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[DY FATHER BERNARD
VATOHAN.]
TELEGRAPH.
I am glad that women have votes. It is their mission to stop any Divorce Bill from becoming law. It women do not wreck the Divorce Bill threatening us it
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22.1921.
centred, without that trust, which ia to my thinking about the highest expression of brotherly
love.
tokens of altruism.
SHOCKING CHARGES.
Conductors of Periodical Prosecuted.
These repeated strikes holding Dangers of the Divorce Bill the entire nation are not
Four men charged with con- 1 from the Press that no spiring to corrupt publie morals fewer than five judges are needed in connection with the publica- to cope with the divorce cases tion of The Link, a matrimonial|
agency paper. appeared before which are besieging the courts.
What a reflection this is on the Lord Mayor at the Mansion the actual state of married life in House. The defendants were England! The Victorian day of life was perhaps duli and drab and the red plush curtains and horsehair chairs were a bit trying to one's artistic temperament, but anyhow society in that day, now long fled, was respectable, decent, and God-fearing. It was not cynic-ent of Carlisle. a). Lippant, satirical, and irreligious.
will wreck them.
Alfred Walter Barrett, author and publisher, of Balham
Geoffrey Bevis Ingman Smith, clerk, of Enfield.
William Ernest Hunter Smyth, library assistant, of Belfast.
Weiter Stuart Birks, independ
Marriaza is something more serious and sacred than a mere social function or a mutual arrangement or a civil contract. It is a divine institution, and it is
Sir Richard Muir, for the pro- no use pretending it is not. Afore-
secution, said the gas was of over, it is an indissoluble union,
Then it was recognised that such a nature as to prohibit it and therefore should not be light- is entered into. It is a state of happiness was not in the gift of being opened in detail.
Barrett was the proprietor and life which cannot be dissolved an architect, an upholsterer, &
modiste, and a cook. To society editor of a monthly publication except by the band of death.
in the early Victorian age which appeared to have started The Catholic Church bas always held and taught that the happiness was found in cham- in 1915 under the name of Cupid's pionship in the cultivation of Messenger, and which described valid marriage, opce consum- literature, music, art, and religion-itself as the only monthly "prac
to find tically devoted to love interests." writers there are, like Mr. H. G. To-day people want
In February 1916 this name Wells, who wrongly think the happiness where it is not. It is Pope may in some instances set not on the golf links, not on the was abandoned for that of The tengis ground--though both Link. The publication now con- aside the laws of the Church in
places have their use. It is by sisted almot entirely of ad- individual cases, and even perhe fire-side in the cosy library, vertisements, which, said counsel, mit a man to have two wives where man and wife talk over were from ladies who wished to Naver has any such p rmission
mated, endures with life. Some
common.
been wrong from any Pope, I common interests and joys in be introduced to gentlemen, gen- tlemen who wished to be intro- suppose some people have been
Love is no child of passion.duced to ladies, and men who fed into this error by the fact that marriages not consummated Love Loasts of a long pedigree, wished to be introduced to men.
Counsel quoted examples to may for very good reasons be Love traces its origin to God. annulled by the Holy See, just us Love is bord of God, and love can show their character, and said they are by the law of the land. Dever slake ita thirst or satisfy that Barrett had a number of In 1916 the police But we must not mistake annul-its appetite till it finds God and warnings.
rest in God My experience, officer told him that advertise-! ments for cases of divorce.
wide and large, confirms this.ments might be used to secure Of lato years Anglican clergy we are trying to do without Him recruits for the white slave traffic, men have interpreted Scripture
as allowing divorce for adulters.we are trying to extract from but Barrett repudisted any such Now it is proposed to have at creatures what is in God only. suggestion. least five grounds for divorce, and if five ground, why not twice five grounds?
Sooner or later it will come to this-that marriage will last till the parties tire of one another or quarrel with one another, or discover they like others better than one another.
What is love? Not what the When Barrett was arrested modern novel tells you. It is not continued Sir Richard, a large the lure of beauts. Not what number of immoral letters were the diverce courts tell you. It is found. His method was to cen- not dead sea fruit turning to sor these letters, and then to cirders and to ashes on your bring the advertisers and corres- pondents in touch with each other to write what they chose.
lips.
Love is adoration love is a worship. Love has a thirst which A VISION OF DIVORCE nothing can quench but the Indeed, I can almost see in fountain of living waters-God. prophetic vision the time when itill marriage is regarded once will be easies in this country to more as a divine institutiob set get divorced than to get married. up by God for the due develop The clever, intriguing. and ment of the character, and for passionate man might in the the purposes which He was in
long B
lifetime view with regard to the propaga
of the TACE, have been tho busband of tion
course of
endeavouring
SOLE CLUE TO A DAUGHTER. One distressing letter that wes found was from a gentleman to recover bis daughter, who at the age of 17 disappeared from home, and the only clue to whose" wherabonts number or persons corresponding was a number of lettes from a can The Link.
"Barrett protested that was all a score of wives, each younger ever be soything but a ghastly and
beautiful than the failure to be dragged into the
divorce court for treedom from for purity and virtue." declared fotber.
when he is arrested there is But in the meantime what is its slavery. What a sordid, base Sir Richard with emphasis, but to be the fate of the divorced business it all is. Clearly this is wife? It is sad and humiliating not God's meaning of wedded found in his possession the most
life.
Mrs.
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advertisements, photographs, and But the England exposed by other things which in my long Supposing, for example, that) the young wife has had the Colonel Repington and misfortune through sickness to Asquith is not the only England experience at the criminal Bar Birks, counsel proceeded, was lose her charm, her grace. and There is another England of bas ever come to my notice." her beauty: and let, u further which we are all proud. an Eng- suppose she is without an apple land of which we should like the arrested in Carlisle, and letters beca in communication with fortune and is no: gifted with United States and our Over-seas were found showing that he had Dominions to know something myth in Belfast. An officer of the money-making talents. What,
It is an England of pure Royal Irish Constabulary called ander these circumstances, is to more.
by a few men women and brave men; an Eng on Smyth and found stacks of cor- became of her? Her last state
respondence which could not will be worse than her first.
possibly be read in public arising out of advertisments in The Link. It was through that medium sexual perverts managed to dis- cover each other. Brke's lettera It is an England which re-showed that he had conducted pudiates Lord Puckmaster's Mat-similar correspondence in the rimonial Clauses Bill, though that Isle of Man. bas passed the third reading re- cently with the Anglican Bishop
I refuse to contemplate it. I hope it will never matore to reality, because I hope every woman, married or single, will recard her vote against a system of divorce, which would mean. as I hare said, degradation and
ruin to women.
land with reverence for tradition. with loyalty to country together with worship of God and obedi- ence to His laws.
SUBSTITUTE FOR PRINCIPLE.
Some of the worst of thess It is a pity that we do not take our warnings about divorce from
etters were written by the de- America and Sweden. In Ohio, of Durham standing sponsor to fondant. Geoffrey Smith.
This I am told, the ratio of divorces it.
publication, concladed counsel, Well might the Archbishop of has a circulation which bas and marriage is one in four, and
hare protested Judge Anderson, of the Texas Canterbury
grown from a few hundreds to State Court, tells us that in seven against an advocacy of the Bill several thousands, and Barrett
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decrees. I am not surprised that ground than "expediency. Emesos of it. some of the United States judges, pediency is a poor and ignoble.
It is to put a stop to this criminal! unable any longer to endure the substitute for principle. It is publication. designed, intended, pressure of divorce cases, have private judgment gone mad. and succeeding in bringing to This morning I put down Mr.gether filthy and immoral mind- relinquished treir high positions and retired into private life. Lytton Straches's book on Queeped men and women that these But what is the use of raising Victoria. It is an instructive proceedings have been started. one's voice on behalf of the sacred volume. Queen Victoria is one character of matrimony when to the like of whom we shall noti some of my countryfolk nothing again. It is asked why she seems to be sacred? For them was so popolar with her people Captain John Barlow, of Douglas the only god is the golden calf. when she did so little to promote formerly connected with
Man Constabulary. It is money that they want, be- popularity. I have always be Isle of cause it is pleasure they must lieved that the people of this aid in April 1920, he warned have-and it is a ready-mones country revered her because they Birks to leave the island. He business. And it is honours regarded ber as a good woman, went to Peel, but afterwada returo- ed to Douglas and in October the that they seek, and these cost both as wife and mother.
they maner than
To-day we may well thank same year witness again bad tell God that in our present King and to him to leave the island.
Detective-Sergeant Tom Con- It is true that we have not yet Queen we have the sacred tradi
ennan, of the B.LC., said he found YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM- settled down after being for five tions of domestic virtues years harassed by the world war. hanced. From no home in this hundreds of letters at Smyth's Many boys and girls, especially country is there a better example address in Belfast, and he handed girls who earned high wages dur-set our people of domestic life in three typed pages of the names ing war time, have had to drop than from Buckingham Palace, and addresses of the writers. some of the money since where King George and Queen
Mora worth!
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'Is that the PRICES are Very Moderate. Inspection and Enquiries aras recoup ourselves for the fall in thank God for the example given ments in The Link
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One of the letters, headed portion, with the motto not on to noble deeds and to super-amb's Club, New York, was
Where do I come in?" but human efforts to reach ideale "Where do others come in the imperious need in England addressed, "Miss Smith."
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