THE SCANDAL OF ENGLAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 44 (Supplement)

THE SCANDAL OF ENGLAND.

Preaching on “Marriage and the Home,” at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the Rev. J. Cartmel Robinson, of Hoxton, said the divorce counts had become a scandal to the life of England. In 1897 there were 500 divorce cases before the courts, in 1903 the number was double that, just over 1000. In the United States things were even worse, and the President of that country had gone throughout the length and breadth of the land asking if the nation meant to commit suicide. People abroad looked upon "the smart set’’ as representative of English life, but “the smart set” was not typical of English home life—indeed, we could well do without the smart set. For where we had gxeat wealth there also was diabolical poverty, and with poverty one could not have a decent home life. South African wealth had not made England great, but righteousness; ani this could not be when homes were unhappy and men degraded by poverty. “Hearth and home” should be our watchword and our motto.