AGAINST DIVORCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 7

AGAINST DIVORCE.

, ITS EFFECT ON MORALS. ' VIEWS OF BISHOP OF WAIAPU. I; Preaching.-. at ! St.,Slark's'dast night, the liisliop ; of. Waiapu (ltighfr' : l!evv. A, -\V. Avenll): spoke 'in , a''striking "V; ,'maiirier ,', 011. divorce;; and; "race-suicide.";; f;'' • "Does it .not oftChTseem-to'bbi tke.way);;.; ;of. the'.'world.'V b'e', i said, , "that;men';otid.f:3 . women' make .-'suffering' I'or by . ■ trying;,toH avoid the suffering which/it : ia' their duty to; face and bear? Look at '• tho tendency throughout;the world to : relax' the binding nature of 'the; marriage .bond—the.increasing facilities, for: divorce.;. !'; ilen and women, arc! being to make a thoughtless -choice—encouraged i;i to treat lightly a matter of . the. most;' vital importance; not ! ,'6nly! to -men ■ and.ij .women,"but' also to nations and-empires--'.{V by ottering to,-them'.a supposed'remedy.;:, for. suflcring occasioned by a wrong,'; choico.: - Wo-- aro very -short-sighted, as; . a rule, in judging of; these : matters,:and. politicians ' are sometimes only'. an .: echo: ".; .- of ; tlioso 'who make .'the; most-noise. ' If;:'-/; divorce Maws relieve; , a small': amount' of suffering, thoy -increase suffering, tenfold,:: J perhaps n hundredfold. In many cases tliey are the incentivo to- sin and c'ohs6«, (lue.ut suffering ; ' they are certainly-,tha ; ; incentive to the degradation of the sacred; ,', duty i'of,. choice..- and '.'they ~nrecertainly," ■- teaching; that. duty. is faU 'very' well as long as it is;' pleasant, but as: soon a3 .suffering comes and duty becomes hard, then fling 'yinds, .and escape: sttfftdng''at;all' : 'i^ey..aro certainly lowering .the standard'- ;; of, morals in, tho-.world;-; And .is.not. tha -;.-. samo cause, to a neat latent at. the root, /, of what is sometimes dilled race-suicido ? " - Is it not, in .many cases, an attempt, a, ' desiro to escape from suffering; : from; : hardship,.iii ,order to bo, free-to' followf a life of-pleasure and ■ case? We forsako X'. the very principles, of God in order to .- avoid suffering,:. which, we ought to >fac& V in;,the. execution of dntyV and 'we; raroly-' ; ;|; gain our end m the long run, for wo only! • sow the seeds, of much worse kinds bfl suffering/'-'.'-.--V