;:&2o(Y)en r^Jnreß&B Modern Marriage and Divorce uy EI.LA WHEELER WILCOX • Copyright, 1915. by Star Company. Why the contention, the separations, the ever-Increasing ratio of divorces follow the marriages of to-day? In short, what is the matter with the inodern marriage? There is nothing the njrftter with toiodern marriage. The trouble lies with modern men and women. And there is nothing the matter •with modern men and women, save Igrowing pains. When boys and girls are growing up Ihev lose much of the charm of early childhood and display ungraceful and awkward traits; they do not know •what to do with their hands and feet, and their manners and attitudes are eelf-consclous. They are frequently in the way of their elders. So the men and women who are passing from early immature social conditions to a higher state are simi larly afflicted. They have lost the old repose of ac cepted traditions: they are restless with self-consciousness, and their man ners and emotions cause them to be in their own way and in the way of others. It is often remarked by the pessimist, who feels that the race is going to the wall, that divorce Is a modern evil, and that its frequency to day proves how the human family in .civilized lands has degenerated In two or three generations. Our grandparents regarded divorce fes a disgrace. There was one divorce Jn their day to a hundred in the pres ent time. But that does not mean that there were ninety-nine happy mar riages in those days compared to one in this epoch. More Patient Then It means that men and women bore Iheir marital unhappiness more pa tiently and silently in olden times be fcause it was the custom; and because they dreaded the scandal and reproach which would result if they sought tree- Bom. Women, especially in the days of our fencestora, had not begun to feel grow ing pains. They accepted whatever ills fell to their lot in marriage with a cer tain 'Patient Oriselda" spirit, believ ing it to be woman's sphere in life to Bubmit to man's will in all things. If the man built large, comfortable tmrns for his stock and housed his horses more luxuriously than his fam ily, if he compelled his wife to do her household work under the most trying conditions, if he was niggardly with his money and humiliated her to the dust by making her beg for every penny she spent on her wearing apparel, and then complained of her extravagance, she bore it all without an idea of re belling and told her troubles only to her mother, who advised her to be patient and make the best of the situation. She had little opportunity to com pare her destiny with other lives, as homes were Isolated, methods of travel primitive and newspapers did not lay bare the domestic lives of communities, BS in the present day. 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Woman's work Is in the home, and It was a too generally accepted idea that she was incapable of handling money and that she needed no diver sion, no independent purse and no mental o"tlook beyond the walls of her home rn.l the village church. The type of man who held such Ideas prepared the way for the suf fragists who march through the land to-day. The Puritan Fathers were merciless in their attitude toward a woman who made a misstep In the path of rectitude, and the two stand ards of morals, which made light of the sin of the erring youth and con demned forever the erring girl, helped to bring about the revolt of woman against the established order of things. The silence of mothers on matters ol' sex has paved a broad highway for unhappy marriages, and 'now that women are reading, thinking and ob serving, they dare to stand forth in the light of knowledge and demand cleaner, saner and safer laws to pro tect them from the evils which the old-fashioned wives endured in silent shame and sorrow. It has been the boast of senseless and unthinking mothers, backed by selfish and uncomprehending fathers, that the daughters went to the mar riage altar "as ignorant and Innocent in mind as new-born babes" in matters of sex. It would be just as sensible to boast that a school teacher went to her duties ignorant of reading and writing or a musician ignorant of notes. The misery, the destruction to health and happiness, the wretched ness which has gone into the second and third generations through this Ignorance of girl -wives and mothers regarding the natural laws which gov ern marriage and motherhood would fill volumes. of fathers toward their sens on these great laws of life has aided and abetted selfishness of the masculine nature in relation to women, and the fact that until within a com paratively short period of time all phy sicians were men has been another factor in the building of conditions which, in their time, inevitably pro duced revolt. The report of the "Committee of One Hundred" on health, together with the statistics of the Board of Health of New York and other States, compels the most optimistic mind to realize the menace to the national con servation of vitality which lies in the ignorance of men and women in mat ters of sex hygiene. When men are educated in early youth to understand the Importance of keeping the blood pure and the bodv and mind clean, in order to produce sone, strong children who are men tally and physically a credit to the race, there will be a notable reduction in divorces, and wives and offspring will find less and less need of the surgeon's and physician's skill. PREACHER WHO CAPTURED ARMY Old Intelligence Department Surpassed Secret Service of Present War Tlie International Sunday School Les son For October 24 Is "Elislia's Heavenly Defenders." (By William T. Ellis) Spies and secret agents have bulked large In the present war; but the Sun day School lesson which we are now studying tells a more dramatic tale of an "Intelligence department" than any w tiieiT*. Also It narrates a cap ture more spectacular than any Inci dent of the day's wor'.d war. Most im portant of all, the lesson is a timely reminder that when conditions seem hopeless, when force and evil appear to be having their ruthless way, God still has unexpected resources, which turn seeming evil into great good. In this day, when there is added to a world war the worst persecution of Christians that has been witnessed for a thousand years, with atrocities rival ing those of Nero and Diocletian, the comfort of this Old Testament story is precious. The Bible episode which forms the lesson deals with the invasions or Israel by the King of Syria, and how they were thwarted by the watchful ness and knowledge of the Prophet Ellsha, until at last, in a climax, the man of God, with his heavenly help ers, led the whole Syrian army cap tive. Who Is the Spy? Somebody was revealing all the military secrets of Syria concerning Israel. Whenever the king planned a foray into the territory of the Jews, he found that they were fore warned of it. So he suspected a spy in his councils. He was in the plight of more than one of the great military commanders of our own day, whose plans have been revealed pre maturely by the secret service of the enemy. Baffled again and again, the King of Syria demanded that the spy be pointed out. Whereupon . one of his shrewdest lieutenants reported that the in former was no spy at all, but Elisha, the prophet and seer, who was able to understand even the secret whispered in the king's harem. Knowing no other argument than force, the Syrian king joined that large company of men in all ages who have sought to com bat spiritual things by material might, and he ordered an army sent against Elisha In the little town of Dothan. Hunting the Preacher With Chariots Then followed a great spectacle— a host of soldiers, with horses and chariots, sent out to hunt down one lone man of God! That was a com pliment worth having. Brother Elisha. And you, too, Mr. Present-Day Preacher, when the liquor men de fame you and try to blow up your house or waylay you on a dark night —count it far more of a tribute than anything the mothers in Israel mav say about your sermons. Let us not pity the man who has made the forces of unrighteousness his active enemy; pity, rather, the Christian minister who has never raised a growl or a yelp from the evil pack. Elisha was unrufTled by the army he knew to be advancing. Not so his sen-ant. When that young frcan arose «arly one morning ana, with the sleep scareelv out of his eyes, saw the city of Dothan en tirely surrounded by Syrian soldiers, he collapsed in panic. "Alas, my mas ter! how shall we do!" Right in the midst of alarms, with the Syrian cohorts on every hand, Elisha took time to preach to his helper a sermon—the sermon which most of us need to hear. "Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." 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Nor hear the sound of silver wings low beating through the hush of night! There are who like the seer of old Can see the helpers God has sent, And how Life's rugged mountain side Is white with many an angel tent. * —Whittier. Blinded by the dazzling light of heaven, the Syrian host was captured by Elisha, and led to Samaria, where, instead of slaying them, as was the usage of the time, the prophet re stored their sight, fed them, and sent them back to Syria, as messengers of magnanimity. The Preacher as a Prophet What Elisha did for his tatherland is what a legion of preachers and priests are doing on the battlefields of Europe to-day. He gave his best to his country. He served his own time. No cloistered recluse was Tie. Whatever touched the welfare of his people concerned him. The king on the throne of Israel was not a man according to Elisha's taste, but he was king, and so the prophet upheld him, even at the risk of his own head. Out of this, and the other Old Testament stories which we are now studying, there should come afresh the " message of the high and holy character of patriotism. There never was n better time than now for in culcating Into youth the truth that loyalty to country is the second high est obligation of mortal, only loyalty to God Himself taking precedence of it. In every Sunday School class, and in every church and school, there should be a cult of patriotism, thai our people may rightly understand and support the nation. We need patriotic prophets even more than we need patriotic soldiers. Do thy part Here in the living day, as did the great Who made old days Immortal! Serving the State anew by virtuous lives; Guarding the country's honor as' their own. And their own as their country's and their sons'; Defying leagued fraud wltl. single truth; Not fearing loss; and daring to be pure. —Richard Watson Gilder. This is a time for patriotism, and for praying patriotism at that. Like Elisha, we should be driven to our knees by the great emergency of our time. If the present world situation does not set to praying, what conceivable conditions can do ao? A sense of our divine allies is our greatest need. Simple reliance upon God is our only recourse. "Not by might nor by power, hut by my Spirit, sal'h the Lord of Hosts." The Vaster Strategy Pertinent as powerful comes this message from ancient Israel's his tory, of the help that the hosts of heaven extend to the needs of eartti. Our present danger is that we shall Idee God out of our world. The crushing and incomprehensible con ditions abroad, which are breaking our hearts, are fairly robbing some souls of their faith in God. Yet we cannot forget that now, as ever in the past. God's strategy is vaster than earth's. His purposes are larger than our .perceptions. "What I do now thou knowest not, but thou Shalt know, hereafter." A large world of love, of brother hood, of a new social order, will surely emerge from the earth's present social chaos. Myriads of disciples of the Cross in the land we call holy believe that Christianity is being extermi nated: for the hosts of unbelief seem invincible, and they have already slain approximately half a million Christian women and children. Surely there is some inconceivably great purpose ot God to he worked out, if this is the cost of it. Let us pray for open eyes and remember the heavenly hosts. "Thrice blest is he to whom is given. The instinct which can tell, That God is on the field. When He is most invisible." Many Examinations For Civil Service to Be Held The United States Civic Service Commission announces the following: competitive examinations to be held in Harrisburg. 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