SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE.

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1919, Page 1

SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE.

The problem of divorce resolves itself into the preservation of the sanctity of the marriage tie. Every age may have its own particular vices, and perhaps it is not logical to set down the present generation as any worse than its predecessors. There are probably fanatics who would find cause for the prevalence of divorce in everything, from horse racing to jazz music. But if the community would see a decrease in statistics, surely the first thing it must do is to ensure that its children—the husbands and wives of the future —be trained to look upon the marriage tie as something more sacred than it must appear to them at present. Tho child cannot reverence the home without home life; he is unable to realise the sanctity of marriage without adequate religious training. Divorce is spoken of lightly nowadays. Fifty years ago women looked upon its court as a crowning disgrace; to-day many of them appear lo regard it as the natural means of escape from bonds that have become unpleasant or even irksome. Familiarity seems to have bred, not contempt, but something dangerously near complacency.—From tlie "Argus."