Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-04-11
Rev. Father Kane On The Divorce
Evil.
From the Frederick Citizen.

From the Frederick Citizen.
The Rector of Saint Johns Catholic
Church, on East Second street, this city,
on Sunday last, March 30th. in the course
of his sermon on the sixth precept of the
church, demonstrated the sad condition of
the divorce court in this county and the
country at large. The sermon was care
fully prepared and he then announced the
figures, showing one divorce application
to every seven license applications in our
clerks office, being the worst statistics of
any place in the United States.
He stated that marriage was most
ancient institution and sacred contract
and ordained anu witnessed by God in the
Garden of Eden. and is the uniting for life
of one man and one woman. He then
traced marriage from its beginning on
down through the years and down to the
time when men deviated from the path of
righteousness and began to practice polyg-
amy. Christ then came as social and
moral reformer and re-established mari.
age as it was founded in the Garden of
Paradise. Beside the marriage contract all
other contracts fail. The marriage con-
tract is indissoluble.
The greatest stigma of the American
nation today is the divorce evil and &C.
cording to statistics the United States now
stands in sorrowful contrast with the other
Christian nations. 1t is sad spectacle that
our Legislatures are composed of profess
ing Christians who engage in the making
of laws permitting divorce.
The rector then stated that it was high
time that the moralist found throughout
the country fighting the liquor traffic and
political corruption should attack divorce.
Up to this time, he stated that they had
been blind to this most unspeakable evil.
In permitting divorce this county and this
country stand in open defiance to the will
of God, said the speaker
Father Kane then stated that one reason
why divorce is so frequently applied for is
because of the haste in couples marrying.
They fail to consider the responsibilities
and the obligations of married life. Many
women who enter the married state are in
utter Ignorance of its responsibilities, such
as domestic science, management of house
holds, etc. Another reason. he said, why
there is such frequency Of applications
for divorces is also found in couples living
beyond their incomes. If man is making
from $12 to SIS per week. too often his
family wants to live on plane of the man
making $40 or $50.
In selecting a husband young woman
should be careful to investigate his char
acteristics, disposition. etc. If he is con-
stitutionaly lazy or addicted to intemper
ance in drink. she should not think that
she will be able to correct and reform him,
for she will not be able to do it. Those
contemplating matrimony should take time
and consider their prospective mates as
one considers business partner.
He closed by saying that the Church has
always stood for the indissolubility of the
marriage contract and its sacredness. There
are a number of thinkers throughout the
entire country who are now considering
with alarm the growth of divorce, as it
strikes at the very fountain source Of
society in the family