The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-10
BY Rev.
Frank l..
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ksss urges upon the converts Pbalen
Esaas@SaszsA to the religion of Jesus the i'm L-l
Dorance Of sincerity and purity i'll thought and conduct lie
makes plea for he unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
In the Bible and the classics used symbol of
corruption and bread symbol OF life Uneavned bread IN
Pau thought stands for freshness purity sincerity and truth
the Gospe Jesus his disciples against the contagious
blight of the leaven of the Pha risees.
There are many voices every generation which declare
that men should truth nd sell not Mans CHIEF end,
they saw to intellectual reality To know the truth
1t sometimes who ponders the great ques-
tons of and duty that there be danger OF laying too
great an emphasis upon intellectual perception OF TRUTH
One NAV like Lord Bacon KIN almost everything in the cir
Gle Of knowledge and yet be- he contemplate and
base sychophant
easbv less precious goodness and love- 1t does not
follow that has creed in philosophy or
theology politics that you depend upon his honor or be
sure that lie steal There is unbndged guilt be-
tween the and the heart Perhaps ought not to be So
But it is SO.
Society is in league with tn god of lies in many of
toms and in some of Our The whip OF convention
al opinion drives many and and woman to lie OF
constant hypocrisy Behind smiling face and the courteous
manner there aoned science and sad and rebeouS
soul.
How MANY young men allow themselves to become part
e in deeds or courses of duct against which their man
hood rises up wrath They are not strong enough or Da
enough to endure the laugh the which would greet
them if they wholly true to their highest ideals
How many families raining and stretching like oxen
in woke to oyertae the fam of wealth and distinction just
little higher the social plan than they happen to bel Dress
and social duties often usup the place the home
and the church duties No time strength lett tor them
The husband distracted with the expenses OF this struggle
for recognition and position and the wife torn with Suspicion
and anxe Irritation and reign in the home and there
is small supply of "uneavened bread in that household
The subject divorce just and rightly attracting Sc
rou sustained attention in this country Many theorleS
of the cause the this social maady are advanced by
heoogans philosophers and socoogsts In many cases TINS
problem ignored superficial lily treated Society either shuts
its eyes or hints that silence is the wise course
would be presumpuous hint that we see the way
out of this domestic wilderness from which proceed walls and
woes as terrible Dante heard in the Inferno
It NAV not be rash howev err declare that if much
wise foresight given the marriage OF the race as is CIV
the breeding of dogs and horses the divorce courts would
find less business
AS it is now society," while offering opportunity for the
ideal marriage is yet outwardy opposed consideration or
training those truths and tments which make the ideal
marriage possible The unda mental laws OF lie which deter
mine the physical moral do mestc life of the hidden
from the youth the land under the sophstca and hypocrt
ca guise Of modesty purtyl As the whole nature Of man
body and souere not dvne Ye are the temple OF od ana
the Spirit of God dweleth in YOU"
The wonder is as we society, not that there
so many difficulties but that there SO few The
remedy for the divorce maady lies in light not in ecces
stca or civil interference Society especially sensitive and
eudh the discussion of things vital to mans physical and
moral welfare These truths m ust kept from the public but
in secret we might possibly discover ndecency holding its or
giles.
"he unleavened bread of sincerity and truth very de,
sabe ingredient domestic and social life This is not SAID
exaggeae the evils of the hour but to urge more simplicity
and naaness anknes and reasonabeness in the treat
of the physical and moral problems which enter INTO the
marriage relation.
Much of what is called mar rage should be called by another
name whom God joins should not be separated by man.
those whom he Joins virtually separated held III
an unnatural relation by the pc wer of society.
If could somehow ctice more sincerity and more
truth libraries thinking, but in our train
ing young and eament OF the sacred institution
of marriage should be entered into under the inn
pulse of sentiment the result of selfish or COM
erca reasons how many and what burden OF suf
erng would lifted only from the lives of dheaened
and disappointed women but also from the tender and
innocent lives of little children.
The church and the college, less than the home ought
to treat marriage only from the point of view OF religion
but also from point OF view of biology and selfeazaton
Until done the uneaven ed bread of sincerity and truth
will find no welcome The Am erican divorce will remain
standing symptom of hidden malady which is making ugly
ravages upon physical and oral life of the republic.
Many marriages do ubt made in heaven 1t high
time earthly side of tn matter received serious
attention.