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The Eminent Divine’s
Discourse.
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Eubjeet: The Divorce Question—Domestic 1
Disorders a Subject of Xaiioiml Im
portance— Uniformity ot Divorce Daws
in tiie. Various Stales Suggested.
[Copyright., Louis Klopscli, 1899.1
Washington, D. C.— Dr. Talmaga in this
discourse discusses a question of national
importance, which is confessedly as diffi
cult as it is urgent. The text is Matthew
six,, 6, “What therefore God hath joined
together let not man put asunder.”
That there are hundreds and thousands
of infelicitous homes in America no one
will doubt. If there were only one skeleton
in the closet, that might be locked up and
abondoned, but in many a home there is a
skeleton in the hallway and a skeleton in
all the apartments. “Unhappily married”
are two words descriptive of many a home
stead. It needs no orthodox miuister to
prove to a badly mated pair that there is a
hell. They are there now. Sometimes a
grand and gracious woman will he thus in
carcerated, and her life wilt be a cruci
fixion, as was the case with Mrs. Sigour
ney, the great poetess and the great soul.
Sometimes a consecrated man will be united
to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to
a vixen, as was John Milton. Sometimes
and generally both parties are to blame,
and Thomas Carlyle is an intolerable
grumbler, and his wife lias a pungent re
tort always leady, and Froude, the histo
rian, pledged to tell the plain truth, has to
pull aside the curtain Irom the lifelong
squabble at Cralgenputtoek and 5 Cheyne
row.
Some say that for the alleviation of all
these domestic disorders of which we hear
easy divorce is a good prescription. God
sometimes authorizes divorce as certaiuly
as He authorizes marriage. I have just as
much regard for one lawfully divorced as
I have for one lawfully married. But you
know and I know that wholesale divorce
is one of our national scourges. lam not
surprised at this when I think of the influ
ences which have been abroad militating
against the marriage relation. For many
years tke platforms of the country rang
with talk about a free love millennium.
There vrere neetiDgs of this kind held in
t£e AcaAemv of Music, Brooklyn; Cooper
institute, New York; Tremont Temple,
Eostoa, anil a.l ever the land. Some of the
woman who were most prominent in that
movement have since been distinguished
lor great piomiscusity of affection. Popu
lar therue3 lor such occasions were the tyr
anny of man. the oppression of the mar
riage r. ation, women’s rights and the
affinities. Prominent speakers were
women witn short curls and short
dress and very long tongue, , ever
lastingly at war with God because they
wore created women, while on the plat
fertq sat meek men with soft accent and
cowed demeanor, apologetic for masculin
ity' and holding the parasols while the
termagant orators went on preachiug the
gospel of free love. That campaign of
about twenty years set moro devi s into the
marriage relation than will be exorcised in
the next fifty. Men and women went home
from such meetings so permanently eon
fused as to who were their wives and hus
bands that they never got out of the per
plexity, and the criminal and the civil
courts tried to disentangle the Iliad of
woes, and the one got alimony, and that
one got a limited divorce, and this mother
kept the children on condition that the
father could sometimes come and look at
them, and (These went into poorhouses,
and those went into an insane asylum, and
those went into dissolute public life, and
all went to destruction. The mightiest war
evay made against the marriage institution
was that frr love campaign, sometimes
under one name and sometimes under an
other.
Another influence that lias warred upon
the marriage relation ha3 been polygamy
in Utah. That is a stereotyped caricature
ot'.the marriage relation and has poisoned
the whole land. You might as well {Dink
that you can have an arm in a state of mor
tification and yet tho whole body not be
sickened as to have any Territories or
States polygamized and yet the body of the
nation not feel the putrefaction. Hear it,
good men and women or America, that so
long ago as 1862 a law was passed by Con
gress forbidding poigamy iu the Territories
and in all the places where they had juris
diction. Thirty-seven years have passed
along and nine administrations, yet not
until the passage of the Edmunds law iu
1882 was any active policy of polygamic
suppression adopted. Armed with all tho
power of government and having an army
at their disposal, the lirst brick had not till
then been knocked from that fortress of lib
ertinism. Every new President in his inaug
ural tickled that monster with the straw
condemnation,and every Congress
itself in proposing some plan that would
not work. Polygamy stood in Utah, and
in other of the Territories more intrenched,
more brazen, more puissant, more brag
gart and more internal than at any time
in its history. James Buchanan, a much
abused man of his day. did more for the
extirpation of this villainy than al! the
subsequent administrations dared to do up
io 1882. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army,
and, although it was halted in its work, still
he accomplished more than the subsequent
administrations, which did nothing hut
talk, talk, talk. Even at this late day and
With the Edmunds act in force the evil has
not been wholly extirpated. Polygamy in
Utah, though outlnwed, is still practiced
in secret. It has warred against the mar
riage relation throughout the land. It is
impossible to have such an awful sewer of
fcioaitv sending up its miasma, which is
•wafted by the winds norLh, south, east and
wsst, wl-hca: tha whole land being affected
by
"Nov?,” say some, "wo admit all these
evil!, and the only way to clear them out
e.r to correct them is by easy divorce.”
Well, before we yield to that cry let us ilnd
cut Low er.sy it _s now. I have looked
Over the laws o“ all the States, and I find
,Let, whi.e in some Ctates it Is easier than
in others, in every Ctate it is easy. The
State cf JlLncis. through its Legislature,
recites u long Let of proper causes for
divorce i..nd tbej closes up by giving
to the courts Its right to make a de
cree of Uvent's n any case where they
deem it czpedls.nt. After that you are
not surprised at the announcement
that ii "cue year there were 333 di
vorces. If you want to know how easy
it is, you have only to look over the records
of tjo States —in’ Massachusetts, CO ) di
vorces in one' year; in Maine, 478 in
one year, In Connecticut, 401 divorces
in one year; in the city of San
Francisco, 333 divorces in one year; in
New England in one year, 2113 divorces,
and in twenty years in New England, 20,-
000. Is that not easy enough? If the same
ratio continues the ratio oi multiplied di
voica and multiplied causes of divorce,
we are not far from the time when our
courts will have to set apart whole days
far application, and all you will have to
prove against a man will be that he left his
tiinpers in the middle of the floor; and all
you will have to prove against a woman
will he that her husband’s overcoat was
buttoniess. Cause of divorce doubled in a
few years—doubled in France, doubled in
England and doublsd in the United States.
Vp tsbcw hosv very easy it is, I have to tell
von that in Western Reserve, Ohio, the
proportion of divorces to marriages cele
brated was in one year 1 to 11; in Rhode
Island, 1to3; in Vermont, Ito 14. Is not
that easy enough?
I want you to notice that frequency of
divorce always goes along with the disso
luteness of society. Rome for 500 years
had not one ease of divorce. Those were
her days of glory and virtue. Then tho
reign of vice began, and divorce became
epidemic. If you want to know how rap
idly the 1 il' r “ went com, ask Gibbon.
Do- ■ * ~ the r p ig D of terror was
j | By 23,000 oast s of
BE TS Hr.
i- t
ward
tion a iuflß* went
off on a pfHfci;Ciil\ r l’ orc °r
a business wHt Married
at the hride’iraLgt CT! are
States of the Untot*-* 1 put
a premium upon tip. , r . n( .9 ! ation of the
marriage relation, tyY ‘are other
States, like the Slate A. jtiJKork. which
has the pre-eminent iilpoy of making mar
riage lawful at t iveVnd fourteen years
of age. r
The Congress of the United Stntes needs
to move fer a change of the Rational con
stitution nud then to appoints committee
—not made up of single gentlemen, but of
men of families, and their families in Wash
ington—who shall prepare a good, honest,
righteous, comprehensive uniform law that
will control everything from Sandy Hook
to the Golden Gate. That will put an end
to brokerages in marriages. That will send
divorce lawyers into a decent business.
That will set peoDle agitated for many
years on the question of how they shall get
away from each other to planning liow they
can adjust themselves to the mofe or less
unfavorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an estop
pal to a great extent upon marriage as a
financial speculation. There are men who
go into the relation just as they go into
Wall street to purchase shares. The fe
male to be invited into the partnership of
wedlock is utterly unattractive and in dis
position a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody
kuowsit, hut this masculine candidate for
matrimonial orders, through the commer
cial agency or through the county records,
finds out how much estate is to be in
herited, and.he calculates it. He thinks
out how long it will be before the old man
will die and whether lie can stand the re
fractory temper until he does die, and then
lie enters the relation, for he says, “If I
cannot stand it, then through the divorce
law I will back out.” That process is go
ing on all the time, and men enter into the
relation without any moral principle, with
out any affection, and it is as much a mat
ter of stock speculation as nnything that
was transacted yesterday in Union Pacific,
Wabash and Delawaro and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose a man understood, as he
ought to understand, that it he goes into
that relation there is no possibility of his
getting cut or no probability. He would
be more slow to put his neck in the yoke.
He should say to himself, “Rather than a
Caribbean whirlwind with a whole fleet of
shipping in its arms, give me a zephyr off
fields of sunshine and gardens of peace.”
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of marrying
men to reform them. If a young man, by
twenty-five years of age or thirty years of
age, have the habit ot strong drink fixed
on him, be is as certainly bound for a
drunkard’s grave as that a train starting
out from the Grand Central depot at 8
o’clock to-morrow morning is bound for
Albany. The train may not reach Albany,
for it may be thrown from the track. The
young man may not reach a drunkard’s
grave, for something may throw him off
the iron track of evil habit. But the proba
bility is that the train that starts to-mor
row morning at 8 o’clock for Albany will
get there, and the probability is that the
young man who lias the habit of strong
drink fixed on him before twenty-five
or thirty years of age will arrive
at a drunkard’s grave. She knows
ho drinks, although ho trie3 to hide it
by chewing cloves. Everybody knows
he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors
and friends warn. She will marry him,
she will reform him. If she is unsuccess
ful in the experiment, why, then, the di
vorce law will emancipate her, because
habitual drunkenness is a cause for di
vorce in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con
necticut and nearly all the States. So the
poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice. If
you will show mo the poverty struck
streets in any city, I will show you the
home3 of the womeu who married men to
reform them. In one case out of ton thou
sand it may be a successful experiment. I
never saw the successful experiment. But
have a rigorous divorce law, and that
woman will say, “If I am affianced to that
maD, it is for life, and if now, in the ardor
of his young love and 1 the prize to be
won, lie will not give up bis cups, when be
has won the prize surely be wiii not give
’up his cups.” And so that woman will say
I to the man: “No, sir; you are already mar
; ried to the club, and you are married to
! that evil 'habit, and so you are married
i twice, and you are a bigamist. Go!”
Let me say to all young people, before
you give your heart and band in holy al
liance, use all caution. Inquire outside as
to habits, explore the disposition, scrutin
ize the taste, question the ancestry and
find out the ambitions. Do not take the
heroes and heroines of ebeap novels fora
model. Do not put your lifetime huppi
ness in the keeping of a man who has a
reputation of being a little loose in morals
or in the keeping of a woman who dresses
immodestly. Remember that, while good
looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles or
accident may despoil them. Remember
that Byron was no more celebrated for his
beauty than for his depravity. Rememfcfr
tlmt Absalom’s hair was not more splendid
than his habils were despicable. Hear it!
Hear it! The only foundation for happy
marriage that ever has been or evqr will
he Is good character. Ask the counsel of
father and mother in this most important
step of your life. They are good advisers.
They are the best friends you ever had.
They made more sacrifices for you than
any one else ever did.
And let me say to those of you who are
in happy married union, avoid first quar
rels; have no unexplained correspondence
with former admirers; cultivate no sus
picions; in a moment of bad temper do not
rush out and tell the neighbors: do not let
any of those gadabouts of society unload
in your house their baggage of gab and
tittle tattle; do not make it an invariable
rule to stand on your rights; learn how to
apologize; do not be so proud or so stub
born or so devilish that you will not make
up. Remember that the worst domestic
misfortunes and most scandalous divorce
cases started Irom little infelicites. The
whole piled up train of ten rail cars tele
scoped and smashed at the foot of an em
bankment 100 feet down came to that ca
tastrophe by getting two or three inches
off the track. Some of the greatest domes
tic misfortunes and the widest resoumliDg
divorce cases have started from little mis
understandings that were allowed to go on
and go on until home and respectability
and religion and immortal soul went down
in the crash.
Fellow citizens as well as fellow Chris
tians, let us have a divine rage against
anything that wars on the marriage state.
Blessed institution! Instead of two arms
to flgnt the battle of life, four; instead of
two eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four;
instead of two shoulders to lift the burden
of life, four; twice the energy, twice the
courage, twice the holy ambition, twice
the probability of worldly success, twice
the prospects of heaven. Into that matri
monial bower God fetches two souls. Out
side the bower, room for ail contentions,
and all bickerings, and all controversies,
but inside that bower there is room for
only one guest—the angel of love. Let
♦ hat angel stand at the floral doorway of
this F.denic bower with drawn sword to
hew down the worst foe of that bower—
easy divorce. And for every paradise lost
may there be a paradise regained. And
after we quit our home here may we have
1a brighter home in heaven; at the windows
of which, this moment, are familiar faces'
watching for our arrival and wondering
why so long we tarry.
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PT_TTW. or DnuOQlR, I* HIL_A CtT N,
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Increasing statistics showing changes
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principal countries which they inhabit
have just been published in London.
There are now four and a half millions
of Jews in Russia, over half a million
in Austria, 150,000 in England and
930,000 in the United States. This in
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and the United States, for in the be
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14,000 Jews in England and 1,000 in
the United States.
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“That young Perkins who comes to
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sls at the barber shop.”
“Well, papa, lie deserves credit for
trying to looolc like a gentleman.”
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When Mr. Bloser examined the old
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The eucalyptus tree, it is reported,
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Should the eucalyptus prove as use
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States. We had 856 acres In wheat this year,
and the crop averaged 20 bushels t er aero
Where we had a good stand, not winter kil
led, v.'e had over 40 bushels per acre. One
hundred bushels of our wheat will contain
less cockle seed than one bushel of ordinary
seed wheat. Price t 1.15 per bushel on cars
at Charlotte. Bugs hold two bushels and
are new—no charge for bags. Terms: Cash
with order.
CHARLOTTE OIL & FERTILIZER CO.
Per FKKII OLIVER, Pres't.
<II Alt LOTI 1*;. - - - - • N. (’.
PRAGt/Cry
HELP FOR
SUFFERING
WOMEN
PITTS’
Antiseptic Invigorator
FOII
The Stomach, The Liver,
The Bowels, The Kitfeys,
The Blood, The Nerves,
Contagious Diseases.
AntlHoptlc luvlfforutor In n a;#rm-Killer, a
diuretic, a blood purifier, a stomach and
nerve tonic, a n'iinulant for the liver and
bowels. Manufactured by
PITTS’ ANTISEPTIC’INVIGORATOR CO.,
THOMSON, GA.
CIR! Repairs
BRISTLE TWINE, BABBIT, &o. f
FOR ANY MAKE OF GIN.
ENGINES. BOILERS UNI) PRESSES
And Kepalrs for snmc. Shafting, Pulleys,
Belting, Injectors, Pipes, Valves and Fittings,
LOMBARD IKON WORKS 4 SUPPLY CO,
AUGUBTA. GA.
r&njo sohoolssK
JTTnr, Ttthloulow. All i>ok FREK.
OTHKOSI TUrl l lONtSGufIRII MTbfcl)
Over f>.) Hsmlni’feon and Mnlth Prrinlvr type
writers. K 54 students lwt year trmu 7 States.
Bth year. Send Tor oar.nl' ue. Addre.-s. bsp'ttt,
STRAYER’S BUSINESS COL’liE, Baltimors.Md.
W. L. DOUGLAS
53&53.5Q SHOES ■•£
Worth $4 to $6 compared with
other makes.
H Indorsed by over
| fa IQ 1,000,000 wearers.
ALL LEATHEPB. ALL STYLES
R 1 y p)j TIIK 6KSITKB have W. L. Dunyas'
rjfrffih: r ■>■ and prl* ataajprd on bUa.
\ Take no substitute claimed
VT/v I to be as good. Largest maker*
of 98 and *B.SO aboes in the
world. Your dealer should keep
them—lf not, we will send you
rrf*s*nWw/ ■W'-'/ -I a pair on receipt of price. State
kind of leather, size and width, plain or cap toe.
Catalogue C Free.
W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO.. Brockton. Mass.
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