The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-01
DIVORCE A SYMPTOM
IT'S Like a Headache, says Rev. Robert
Gordon.

divorce is only a symptom-lfke a
headache declared the Rev. Robert
| Gordon in spea king Sunday night al
the First Baptist church on How to
Be Happy Though Married. 9TH
i root of the evil must be discovered
! Some claim economic conditions are "a
blame: others charge 1t up to the laws
while Bernard Shaw and the Sinclairs
would do away with all restrictions.
Home is still our finest SYNONYM
Of heaven. The great stream of our
domestic life is sweet pure and
wholesome, but there is nothing to be
gained by ignoring the fact that there
are today a great host of men and
women heartbrUken through disap-
pointment in marriage. Think of the
/ record million divorces in the
United States in twenty years-over
100 every working day. And the rate
| is accelerating-
eff the present rate is maintained,
at the close of the century there will
be more marriages annulled by divorce
than BY death. There is no greater
social calamity. there IS no deeper hui
man sorrow than that represented by
thse appalling facts and figures.
ITO my mind our greatest need is
a radical change in our social creed
We must change the popular concep-
ton of the marriage relation and
obligation. A work of education is to
be done and the church, the mother
of all educational agencies, should be
foremost in holding aloft great ideals
as guides and an inspiration to those
seeking the way of life Where there
is no vision the people perish.
1.-The home is the foundation of so
ciety. The church and school, civil
government. libraries and hospitals
home.
"A great many women have little
respect for the opinion of the Apostle
Paul Wives obey your husbands is
H. Ill f7xr5fn he,
fair to Paul we must remember the
times and conditions to which he
spake. Better that Christian wife
obey her heather husband so far as
than to disrupt the family and bring
a. reproach upon Christianity.
''It is to be remembered that Paul
made far higher demands upon the
husband than upon the Wife. 'Hus-
bands love your wives he said even
as Christ loved the church and gave
Himself for it, And in the 18th
chapter of first Corinthians h analyzed
that love without which there can be
no such things a 5 home happiness.
BE patient; true love suffereth long
and is kind. Differences of opinion
over little things break up many
homes. An old couple applied for di-
vorce because they couldn't agree as
judge advised them to cut the yard
in two with a fence and each feed half
of them They went away talking and
smiling. satisfied. Be unse1fisf 1t is
more blessed to give than to receive
Highest happiness comes through
serving others, not In being served.
Control your temper: i'll temper Is the
vice Of the virtuous' And above all
else remember love thfnketh no evil
Suspicion shrivels the soul and abso-
lutely destroys family peace. Faith
alone begts faith.
You did not marry for fun. Some
no doubt ought to secure divorce but
they are towards who seek dissolu-
tion of the holy bonds of matrimony
simply because home life does not
flow on like a song. The sweetest hap
piness this worlG knov.4 IS the expert
ence Of those who suffer for the sake
of others. .
Rev. Mr.. Gordon will speak next
Law in the Home