The Republican journal., 1911-08-17
The Divorce Evil.

To THE EDITOR OF The JOURNAL:
Please let it be said in your paper that,
all things considered, our world, with all
its manifest wickedness, is better this
August, 1911, than ever before. 1t is
true there is much wickedness in both
high and low grades of mankind, and
there are great combinations whose only
aim seems to be to mlslead and drag
down the rest of humanity to low level
with themselves; but at the same time
there are other powerful combinations
whose aim, under God, is to educate en-
tighten, protect, make better, lift higher
and make happier every race and class
of people under Heaven; and as all evil
under cover of darkness, must be over
come, and is being overcome by the on
ward march of good works, the world
must be growing better.
Right here the writer desires to ex-
press his views in regard to one of the
greatest evils which afflicts mankind,
and stubbornly antagonizes all the good
manifested anywhere among any people.
Such evils are apparent everywhere on
the earth, in the unfortunate homes of
the people, where wickedness and worse
than white and bubonic plaques are born
and bred and later on sent out to multi
ply the destructive agencies everywhere
Astounding on the earth's surface. Such
evils, like sticks Of dynamite, cause de-
structive activities. Now the question
with many perhaps is, can such evils be
overcome with good? God says that is
the way to do it.
The courts are criticised for granting
so many divorces, but the courts do only
what Moses under God did, grant d.
vorces because of the wickedness of the
people. AS Christians we must not seek
divorce except for certain cause nam
ed by our Lord But to cure the divorce
evil let the causes of the evil be elimi-
mated as much as possible. This can be
done, the writer thinks, by restricting
unfortunate marriages. Todo this more
effectively let there be in every city or
town an influential and forceful organi-
cation to guard against all social and
especially all domestic pest holes, just
as the sources and causes of disease and
deadly epidemics are sought out and
eliminated. Let such numerically strong
influential unions secure wholesome laws
for the prevention of over-hasty scram-
bling for the marital companionship of
persons so untitled for each others hap
piness, and receive the blessings to the
world which ought to follow.
If need be let training schools be es-
tablished where couples intending mar
riage must first be fitted for the duties
attached to married life, such as good
housekeeping, sewing, cooking, econ
omy, industry, mutual attention to home
life and its duties, and butting against
all interlopers whose aim is to destroy,
TO tear down, and not to build up. Let a
vigilant peace making committee follow
up all domestic troubles and bring in
harmony or the unyielding pestiferous
ones dealt with in way that will be
likely to work for his or her home happi-
ness and very. likely the happiness of
both. God would bless such efforts for
good, and divorces would cease to multi
ply, and domestic harmony would show
the uplift of all social and domestic rela-
tons.
It will be argued that we cannot med
die with family relations. Why not?
We NEEDLE with the relations existing
between man and his horse. Is the
animal of more Importance than the
human race and its propagation? The
homes of the people are where good and
bad seeds are sown. The good homes
are an uplift and the bad homes pull
downward with destructive persistency,
and everywhere society suffers from the
badly born and the badly bred. Then let
such destructive activities be made as
few and far between as God and His
army of earthly helpers can make ap-
parent. Such work is for the deliver
ance of humanity from both physical and
moral corruption.
Physical disease causes much suffer-
ing and tremendous financial outlay.
Moral diseases cause much more suffer-
ing and financial output criminal insti-
buttons, asylums, charity homes, expen-
sive legal trials, lawyers, police and
detective, feet far reaching, widespread
and interspread infelcity and wretched-
ness-all tremendous effects of the first
causes, which miserable effects might
be averted if the first damnable causes
were vigorously looked after as they
ought to be, and no doubt will be as we
move up the incline of human progress,
and the light from Heaven shines bright
er and brighter farther along toward the
more perfect and much happier years
that are swiftly coming on, while ''day
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