Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILToWN iowa JANUARY "a 1914

hygiene in the schools.
People speak very glibly Of all ques-
tions pertaining to marriage and sex.
Divorce Is the root OF the evil. In the
existence of divorce lies the reason
why the United States tonight is the
| most immoral nation in the world bar
| ring only Japan.
What Is the best divorce law
| There is no best. The only cure Is
the Catholic law-one with one. ex-
| clusively and forever. The river of
right life will run smoothly and bear
upon it's bosom all that Is best. Allow
one divorce and soon there will be
| thousands. Divorce Is the principle
| that says there is nothing in the sac
! rament of matrimony that cannot be
broken
Bishop Muldoon cited history to
prove his contention. He urged all
Catholics to interest themselves in the
| subject of divorce and to aid in inn
proving divorce laws, modelling them
as far as possible as the Catholic be-
lief.
DR.. Seippel, who has been one OF the
sex hygiene lecturers in the public
schools, explained to her audience that
the term personal purity" had been
substituted because Of misunder-
standing of the term hygiene.
She urged the necessity of combat
! ing disease with education. She said:
| 'If the next two generations will fol-
low the advice given in the Personal
Purity" lectures, so per cent of the
physicians of this country will have
, to abandon their profession"
Church Advertising..
Advertising for churches and en-
ployment Of publicity managers by
those ministers who need their ser
vices were urged by Rev. Frederick r.
! Hopkins. D. D., pastor of the Park
Manor Congregational Church.
He spoke in favor of the proposed
Go to-Church- Sunday" plan, but said
the movement should not be confined
to one day; it should continue
throughout the year.
What are the reasons for so many
discoura gingly empty churches ask
ed DR.. Hopkins.
Good men and women like to see
big congreg cations. They are proud for
awhile of the drawing power of the
preacher. But they hesitate to give
their approval to the ways and means
OF making good They may toledate
what they characterize as such meth
DDS for 'Go-to- Church Sunday or an
exangelistic campaign of three weeks,
but when it comes to the employment
of similar common sense for whole
year they shiver at the word sensation
alism' and. drawing the rags of stag
nation a little closer about them, go
to sleep.
at is high time church people real
lied that we can not get something Tor
nothing. A theatrical manager paid
out $4,000 for the scenery of play
before he knew whether it would sue
coed CT fall. Several grand opera
stars draw larger salaries in two
weeks than three OF the highest paid
ministers get in a year.
But with piano that has not b.en
tuned for six months or an organ that
has not been repaired in as many
years. with u quartet that once in a
while gets SIS week and oftener only
criticism: in a building that is warm
if the sexton gets UP early enough.
and if it Is cold you must not men,
ton the fact because he is one OF
US with a preacher living from hand
to mouth, harried all week with many
annoyances so that what ideals he
ever had have gone glimmering-can
we wonder that the average minister
welcomes Go to- Church Sunday as q
drowning man would snatch at a
straw
How, under these conditions. can
we expect the church to compete with
the splendid concert hall. the brilliant
theater the eloquent lecturer or even
'novies?' These conditions make
churches dead ones TO use a phrase
of the street
The Churchman, New York, has a
particularly favorable view of the
question:
Even those who are content with
the conventional method Of building
up parochial work will agree with Mr..
Reisners claim that the church has a
right to employ every legitimate meth
cd to push itself into prominence in
the community. 1t must not allow it
SELF he says, to be counted OF no
Importance or to be made insignih-
cant. 1t is the heart, the vital CEN
ter, the fountain head of the best life
of any community. 1t must demon
strate that fact If 1t is to remain
worthy Of the name We notice that
one Of the first examples OF billboard
church advertising comes from the
Anglican Cathedral in Denver. Ac-
cording to Mr. Reisner. bill boards are
very effective method People read
them while waiting for the street cars.
They notice them as they walk by or
drive along, or catch them from the
street car windows. One Of the most
curious publicity developments that
we have noticed in this most up-to-
date volume is the church cook book,
containing recipes written by the diff
ferent members. This it is explained.
has a peculiar value to the member
ship since it interests folk In each
other and furnishes reminders OF in
dividuals in the very food which is
prepared 1t brings forward the name
of the Church at pleasant periods.
Get Out and Walk.
Recently a Council Bluffs woman
called on her old family physician Tor