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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4148, 19 November 1920, Page 2

"AVhat are Aye doing for the crippled soldiers?' asked a London paper. "Binding up their wounds with red tape," was one of the answers. "Divorce is not the cause of the decadence of n nation, but it is a symptom of that decadence." The Rev. D. D. Scott quoted these words of an eminent authority at the Presbyterian General Assembly ,in Wellington. He proposed that the Church should make an effort to proclaim the Christian view of marriage, and suggested a "big drive" on one particular Sunday. The Rpv. Isaac Jolly said 1 that the ivav in which marriage Avas coming to be regarded by many people, Avas one of the ominous signs of the times. One had only to recall the history of the Roman Empire to appreciate the significance of Rev. D. Scott's quotation. It was patent, to "all that the communit- avos drifting away from the Christian doctrine of marriage, the -preservation of # Avhich was essential for the Avell-boing of the nation, not merely of the church.