Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-19
CONDEMN MRS. PARSUNS
MINIsTERs RAISE A STORM Oh
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telegram from New York says that Mrs.
Herbert Clews Parsons' book ON trial mar
! riaSs has aroused storm Of discussion.
Trial marriage was condemned from many
pulpits in Greater New York yesterday.
| Several ministers devoted their sermon
mainly to the doctrines set forth In Mrs..
| Herbert Parsons book, The Family
| while others made their attack the prelude
TO the regular sermon. =
Tho Rev. DR.. Morgan DIE. az Trinity
Church. In the morning delivered an ar
raignment Of those who would seek ia
break down the Christian homo"
We are constantly hearing" he said.
from the extreme radicals. who are push
Ing their schemes OF social revolution. And
| II Is hard to say what IN the worst of the
changes they would make In our social
| relations. But probably the worst form of
their radicalism Is that about marriage.
They would abolish marriage with all its
ties. break up the home or provide form
OF home not worthy Of that name; they
| would have all marriage cease and the chill
dren|f there be any children from the
strange forms Of union which they propose
the children. I say. shall belong. not to
the animals which produce them. but to the
state, which must have citizens II 1t is to
continue, to be raised and used for its own
purposes. This Is not the only scheme OF
this book. which Is given a wide circulation.
but 1t Is the worst Of q series OF social
views promulgated by a set Of people who
are anarchists not interfered with by the
police"
Would Destroy Home Life.
It was a monstrous thought, DIR. Dix
said, that human beings should desire not
to bring children into the world. He spoke
of that vast and growing scandal. the ma
tional disgrace and debauch. or divorce
laws" and gave statistics which showed
that IN IA Ia af ufv had hao
10000 divorces among $4,000. 900 Americans,
and only 214.OO0 divorces among the $780,.
100000 Europeans. -.-,.
IF the Christian marriage goes" he said,
ut follows that the home goes. and IL the
home goes 1t Is a necessity that the state
goes. and II the state goes, all social order
goes, and with the going of social order
goes the right to acquire property and enjoy
1t, and make honestly all that can be made
by honest toll and honest effort.
IF social order goes, all security goes,
and there will be safety for neither property
nor life. Do you think that5s going to be7
Do you think God will allow such a re-
versal Of the tide Of Christian progress? In
stead of that we ought to look for further
advance, we should expect further progress
along the lines of His grand plan, and We
cannot believe that we are going back to
the savage and the brutal. The Lord Is
right and to their duty: and he will not
allow all that has been gained by society
to be lost And we have one duty to per-
form. In our prayers we must bear up to
the throne of grace the supplication to pre-
serve the commonwealth, the church. the
home, the child
Wants Divorce Extended.
At the Church Of the Epiphany last night
the Rev. Madison C. Peters said he believed
in extending the grounds for divorce as
to include, among other things. drunken
| ness. THE drunkard's WIFE" he said, "is
chained with no hope Of release save that
which the grave may bring to one or the
other or BOTH"
Divorced persons who remarry, he said.
should not be put under the redhot
anathema of the church