from
the home where he ought to be.
"A certain false and new conception
OF the place of women in society is an
other enemy. The old notion was that
woman was made for man and every
thing was keyed to that point of view,
and when the higher education was
broached it was asked. would it make
her a better wife. Against the idea
that education is merely to make
woman a higher servant or parlor orna-
ment for man, 1 cannot inveigh too
strongly. The idea of education is to
make better woman, and the better
woman she is the better wife and
mother she will be.
THE highest duty a woman can be
called TO is the married estate. but she
should not be educated for that end
any more than man should be edu-
Gated to become Il husband, and that is
the highest office he can be called to
fill. Woman makes a mistake when she
takes man as the standard and tries to
do everything he does. Man is not the
standard for woman. and the womnn
who tries to initiate him is leaving the
higher for the lower service
Referring to the necessity for women
being compelled to enter the arena of
life to earn their living, DR.. Abbott
said:
CONDITIONS WRONG.
II do not like the industrial condi-
tions that puts children to work in the
mines and compels women to earn
their own living. Man ought to be able