South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-18

From close contact with humans at critical moments
in their lives ministers of the gospel and counseors
should be best able form worthy opinion
upon the subject Of divorce and the thereof
DR.. J. N Greene Of the First NJ. e church calls its
prevalence the symptoms Of deep-seated disease.
THE deepest element Of tragedy" DR.. Greene
clares Gin the prevalent divorce evil is the compla
cency with which the evil commonly viewed. That
not shocked and aroused by the prevalence Of
the evil either fail the
moral and social effects Of the evil, else so
bunted sensibilities have concern
for those effects divorce is merely a surface
symptom of a deeper-seated disease The disease is
the wreckage OF home the most sacred institution
outside of heaven That wreckage involves the de-
struction of domestic felicity and marital affection
which essential a stable righteous society
In the last analysis the divorce question becomes
question of affection honor between a and a
Where affection and honor maintained
there divorce. Where these
absent divorce is probable.
THE great problem that safeguarding tie
affections maintaining honorable relationships
the sexes Those social practices which trfe
with affections and induce immoraltes prior to
marriage certainly pave the way domestic unhap-
piness and divorce after marriage The law OF the
harvest applies here. If insist sowing the seed
must expect TO reap the harvest"
TRYING TO TURN WORLD
INTO TURKISH HAREM.
Rev. Alfred Merrill Eells D. D.. of the Westminster
Presbyterian church. says:
The foundation of the church. nation and society
the Destroy that the superstructure will
fall Whether It the breaking down Of moral stand-
resulting from tho whether the
Of augmenting influences predating that event yet the
fact remains that there agencies at work trying
turn this world into Turkish harem. Cheap novels
and lax enforcement of law combining nulIify
the sacredness OF the family Preside
ASIDE private the effect s deplorabIe
the nation. The divorce too easy in the United
States We have 5000 divorce courts and United
States grants nearly $1,000 divorces year. while Cam
ada grants only 500 year. What is the result? Pc
spect for the most sacred OF all human institutions
and with it respect for such things
governments and right If the home is right the
will be right be right Pliny
tells that during the first 500 years of Roman his
tory there divorces Then Rome its great
glory. Then luxury and divorces. And then
crumbled Eighty thousand divorces
granted in year in Paris preceded the worst revo-
luton that convulsed France. If you would
the of the growth OF boshevism. disregard OF
public welfare and national look
disappearing sanctty Of the family Preside.
What is the remedy? Only one The religion OF
Christ who honored the home, wrought
into family life Divorces must be made so hard that
a name be erased from a marriage certih-
until it IS chiseled a tomb stone Then when
person realizes that marriage is life relationship
hasty matches will be thing Of the past a diviney
crowned love will preddninate and the world be
safe"
Rev [. s. Davis d D. draws similar conclusions
10 those OF Dr. EeIls and Dr. Greene.
THE divorce question is important" he says "be-
cause concerns the home. The is the first and
important institution The home is the founda-
ton society. the fountain which all other
institutions flow. From the family have come our
schools. churches and civic ideas. In Amer
the family has always beeQ held in the highest
gard In a republic the family must be revered In
American history certain family stand out
We mention with pride the family OF Washing
ton. Lee Adams Jefferson. Hancock Phillips and
Beecher These influences that have out Of these
families felt in phase OF national life.
No other has exalted the family after the fash
ion Of America.
When we think OF the family think Of
children. The history family history