The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-14
HUNDREDS HEAR DIR.
R. L. DAVIDSON TALK
ON 1.-THE HOME AND
HOME-W -WRECKERS'

Sunday night witnessed one of the
largest audiences ever assembled in
the history of Broadway Baptist
church AS early as 7:15 the audi
torium was comfortably filled with
lovers Of music 10 hear the sacred
concert by the orchestra. Before the
beginning of the sermon hundreds
had been turned away from lack OF
room. The pastor, DR. r. l., David
son, spoke on The Home and Home
Wreckers." He said in part:
The home is the most ancient and
revered institution on earth. 1t an
tedates the school. the church and
| the state by millenniums. II was
the gift of God to man in the Garden
Of Eden in the days of his innocence
IT was established when God united
in marriage Adam and Eve and COM
manded them 10 dwell together as
one.
! The Nursery 0f The Race
THE home is the nursery of the
human race. God, by His almighty
fiat. created the first man and woman
! then He delegated this power to them
| The most sacred and transcendent
power possessed by man is that OF
reproducing the human kind. This
power was not given to him to play
with but to enable him to do that
which, hitherto, God only had power
TO do, the bringing Of a human
creature into existence. To use this
power for any other purpose is to
dishonor God and prostitute mankind
On the home was laid the chief re-
sponsibility for the rearing and train
ing OF children. 1t has more to dc
with the destiny of child than
the school, the state and the church
combined, for it has control OF the
child 1877 hours out of the 1863 OF
each week.
The Unit OF Society
"The home is the unit OF society
! Society is the foundation of all gov
ernment Corrupt homes make cor,
rupt society. Corrupt society makes
corrupt government. Good homes
make good society. Good society
/ HluheS Sopu government.
Home -Wreckers
"As the home is the most important
and necessary institution on earth
the wrecking Of the home is the great.
est crime that can be committed. II
is worse than burglary, robbery, arson
or murder for these crimes are against
the individual but the home-wreckel
sins against innocent and helpless
childhood, society, the school, the
church, the State and God and heaven
The most of criminals come from
wrecked homes. No state has beer
able TO long survive the corruptins
OF its homes The home-wreckel
blasts at the very foundations Of the
universe.
Polygamy anad Polyandry
"A few years ago we were Mortified
at the revelations Of Mormonism. We
passed stringent laws against mar
having more than one wife or a wo.
man having more than one husband
But We are growing accustomed tC
this evil. In some instances di.
vorce is sought in order that an
other marriage might be consumated
| The engagement antedates the divorce
proceedings and inspires them. In
other instances. however, the form
ality OF a divorce is not sought. Men
and women live in many of oul
cities in open violation of their mar
riage VOWS and in defiance OF law
and decency. The downfall OF every
nation that has ceased 10 exist can be
traced 10 the wreckng OF its homes
| America is not immune from thi.
evil.
COndgn Punishment
THE only way to stop crime is tc
visit swift and condgn punishment
upon the criminal. A masculine home
wrecker has no more place in the So
/ cial, political or commercial life ol
a community than water mocca
sin has in room filled with schoo
children. A feminine vampire has nc
more place in decent society than O
turkey buzzari in a flock of turtle
doves. Why send to the pententiary
the man who breaks into q home ant
steals a purse and give the keys o.
the town to the man who breaks int(
his neighbor's home and steals hi!
wife? Why quarantine a physica
leper and allow moral lepers TO ruI
at large to spread their deadly con
tagion through the community? w,
need a revival OF respect for law, o
old fashioned purity and Of reverenc,
for the sanctity and inviolability o.
the home.