Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-11

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in book form ard in periodical and in
the morning newspaper. The pestifer-
Gus trash which every day and every
week and every month, like a winter
blizzard is flung into our faces by the
snowstorm of the printing press is
enough to destroy the healthy heart
throbs of any young person who is al
lowed to read it. | am. of course. not
speaking against good publications,
but bad publications. Go to almost
any bookstand that you see and open
some of the books at random and read.
There we find the authors make their
heroes out of bad men and their hero
ines out of bad women, with here and
there a redeeming white spot to offset
these black characters. Broken mar
riage vows, "Childe Harold indecen-
cies, deceitful wives. deceiving men
these move as an ever changing kalei-
doscope before the fascinated eyes of
the young readers. There the boy and
the girl learn to call crime respectable
and a mans dishonor free lance of
gold" A bad book worms its way into
heart The way for good people to keep
pure and to prepare themselves for
Christian marriage, which will never
be broken this side or on the other
side of the grave, is for them to live
with good people. They must work to
make men good. They must positively
refuse to associate with the bad,
hod &c in or
in real life. When the newspapers of
the United States made heroes out of
the Chicago bandits. they placed a
premium on crime. When bad book
eulogizes and glorifies the broken mar
riage ring. it is only gliding the open
door of the divorce court, which is the
suillotine of marital love.
When Divorce Is Justified.
But some one asks me, in closing:
Are divorces always wrong? Should
a husband and wife be compelled to
live together under all conditioner
Oh. no. The violation of the marriage
VOW justinas divorce. Christs own
words imply that. There are other
conditions which justify separation.
even when there has been no violation
of that VOW. 1t would be a grievous
injustice to enforce constant compan-
ionship when one of the parties to a
marriage has contracted habits which
render the continued relation an intOl-
cradle misery to the other. l have
known such cases and have rejoiced
that the law permits the innocent party
to be relieved of the burden and af-
fords protection from molestation. 1t
is not for me to say when a stage has
been reached which demands the in
PREVENTION of the law, but | do contend
that it is menace to the morals Of
the people when a contract so solemn
| and sacred as that of marriage can be
broken on preteXts so frivolous as those
now recognized in many states. | pro-
test also against the diversity of the
divorce laws of the different states,
| which tends to confusion and uncer-
tainty in the relation so vital as this
to the morality and stability of society.
My belief in reference to divorce can
| be summed up in the words of Sir
| Walter Scott in the case of Ecand YER
>, % i
| the repugnance of the law to dissolve
| the obligations of matrimonial cohabi-
| tation may operate with great severity
upon individuals, yet it must be care
| fully remembered that the general hap
piness of the married life is secured
| by it's indissolubility." My belief is
summed up in the thought that the
more people realize when they marry
that they must marry for life the more
! future generations will be careful how
they marry and the more the sanctity
of the home will be preserved. There
fore, my friends, suffer almost every
injustice for your children's sake, for
the community's sake, for Gods sake,
rather than break the nuptial bonds.
In this discussion l have presented
for the most part, only the temporal
side of the divorce question. If l had
spoken from the spiritual side the re-
suit would have been self evident Cos
! pei love never gave birth to legal hate.
May the Christ who uttered the pro-
test of the text against promiscuous
! divorce bless the earnest words of one
whom God has greatly blessed with a
/ happy home.
copyright. 1904, by Louis Klopsch.l
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