The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-15

granted, the parties remarry at once,
Ito those who were. selected before.
!; There is one divorce in every six mar
triages. The average time between mar
riaSe and divorce is ten years. Eleven
( out OF every hundred divorces, the
parties have been married more than
itwenty-one years. Divorces are in.
icreasing three times faster than tha
( population. III the divorce business in
tcreases within the next ten years as
! fast as it has done in the last ten, the
divorces will be equal to the mar.
lriages. We get very much excited
Wien We read Of the polygamy among
the Mormons. but the same thing IS
going on at our very doors and sane
toned by the states and much of it
I is more disgusting and revolving than
polygamy among the Mormons.
Many in our country have forgot
ten that God has said. Thou shalt.
!! not -covet thy neighbours wife" 1t is
true men are coreting their neighbors
houses and lands, but the most ap-4
pallins coVetousness is that men are.
tcoveting their neighbours wives and
the women are coveting their neigh
tbors husbands and they are putting
away tlleir own to get their neigh
tbors'. The question was asked Christ
Can q man put away his wife for
every cause?' Christ said NO. except.
| for adultery" The state may make
legal a great many causes for divorce
but Gods word is above ell human.
statutes and DEGREES of judges The
tNoman- is bound by the law to her
husband, SO long as he iveth If he
be dead. she is loosed from the Law
iof her husband, but if while he lives
le1 -fn+1r
be called an adulteress.'' The same
law applies exactly to The man. Again
Christ said, what therefore God
| hath Joined together, let no man put
}asunder." In the face OF that dec1ara-
ton. there are people suggesting
trial marriages, but every couple that
stands at the marriage altar pledges.
before God and witnesses that
I they will be faithful unto death, as
l3becOmeth good husbands and wives.
Marriage is until death separates. un-
| til death parts. Again we read, BE We
not equally yoked together with un-.
believers. What fellowship hat right
eousness with unrighteousness, or
light with darkness. or q believer
with an infidel?" do not believe. ac-
cording to the teachings OF the Word
| Of God, that a young man who loves
Jesus Christ has any right to marry
a girl who is not Christian. / do not
believe q young lady who loves Jesus
Christ has any right to marry a man
Who does not love her Savior I know
they defy the laws OF God and do it,
ebut II they do SO, they will live to re-
sret it. Some people marry for beauty,
wealth, title, position, and some for.
character, but nothing can stand the
test OF married life but love of Chris
tan character. Whenever the mothers
and the daughters will put up the
standard CT manhood and keep it
| there and demand that every young
man who seeks the hand of a pure
girl in marriage, shall have a pure
and clean record, we will soon see AZ
higher class of manhood. Many n
young fellow craRls out OF the arms
OF lnfamy and wipes his dirty mouth
and seeks to marry pure girl. But
II he wants that kind Of wife, she
has the same light to demand that his
record he kept clean i would rather
see daughter Of mine slain on her
wedding day, with fondest hopes.
than to live with many man / know
who is clever, intelligent. rich. but
With whom she would have q living
death. tortured by his profanity.
drunk nness, licentiousness. and in
fidelity, and vet many a woman ma r.;
lries such a character to reform him.
But where one succeeds in reforming
such a man, a hundred fail . al ay God
save us from the peril Of broken