The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-08-10

come ont equal So it is in all business partner
sbins The law so sanctions But In marriage this
aona1itv. when marriage is dissolved. cannot be rr
served since q woman who loses her virgiuity is
ALWAYS the greater sufferer in the eyes of the pub
lie. Therefore it is unjust because it works in fa
vor of the strong and against the weak 1t Is not
only unjust but it is also unreasonable, for if there
should be a limit as to time in the minds OF either
tbe other party. not knowing of this limit could
not consistently enter such a contract. Unforru-
nately many young girls learn when too late that
the words "unti death do us part" uttered by their
wonld-be lovers were rather the expression of a
deceiver.
The hope of separation leads to sin and DESTROYS
the mutual confidence of husband and wife. If IL
husband or wife should transfer their love to am
other and wish to marry this other person. the first
step is to secure divorce. To secure legal sep
aration there must be violation Of some statute
for which divorces are granted. This they do To-
secure their end. and the divorce, which should be-
q punishment for the violation of the law, comes
as a reward.
It destroys the mutual love upon which the mar
rage contract rests it destroys that natural tie of
affection which forms the bond of undivided hearts
The married couple are not two bu; one. Possible
separation destroys this unity, it does the mu-
tual love upon which it rests. How can woman
love man who loves her only as long as she pos
sesses charms for him, or who may transfer his
love to another within a year, month, or a week,
and after transferring his love obtain legal sep
aration from her he promised to love till death
Therefore it is that divorce with the privilege of
remarrying destroys that mutual love which is the
basis of the marriage contract.
Tell the happest couple that ever lived that they
can lawfully, even from religious standpoint, sep
arate and marry again. and their mutual confidence
is weakened, and they become prey t. suspicious
and jealousies. Trivial faults are magnifed. A
husband will expect his wife to be faultless, and
the wife will look for the same perfection in her
husband. But as perfection is something that hu-
mainly has never yet attained, the unhappy couple
looking for it and not finding it will often agree
to separate and try their luck in another union.
The offspring cry out against it and decry the
separation of their parents The law of nature has
designed the father and mother to care for and
educate their children, and as children are much
longer helpless and in need of parental care than
any other offspring, then nature silently but forc-
bly, tells the parents that they must not separate
raising of their children. What reason sanctions
the tradition of twenty centuries affirms
st. Augustine treating of marriage wrote "that
the point of this sacrament without doubt, is that
the man and the woman united in marriage, as long
as they live, must persevere inseparaby."
st. Chrysostom, commenting on the words of
Genesis, Wherefore man shall leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall
be two in fesh said, Gas therefore it is wicked
to cut up the flesh, so also it is nquitous to sep
arate the wife from her husband"
What reason teaches, tradition sanctions, and
the testimony of the Fathers of the church con-
firms, the Holy Scriptures indorse ST. Mark. <.
HIP, uses this very strong language: 'Whosoerer
shall put away his wife and marry another com
mitteth adultery against her. And if the wife shall
put away her husband, and be married to another.
she committeth adultery" St. Paul. writing to the
Corinthians VIII 1O-11 directed their attention TO
he indissoluble union between husband and wife.
But to them that married, not | but the Lord
that the wife depart not from her hus-
'and. And If she depart that she remain unmar-
led, or be reconcied to her husband. and let not
he husband put away his wife"
The oldest law regulating marriage dates back
% Paradise. 1t is a divine law. wherefore man
hall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to
lis wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. SbonId
PARENTS abandon their children, or the child dis
wn the parents, it does not sever the relationship
which, by ties Of blood and consequently BY the
cry laws of nature, cannot be broken or nr1l;Aed
But the relationship between husband and wife are
I'LL Closer because man is commanded to leave
ather and mother and cleave to his wife Com
lenting on these words Christ said: 'sVbot God
ath Joined together let no man put asunder.n For
IL these reasons the Catholic church has defined
hat when valid marriage exists in no instance
an the bond be broken so that the parties conId
emarry. If the world looked upon MARRIAGE IN
mis- sense, and entered it with the conviction that
othing but death could break the bond. then thor
ould be more happiness in the social order mar
lagos would be more fruitful the moral law ,vo,,15
faithfully 0heerved =