The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-02
WANTS TO KNOW
WHO SENT THE BOOK
Rev. DR.. Boyle Seeks Oppor-
tunity to Debate Questions
Raised i'm Volume.

'T want to meet that man." said Rev.
w. H. w. Boyle from the pulpit OF the
House of Hope last evening, referring
to some one who had in the course OF
the past week sent him a book on mar
riage and divorce, the title of which he
did not mention.
The challenge was issued just before
the sermon, and DR.. Boyle's manner
was imprcssively earnest as he SAID:
81 have back there a book which was
sent to me last week and wish
knew who sent it. / wish he had IN
closed a card or envelope to tell MS
name, for I want to meet that man.
It is intended as a reply to my sermon
of last Sunday evening, and reply to
the book from which I got my text
for that sermon. Passages in 1t are
underlined in blue pencil and emphasis
is placed upon the idea that marriage
is only a civil contract and the min
lister has nothing to do with 1t; and
the Bible has nothing to do with 1t.
eff the man who sent me that book
is present at the service tonight, l
would like to meet him in the vestry
factory 1 will meet him in the pres
ence Of twelve men. of whom SIX shah
be chosen by him and six by me; or If
that does not please him I will meet
him on the platform. If he has the
courage of his convictions, and those
are his convictions set forth In that
book, I want to meet him, he with his
book and / with mine. The president
Of a society which publishes and dis
seminates such books, only last week
in Chicago proposed to his wife that
she commit suicide with him. and
went in spirit of insult into the
presence of his Cod"
Answers Some Questions.
Also before the sermon DR.. Boyle re-
piled to one of two questions arising
out of his sermon of the previous Sun
day evening which had been sent 10
him in the course Of the week. rms
was: Does absolute scriptural d.
vorce decree that the innocent party
shall not remarry?" In reply he said
that his views on that point had been
expressed in his former sermon when
as one remedy for present conditions ne
suggested that ministers Of the gospel
only be permitted to grant divorce and
only for the cause named in scripture.
He had stated as one OF. the conditions
that the innocent party should be given
a certificate which would permit of
another marriage, He said he did not
believe that a person who had been
sinned against and had been innocent
through it all should be made to suf-
fer by being debarred from marriage II
that marriage would bring with 1t a
blessing. He did believes that for the
benefit and protection of the innocent
party there should be no second mar
10 80 n "a n
1.-two years.
i Thesother question: Should wom-
AN say obey as well as love and cher
| ish' 2" he said would be answered in
the sermon Of this evening, as, it very
properly belonged there.
Discusses Ideal Wife and Mother.
DR.. Boyles subject for last evening
was: 1.-The Queen of the Home
Marks of an Ideal Wife and Mother"
and he took for his text the words:
Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain;
but woman that feareth the Lord,
| she shall be praised"
He gave much Importance to the
| work Of woman in the home and the
influence Of a Christian wife and moth
err In part he said:
Things are always potential at their
| beginnings, and woman was at the be-
ginning of things. If man as the hus-
band and father is the priest Of the
household, woman as wife and mother
is not only the priestess, but thrice
| crowned as queen and sovereign.
eve must remember that woman's
present position is Christianity's gift
| The woman of paganism was the slave
| of mans passion, his servant Aris-
| totle says: Both a woman and a
slave may sometimes be good and
in the writings of the great Brahmin
philosopher we find these words: 1g-
norance and impurity are the jewels
of woman"
Following the ages he quoted prov
cribs to show the evolution of man in
his esteem of woman, pointing out for
example, that the knights of the days
of chivalry who had the saying: "For
woman's honor mans STEEL" were
partly Christianized.
He quoted from William Mckinley
| the words: Men who have a true
love for wife and mother need no bond
for their good behavior"
By way of reply to the second OF
the questions mentioned above, DR.
Boyle said that in his early experience
as minister he had included the word
"obey' in the marriage service, but now
unless otherwise requested 1t Is his
preference to omit it. He believed that
there should be no requirement on one
side that did not pertain to the other
and in many marriages he would in
clude the word obey on the mans
rather than the woman's side of the
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