DIVORCE

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 1, 1 July 1929, Page 5

DIVORCE

Sir Divorce is so much m evidence that it would be well for women to weigh the matter out carefully and l consider all sides of it. Do we realise that women of the western world are m a better position generally than our own less fortunate sisters Jn other parts, m fact, more or less on a pedestal which we dont always deserve, and that it is Christianity alone that ha iS placed uw where we areP The higher feelings of chivalry and respect for the rights of others aye Christ's teaching, and it may he that the strength and security of the marriage bond 1 are to protect us more than anything, and to give to the married woman a status and influence which she would npt have otherwise. What woman is there m the humblest sphere of life who is not mistress and queen m her own home, able to make or mar it according to the good or evil that is m her? 1 have read that a Mahanimedan can divorce his wife on a slight protext. She has to go, leaving her children even, if he, so order it. In countenancing t!ie easy divorce we may be pulling t!ie house down on our heads, so to speak, it h one thing for us to divorce om # husbands, but it is quite different if men take advantage of an easy law and divorce us for the sake of a passing fancy. Christ knew the frailty of human nature, and perhaps nothing but the hard and fast rules of the marriage service, as m the New Testament, would do for us m our present state. Then what endless complicationa divorce brings. What of the children of these marriages? The complexities •ire so obvious we need not go into them. Divorce may m some cases be a dim groping for the ideal love where two people are absolute affinities, but are we capable of such true love? Human nature may be too elemnetal as yet to l»ve m the highest way. There may be many aching hearts now feeling the pangs of regret and remorse at the thought of the broken up home. Let is be extremely dareful before we encourage divorce, jasking guidance of our Master 1 m this matter;' as m all others. 1 - • ' > • •!■.-■- •.-•■•■ • " % ' . |\ ..;..■ , ANON,