Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-09-10
FALSE STANDARDS.
CIVILIZATION rs NOT IN HARMONY
WITH DIVINE PLANS.
Normal Family Groups Are N~~-S-
sary 90 Healthy Comm unfttes-sn-
pedimelts Placed In the Path OF
Matrfmony.
Especial cOrrespondencel

Matrimony.
Especial Correspondence
Harper's Weekly gives very interest
ing data about the difficulties that
modern civilization places I'm the way
Of matrimony. II seems that the gen
eral advice TO young men in the United
states Is not 10 marry on less than $40
per week and To abstain IL his earn
ings are up To about So. IL above SIS.
they must not think OF matrimOny un-
I'll their incomes have mounted 10 the
figure Of about $4,000. when they may
marry. provided they are not inclined
10 live eXtravagant lives. when they
must have not less than $4,000 From
Germany we have also good data
on the subject The emperor there
forbids the officers OF the army To- mar
~ unless their salaries are over 500
and advises them not TO do il unless
Sheir salaries are SLIPS and they can
count. besides. on a private income OF
$40. To that Harper's Weekly adds
that i'm the United States army and
navy the hcutcnautS need all their sal
AIRY for their personal expenses and
can only afford To marry rich women.
Almost every thinking man and wO-
man has for Years noticed that the
matrimonial problem is getting more
complex than ever for all classes ex-
cept FOR the very poor ana the very
rich. just thC two social standards that
natural civilization would not devel
or HUt Who thinlsS of anything nat.
urs'l applied L. the general relations OF
men: And 10y the natural we mean
the divine. the cod ordained facts in
crc:t on. in that visible universe OF
~ rich man * simply the complement
'7ry elem 'Hi ara without whom 1t
.--.,l ouls bc conclomeration of
forces and for'as beautiful enough in
ihcnSeiN, e. Lat .ckin. the SDontane-
'--s touch of created consciousness
hlt created c.. ,cinuSa, -. mau. comes
f' 60 finish in accordance with Il Ger
t.iu divine plan. That must rccrs>s-
iiiN mean a close cooperation he-
tween The created consciousness of
i-..u on groups ana the uncrcatcd one
e.. ed - that we may stand perfect
and complete in an the will OF God"
9s -. Paul said. Perhaps not even
-. Paul cIu-ht the tranScendent
meaning 90 that sublime sentence. I'm
the chapter which commences 10y say
inS. Masters. -ivc unto your servants
that which Is iuSt and equal. knowing
that ~ also have a Master In heaven
IL - but We ourselves. the powerful
CLASSES OF powerful nations. that can
fully understand the elements OF social
truth IL We want TO- but we don't seem
to care about il. Social truth. social
HsH|a IL ~
tice. social equality. social common
Scuse-do We hy.r anything OF these
preached anywhere: Yes. occasionally
i'm the reform and labor press. where
the eyes OF the powerful never see lit
90 descend and where not even the
weak and oppressed 20 very frequent
ly. ON the other hand, the organs that
have the eye and the ear of all classes
all sing Yet the old song Of each one
looking out for his own salvation or
Tor some trying To save somebody else
before they have saved themselves.
Il i We. the plural, the class. the
community, the party, the church. the
nation; We. the organization, that has
To be perfect and complete in all the
Will Of God. in all the functions of hu-
I
trial qualifications OF our own natural
existence he spiritual is nowhere
outside OF the natural and the physical
and the tangible outside Of forces and
forms working out certain results. eff
fects springing up from causes. and
all the latter radiating from duties full
filled Or duties neglected.
The very word duty implies organiza-
ton among men, certain social princi-
pies with them. Shall they be prin-
/ ciples OF justice or OF injustice. of
brotherhood or of banditism? There is
/ nothing between the two sets and
hence any mixture Of the two is es-
sehIially wrong. satanic. No set OF
men, no nation, has ever been able to
do anything worse than mix the two
sets and produce a wretched combina-
ton. Why then preach and exhort
men 10 continue the same miserable
idiouc old job, by which we simply
perpetuate our own mean incomplete
ness. personal and collective. the for
mer because Of the latterS Why should
the wise and the good, the Oppressors
try 10 save the ignorant, the wicked.
the oppressed, before the wise and the
good have learned how to save them
selves from the sins. wrongs and di-
abolisms Of their own dear and cruel
civilization. Of our own heather and
rotten progress? Is there any sense in
that, any logic, any Christianity. any
godlike conceptions!
The least that any advancing civ
lllZation ought 10 do, if we can prove
that our advance is not toward some
abysmal cataclysD. is TO show that we
make il possible and easy for men in
all classes TO evolve healthy family
groups with as few complications as
possible We are doing just the re-
verse, particularly with those classes
less tempted by the abnormalities of
great poverty or great wealth. And
where shall we get sound citizens Il
not obtained from normal family
groupst Even the great autocrat of
the German empire sees the fatal dan
ger OF modern prOgreSs--the fact that
we only give 10 most men much less
than what is needed for healthy do
nestle development. And If even re-
publicS do what empires do, and do il
with Il vengeance as seems to be the
case with us. then what does that
proveE That even republics discard
the Righteousness of the Heavenly
Father Woe TO them il they do not
turn Il Few leaf before il Is too lateI
JOSE GROS.
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