Editorial March 11, 1905 Issue

An Interesting Symposium

Editor, Mary Baker G. Eddy

The Boston Herald

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 268:1-269:14

The Boston Herald of Sunday, March 5, contained a very interesting symposium based upon President Roosevelt's message on divorce, recently sent to the Senate and House of Representatives. Among the contributors to this symposium were Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Governor Douglas of Massachusetts, Bishop Potter, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, President Henry S. Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rabbi Charles Fleischer, Prof. Arlo Bates, and others. The following article was contributed by Mrs. Eddy:—

The nuptial vow should never be annulled so long as the morale of marriage is preserved. The frequency of divorce shows the imperative nature of this relationship to be losing ground, hence that some fundamental error is engrafted therein. What is this error? If the motives of human affection are right the affections are enduring and achieving. What God hath joined together man may not sunder.

Divorce and war should be exterminated, and on the principle of law and gospel, the maintenance of individual rights, the justice of civil codes, and the power of Truth uplifting the motives of men. Two commandments of the Hebrew Decalogue, namely, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt not kill," obeyed, will eliminate those two flagrant evils. On what hath not a "Thus saith the Lord" I am as silent as the dumb centuries without a living Divina.

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