The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-01-06
SPECIAL CHURCH
SERVICE SUNDAY
FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY
TO BE HELD AT ST.
MARY'S
COMMUNICATED

The feast will open with thu
Mass of the day which viii b
held at Z, S:15 and 10 o'clock t.
accommodate all the faithful. In
the evening at 1880, a special ser
mon win be given to commemorate
the feast by the pastor. His sub
ject will be the vital topic of the
day-"our American family life
and Gods given Model"
The president is asking the con-
gress to give billions to the NRA
to save 80 million families of our
nation from despair and destitu-
ton. In his address to the Federal
Council of Churches at Washing
ton, he denounced the pagan
ethics of today, that have robbed
us and left us dying by the way
side not only economically, but
also morally. AS in Greece and
Rome, a social or economic order
ruled by pagan ethics always has
broken down and always will break
down.
Modern marriage has lost its
sanctity. Holy marriage is, there
fore, insofar, as it can be called
modern" is a thing of the past.
Moral, don't contract a modern
marriage. 1t is a travesty, carl
cature, a mockery Of the true
ideal. Men and women of Chris
tain faith ought to have nothing to
do with modern marriage. Nothing
to do with it, because modern
marriage has lost its sanctity-its
unity-its indissolubility. Mar
rage thus bereft has upset the
home. The home IS no longer the
cradle of our race. 1t has lost
its other fine claims. It can no
longer be called the nursery of
childhood, the temple of love, the
Sanctuary of conjugal fidelity.
How did our moderns get that
way? How did they plunge deep
er than pagan Rome or Greece?
The Americans are trained to it.
Look at what they read; go to the
theatres; read the Divorce Court
documents; the automobile; the
bad example around them, the
daily newspapers. The magazine,
the novel. the stage ridicule mar
rage publicly.
OF so modern novels, eleven
ridicuIe marriage as effete and OBJ
solete; eleven others parade the
necessity Of divorce; % uphold
free love; seven openly mock the
ideal of conjugal fidelity; while
% speak in a slanderous and sour
rilous manner about the institu-
ton of marriage. These feed the
scenario writer's and the movie
magnets with their matter. Our
moral decay is fostered by the
courts and by the very laws which
these courts interpret and execute.
Many of the churches are ready
to compromise on this vital ques-
ton upon which the future of our
nation depends. The schools with
their pagan ethics destroy the
ideals of marriage in the minds of
our hopefuls.
What is to be done? God gives
us the remedy-if we are to save
our nation, if we wish that our
government shall not perish from
the earth. Our real strength is
not in the army or navy, but in
the homes of our people. Our
redemption is not in the relief
money Of the NRA but BY Christ
in the home. BY Him alone can
civilization hope to be preserved
and perpetuated. On Him we will
establish stable economic and
social order.
The service will close with the
Conservation Of the families of
Key West to the Sacred Heart Of
our Master which viii be follow
ed by the Blessing of Jesus Christ
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