The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-18
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ANOTHER SIDE OF THE DIVORCE
QUESTION.

terest the various accounts given
through the daily papers of the Sun
day morning discourse on divorce de
llvered by the Rev. DR.. D. Scudder in
his own pulpit at the Central Union
church.
This is indeed a vexed question, if
viewed shallowly from the point of
view of mere sentiment or even of
the inductive process alone. Intelli-
gence, as usually understood, is not
the highest authority on any great
question, especially on such questions
as involve such wide and far-reaching
issues as those of marriage and Ill
Vorce. There is an infallible source
OF truth, so says the great Master,
which consists in awakening in ones
sell the latent divinity of his own
being, when he himself becomes
truth, as Jesus said of himself 81 am
the Way the Truth and the Life" IF
any man wills to do Gods will"
Whlch means to become one with
God, "he shall know of the doctrine"
or shall know the Truth. This is usu-
ally referred to as intuition, or the
soul discerning. Here, one is I'm har.
mony with nature; that is, he is on
purely scientific ground and makes
no mistakes. Now, following this
higher, inner reason, we would sug-
gest, first, that we should know
couples were really married
before we decide to separate them,
III all cases, where divorces have
been granted, it is safe to say they
were simply united, but not married
IN the true meaning of this word. 70
be welded means to be welded TO-
sether into one as a blacksmith YIELDS !
two pieces of iron into one piece. !
These twain shall become one
aesh,' This law of welding runs all
through nature from the atom up to
The greatest sun; and from the most
form of life to Diety
Itself Two atoms may be forced into
but unless there is an
affinity between them they repel each
other. The science of chemistry fully
demonstrates this law in chemical
affinity, without which coalescence,
which is real marriage, is impossible. |
This law is as absolute as mathemat-
les. 1t holds good among human be.
ngs as well as in the sphere of chem
stry. In most cases the union of
two parties, in so-called marriage, is
simply the result of passion, which
when gratitied occasions revulsion or
enforcement, though the enforcement
may not have been sanctioned by the
law. Such unions are occasions Of
lust, though sanctioned by law, and
The offsprings of such are conceived
md borne in SIM as the baptismal |
.ites of the churches affirm. Follow
ng the reyulsion of this safety, all |
'omance disappears, and the common
place takes its place. The parties are
10 longer united even upon the plane !!
If passion, until passion is again eN-
'ited, aud sd arrangements occur
When even a trivial discord becomes
nagnified into a mountain and then
ncompatibility becomes manifest.
Shall people then be forced against
heir will, having discovered the in
between them, to con-
inue in this strained, unnatural and
ngodly union? This is the sin Jesus
efers to when he makes it the only
round of enforcement; for in we'd
Ock, so called, as we'll as out of we'd
eek, there may be the very essence
f adultery; and without the sanction
t law, or previous to it, there may be
cal marriage of two souls. There is
law of affinity or polarity between
uman beings as between the magnet
nd iron filings, which we would all Il
ecognize were it not for prejudice !
r false teachings. This it is that 1
wedenborg, the great mystic, called (
Celestial marriage" and the issues
such are Immediately conceived {
nd borne, for they are the product Of
cal divine love and not of lust. h
In the past, when the divorce was [
OF so current, people suffered the I
of hell in forcing themselves /
, abide in the so-called marriage !
tate, and unless it disciplined them {
ito patience and other virtues, it
reduced irreparable evil to the indi-
idual and to the family and to /
Ociety at large. 1t is to break away {
'om .uch intolerable burdens that {
ne divorce has become so common ,
nd seems indeed to be on the in /
rease; and it is right that annul-
'ents should be granted by law
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