The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
DR.. Clampett Scores the
Divorce Laws at
Noon Service.

With each succeeding day the noon
the San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce, under the auspices of the
Brotherhood of St. Andrew of the Epis-
copal church, increase in popularity,
as is evidenced by the attendance. The
nature of the addresses and the prom
inence of the speakers has in a meas
ure been responsible for the great in
terest manifested by the business com
nunity and it can be said that the
passion week services this year have
been the most successful since the in
auguration of the custom. There will
be three more of the noon services
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of
Leland Stanford Jr University, speak
ing to-day on Righteous Citizenship in
Public Spirit; General n. P. Chapman,
Supreme Court Commissioner. giving
his views tomorrow on Righteous
Citizenship in the Vote" and the Right
Rev w. P. Nichols. DID, Bishop Of
California, delivering the last address
Of the week Saturday on Righteous
Citizenship in the Church"
! The services yesterday were similar
! 10 the preceding ones and the attend
ance was large. Rev. Frederick w.
Clampett. rector of Trinity Church, had
4 been assigned the subject of Righteous
CitizeAhip in the Home" and delivered
a most forceful and stirring address.
In his opening remarks he said a mod
ern writer had designated as the two
sw eetest words in the English tongue
home" and mother" No matter how
+ robust man may be, no word appealed
( so strongly to him as the one that
brings associations of mother. "Home
/ is the sweetest spot on earth, said the
/ speaker, '-and it should be the treasury
OF man. his wife and family. If a man {
! character is to be tested it should net
be done in the church or the stock ex-
change. but under his own roof, where
he lives day by day. The citizen who
is true in citizenship must be true in
the home"
Dr. Clampett then maintained that
J the churches were not alive to-day as
4 they should be TO the phases of home
! life and cited the lack Of flial respect
and regard in the growing generation
! The subject of divorce received a scath-
I ing rebuke at the hands OF the learned
divine He said:
Il is most serious cons souence that the
church and state in conflict over this
/ question Of marriage and divorce. and still
I greater that the churches in conflict among
I themselves 1 bornd by the canon OF our
/ Episcopal church 10 decline TO mafry the in
/ nocebt party 10 A divorce except where the
/ divorce is granted for infidelity, duly proved
! in court yet those who are sent from my
! door are accepted and married by the minis
] tiers OF tho various Protestant denominations.
! When bear IN mind that divorces are on
the increase. and that in California there is
/ one divorce in every seven marriages, there
/ on the part OF the Protestant churches 10
/ save u from what is at present a fearful
l scandaiys To the Story Of the Roman Catholic
| churchfbe Il said that she stands supreme IN
/ the M intenance Of the sanctity Of the home
and the great sacredness Of the married state.
This matter strikes al the very foundation OF
| true citizenship and the responsibility of the
! church that connives at this awful laxity is
great beyond any possible measurement. DIR.
McKim of Washington termed the present
order Of things progressive BOlygamy," and
! IL aDDears almost satirical to express our
righteous indignation Of the doings Of the Nor
/ mons in their plurality OF wives when IL r.
/ solves itself into the distinction OF having
/ them in bunch or in geometric progression.
DR.. Clampett closed with a tribute to
the sterling qualities of President
Roosevelt and cited him as an example
/ Of the model man in home life.