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PRESERVE NATION
FATE RESTS UPON REVER.
ENCE TO GOD
WARNING NOW ISSUED
Joint Communion On Home and
Family Life, Episcopal
Church Report

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Associated Press Dispatchl
New York, July 20.-Uttering
Solemn warning to the men and
women of America" that this ma
ton will decay and finally perish
when American homes cease to re-
we're God" the report OF the Joint
Commission on Home and Family
Life. which will be presented to the
triennial general convention of the
Episcopal Church meeting in Port
land, Oregon, September 6 next
was made public today.
Advanced culture did not save
past civilization. did not prevent
Germany from plunging into a gull
OF infamy.s Upon Americas conse-
Grafton to God depends her fate"
says the report, which contains an
dustrial conditions in the United
States with particular reference to
home life.
The commission was appointed
by the Episcopal general ,conven-
ton six years ago, and includes in
its personnel some of the most dis
tinguished bishops, clerical and lay
members of the church. Among 9TH
er subjects which are frankly treat
ed are those of marriage, divorce
and birth control. The report. con
tains a strong recommendation
against the latter. Rev. Charles
Noyes Tyndell, S. T. D., of Will
Transport, Pa, secretary of the COM
mission in transmitting the report,
says that the whole effort Of the
commission, has been to present to
the country vital message in as
concise form as possible.
Lack of Religion. Home
Even a cursory glance at condi-
tons in the average American home
reveals evidence sufficient to war
rant the most careful study of those
influences now affecting these
ais and religion" the report con.
tinues. .The attitude toward youth,
even more than the attitude of the
youth, will scarcely bear severe
scrutiny. s.. ~.
1--WE touch the root of our family
problem when we point to the lack
of religion in the home. 1t Is para
Lying to think of the average Ann
erican family going on from the ris-
ing to the retiring hour as IL God
had no existence. Sunday is day
for extra sleep, motoring, Sunday
papers in many volumes, comic sup
plements. If American children are
not to be taught of God in the
schools, and He is unnamed in the
home, what can we expect but at
this moment the United States is
actually developing, into a nom
Christian nation?"
Touching upon domestic life in
America, the report says:
Where family life is dishonored
wedding unfaithfulness lightly re-
garded, parental responsibility neg
lected. filial respect and obedience
sighted, there, we may be sure, so
tremble for the future of a state or
nation where lax theories concern
ing domestic life gain ground. Even
laxer practice will certainly prevail.
"The remedy for the frightful
dissolution on the marriage tie going
on in America and its inevitable
consequences of race Suicide is to
be found in Christian training alone.
Remedial legislation while impos-
ing difficulties in the way of easy
annulment does not go to the root
Of the evil. It attacks many out
ward symptoms OF the disease and
Is of undoubted value, but 1t does
not destroy the germ of the evil or
cure it at its source
Marriage 10 Endorsed
Boys and girls must be taught as
early as possible that the chief pur-
pose of marriage is the perpetua-
ton of the race, involving the be-
getting and education of children
for the work Of the world. Mar
rage is a high and holy vocation
because the married pair are COOP
Grating with the creator in the CON.
tinuance of the human race.
This commission heartily en-
dorses the warning uttered by the
great Lambeth Conference Of Bish-
ops. gathered from all over the world
in London in 1920, against the prac-
tice Of means for the avoidance of
conception as involving grave dan
gers to physical health as we'll as
moral Innocence, and threatening
the future OF the human race We
make our own the words of the
conference committee. as anplying
in particular to the United States"
The report is signed by Rt Rev.
William H. Moreland D. d. Bishop
OF Sacramento. who is chairman Of
the Commission; Rt. Rev Sidney
Catlin Partridge D. D., Bishop OF
West Missouri: Rt. Rev. David Lin
coin Ferris D. D.. bishop of West
ern New York; RI Rev Walter
Taylor Sumner D. D.. Bishop of
OREGON: RI Rev. Charles Fiske. D.
D.. Bishop Coadfitor of Central New
York, Ri, Rev. John c. Ward Bish-
90 of Erie. Rev j. H. Mellish, OF
BROOKLYN: Rev. Edwin s. Lane, nj
Los ANGELES. Rev. e. S. Travers, d.
y. of Pittsburgh. Robert A. Woods,
Clinton ROGERS Woodruff, James NJ.
Rull and Franz Sritfla