The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-03
England a Country of Unrest;
Great UpheQvQl Is Predicted

ical cant about the welfare of their
souls in another world, but he had re-
gard to the urgent needs of the human
body. The incident taught that it be-
hooved Christian men and women to
address their efforts to the bodily
we'll being Of their fellow creatures
Christ was at the wedding feast, not
as a priest to dictate or condemn, but
as an honored guest to share its Joy,
and, indeed, to add to it.
God intended joy to be the portion
of the human race" said the preach
er. "Joy was the essential thing that
he intends to found his creed on. This
wedding that Christ was at began
with Joy.
"The origin and end of marriage
was that it should be a joy and a
blessing, not a bondage or a curse.
All humanity longed and languished
for joy, and died without it, .
Joy is the aim and end of life
Never let us try to put off for future
worlds what God intended us to en-
Joy on earth.
God meant marriage to be joy,
and when the marriage contract fails
to realize the end for which it was
made, then I say that in the eyes Of
Christian men by all reason and COM
mon sense and consonance with what
is wise and right. it shoulud be dis
solved. Yet for 1900 years the bishops
Of Christendom have abused their Of
fees, laying upon mankind a yoke
which neither God nor Christ put upon
1t. They have turned blessing into
curse. feeding themselves and not
the people. lording it arogantly over
Christ's heritage. They have emul-
ated the peers in the temporal power
of the realm. They have massed
wealth to themselves while suffering
the people to starve.
"The time has come when the same
rule of common sense should be ap-
applied to other contracts. When 1t
has failed Of its purpose. 1t should be
no longer held valid.
'The object and aim of marriage is
love and mutual help, but by the stu.
pid laws of today when one has left
his or her partner the other is pre-.
vented from making a new marriage
which God and the man and human
necessities require. Joy is to be the
end and aim Of the marriage contract
What Joy can there be for a married
couple without love? There can be nc
strength in the married life or in the
national life without love in it's mem
bers."
News Of an occurrence, which has
been hailed as a miracle among the
simple people of the country side
where it happened, is reported from
Kinvara, in Galway. On the shores OF
Galway bay few days before the
feast Of St. Kieran. shrine of cement
was erected carrying out, it 10 said
the wishes of some girls) above the
rude altar of stone which rises to the
memory Of the saint. Inside the shrine
was placed a sculpture of the Sacred
Heart, the gift of the nuns of Kin
vara. For centuries the people have
visited this altar on the day of st
Kieran.
On Sunday the anniversary of the
day came around. and, as usual. the
people flocked to the shrine. Grear
was their surprise. says a correspond
ent of the Tuam Herald, to see the
three large stones under the shrine
exuding as they thought a red-coloret
moisture, which to their simple mind,
meant and was believed by them t.
be blood. All day on Sunday was tt
be seen the red moisture on the
stones. and hundreds dipped theil
handkerchiefs in it.
There is no spring near the shrine
no trace of iron in the soil, and no wei
or water nearer than the sea. which
10 fifty yards away. On Monday tn,
red marks on the stones were quit,
visible, and a handkerchief rubbed
against the stone was discolored, bu
! the moisture had dried up. But OF