The Daily News THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. "WHOSO GOD HATH JOINED."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81901, 13 December 1906, Page 2

The Daily News THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. "WHOSO GOD HATH JOINED."

Jf "marriages are made in Heaven," man evidently doesn't think much of Heaven's handiwork, for he calls upon earthly people to dissolve them with such frequency as to show his unbelief in the sanctity of the union, and the divinity of the marriage ceremony. 4'he commonness with which ho emphasises hia contention that marriage is a failure is becoming appalling. The crop of matrimonial cases that take up a good deal of the time of otu Supreme Court Judges need not ne-ct-ssarily alarm people who are hap pily wedded, but it very clearly demonstrates the old contention that "to marry in haste'' is often "to re pent at leisure.''

Apparently the most freiruont cause for an application for the dissolution of the marriage tie in New Zealand and Australia is desertion." Desertion pic-supposes "iucompaiibility of temperament." The same is fatal to any kind of a partnership, liomance has generally been made to surround marriage. Love is generally believed to be a mental ailment, and probably in its antenuptial slage it is so. "Incompatibility'' is generally not suspected by engaged peopie. L'nromimLic as it may seem, a student of human nature must ciass "Incompatibility'' as a physical ailment just like iniluenza, insobriety, diphtheria, or consumption. ".Uen rush in wncre angels fear to tread,'' and to prove the correctness of Hie adage, men rush out per di\ oree court oftener than is consistent Willi the general belief that the Creator is responsible lor the matrimonial join-

A Court can dissolve marriages, but a Court does not attempt to interfere to stop a proposed marriage, because neither of me parties to tile proposed contract maite application. lncompaUuility is sometimes happily discoverer prior to tue ringing oi the weuding oells, and misery is averted, Sometimes it is not discovered unlii mo united ones are Lue oossessois of cniUlren. The Court uissolves marriages and arranges tiie tiispositioii oi tue ciiijdien. ine eliudren are, liierei'urc, at an early age i'orccd to legaid tlie marriage l,e uim contempt, one .pieslions wuelncr tne unuluswug haste

apply for marriage dissolution is not me rcsiut oi a contempt learned in tneir ciaidiiood. Curiously it is a sin tu break a Human law. ine drainage law, which is held to oe a Divine law, may oe broken nilu impunity.

If human beings are competent to annul uivine law, tiiey ought to Oeaiso competent to puiiisli people for a oleatii of the Divine law. One iia» ue\cr nearu ol a man or woman ben." sent lo gaol lor not iieeding uio coma.and, "whom God halii joined loviie inaii-ntaue lau, iorget Hits nijuiicnoii. 11 a juuge mis tiie power to uc-

tide tnat two persons, aller a iew years ol inisciv, are not titled lo remain man and wile, is it not reasonable llial some human tribunal ling.,., nave power to decide who is lit to .mite, oelore the misery begins': If ...e ian is clear on tue point as lo tne absolution ol uuu'ilagis lor ucinicu uiiciices, could not a law oe reasonably .WO people sholllu AIIOW eacil utiiel pi lor to entering into a contract so eaoiiy aiinti.ieu:

in one leceiU, case of desertion, ii .wis sliovvii mat a man Had niarin.M a iioiiian, had leu her at tlie church, and mid nol since been near her. In au-

.Jluer c.i.-e i.eard i.lsi week, it v. a, staied thai desertion had occurred oewlllsc tile vi.lv; vwis "sick of ii,:n. ' i'u,uaoiy it a law existed colnpe.iliig tnose peopie to na\e known eaeii ouicr ior a peiioil oi years previous to marriage, tuey vvouid eiuier nave tailed to get joiueu or have eiilered into the contract wilii belter prospects ol mutually agreeing. .Legislators are piesiiiuauiy ~iii,„s lo still runner inter-it-ie with U.e Uivine oruniance, lor .luring Ine :ast scs-ioil ol the last l'ariiameui an apparently leusoiiauie man ni the iiouse mtrodced a new. cause lor inclusion m Hie Jiarriage Act. ibis ..ei.gnii.n clause maue continued uiuacy of one partner to a marriage con.laet groiiini fur uivuiee. i_ Ui6 vvas not going to oe a jjivint- oruiuance or .u\\ tiling approaening u. it lifted the IVponsiOlb.y of the alleged salle paittne pai'inei", iiisamt... Wh\" v

i.iu.iiie villi no leg,:, irienu.-., or protector.,., or siipporu-rs; it i u the wayopen lor rnsca.uy, ior a i3 -, a pussiule even u, tin, adwt,.ctu c0a.,1,-, to mr

mule iii ii iti ,t.n iioiues peopiu Who ale nol iu s a,ie-a,i ihu..t...eut thai nas ■■eeu i.oeratiy supporu-d bv high .tuiuontv. * °

Unilf no one viiil gainsay the rca-jon,iolciie.-.s ol U-riuimuiiig a period of mi.-ery Jur persons not happily luaincd. itu on.-., on inc 01.1n.-r liaml, lu c.iiu.,iiv ii.c reasonableness oi ocicuii-.l'.'-lllV deciding tin.. iiLUL-as Oi' Illy two persons lor iimlojjg partnership. Xliu laciUty mil, which dimccs aiu yarned lcgiliini = cs inlidcllly. \\c are al deemed thai uilidcliiy i s u olu against iJi;inu ana human lav,-, bin we ale don,;,' iioihing to make il harder i 0 be niiiiiiilu'ul. in sox mailers «e attach '"ore importance lo tlie „tudy . U id care oi l!i.. louji- animal., tlan'io liie A, the animal lu.unct "1 the human being slill predominates a- ii natural provision for the upkeep ot Hie human race, il behoves us to i'e «s little mealy-mouthed as possible in -peaking ol the most important of all national subjects-ihe pro-creation of a clean, bold, lughly healthy and broad-minded race. The morals ol' a nation are low where the guides of the nation condone laxity.

The population of a country dwindles "I'7'c i»H'i'-cis outraged, and the law "f" k " iU UlL ' ""'i'lances of nature. I ie ; m..rage,avag, ,* at once the n,o,t . I ', ll "; I'callbiest, and the least I'l'ii'lish ot all human beings. u c , |,.,„ "" law. and infidelity usinl'lv """"'• •'' -'"all matter „f to.'nahawk; -O -,:,.,, ,„-eoui:,e,l, lU not a,,h^ 7' :;V'" 1 -" M l " ""''lically cur,, for ''.' Vl'n'r 1 '" U "' s '•""iili-v. The' :,."' I|W "'" '"'-•• on (he whole, the ".'-•'"I and 1,e,( children. .\|avl„ ,„ ; ar T" f, v I,ci; '"--''i liim in .Vhii.mT,''. I '''' '""' '"' >V ''''' ''»'»"l"l.".'Vl,y\'Tinmr«.„r.ri!. S ' worth : -""''' ll«"> Hi- lin,.,i h,,-d of Jersev' '■]'■' ,:l u 'y l»"---c-.,-s or il.y be,t ll„;.|' 'tmermostiat ever »e, v ,-horn

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