thru the ‘‘River and
Harbors
Com-
mittee’’ generally
are
approached
very slowly and
cautiously.
In the
meantime
it is felt that
this
pro-
perty
should
be put
to some
com-
mendable
use
and purpose.
The Chairman remarked:
As this s
in-
troduced
as
a Resolution
it is necessary
to
take the
vote
as to
whether
-it
should
be adopted at
one
discussion.
2nd Appointed Member (Noll)
propos-
ed that the resolution
be adopted
at
one
one
discussion.
¢
2nd
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
In view
of the importance
of the
eso-
iution
I mova
that
it
be
treated
as
an
ordinance
aud that three
discussions
be
hand
on it.
The
Chairman
put the proposal
to the
vote.
6 members
voted for; 4 against.
The
Chairman
remarked:
The
motion
1s
carried.
Ist
Discussion
is
therefore
opened.
Despatching
Secretary
(Commander
Colby) remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.
Gov-
ernment
does.
not feel
that il]}s necess-
ary
to draw
furth® attentio®
to the
re-
marks
as
they
are
.
.
on the
bill.
The object
of the
« .
15 {o
establish
a
training school
on Pibtestant
Cay for in-
corrigible
girls
and
this
Council
has
the
assurance
of Government
that
this
school,
if put
»n
Protestant
Cay,
will in
no
way interfere
with the
contempiated
improve
ent
so
Christiansted
harbor.
Attention
1s also
called
to the
faert
that
unless
scmething
definite
is accomplish-
ed
at this meeting
in this connection,
the
bitl will
} ave
to go
over until
the
16 day
of
August
which
is
the
next
ordinary
meeting
of
the Council;
unless
a special
meeting
should
be called
by the
Chair-
man.
%
(To be contig% u.)
A very pretty
wedding
took
piace
last
evening
at
Elim
Church,
Frederiksted,
when
the
Revd.
CHARLES
S.
MAYHEwW
was
united
in marriage
to
Miss
VIOLET
R,
KpLLY of
.Barbaaos,
.B.
W.
L.
The
ceremony
was
performed
by Revd.
J. R.
Mayhew, brother or the Bridegroom,
the
Bride
being
given
away
by
the Revd.
S.
T.
Burns,
missionary
st
that
end.
while Mr. Chr.
Jacobs
acted
as Best Man.
To
the
happy
couple
we beg
to tender
our hearty
congratulations
with all good
wishes
for a long and happy union.
The editor of this
paper
has
been
ask-
ed bv
one of
the
committee
to announce
that
a
mass
meeting
is
called
for this
evening
8
o’clock
at
the
Christiansted
Theatre
for the
puyrpose of hearing pub
lic
opinion
on
the
proposition
to estab-
lish
a reformatory
.or incorrigible girls
on
Protestant
Quay
in
the
harbor
here
and,
it
is
feared,
likely
to
obstruet
the
imor vements
looked for at this port
/34
UROL&
A VIS
Correspondence
On Divorce.
@
@hristiansted,
St. Croix, V. I. July 12,
1920.
Editor St. Croix Avis:—
Nofng the
absence
from
the
ca-
blegrams published
in
your esteemed
pa-®
per,
of a dispatch from
New York
read-
ing as follows, you
are kindly requested
to
publish that and
the accompanying
arti-
cle
on
t
e subject
of divorece,
the
latter
emanating
froma brain,
the
kind
that
would make
this poor little islad
a
para-
dise could it produce
but one such
to each
hundred
of its inhabitants:
The
text
of
the
New
York
dispuitch
follows:
New York, July 9th. --The inauguration
ofa campaign_
for
a
Federal
Constitu-
tional
amendment
making
divorce
im-
possible
in the iinited States
was announc-
ed today by the
Rev.
Dr. Walter Gwynne,
General
Secrerary
of the Society
for
the
uphoiding of
the
sanctity
of marriage.
A
vigorous
propaganda
will be
~arried
on,
said Dr. Gwynne,
10 extend
the
mem-
bership
of
the
organization
to
every
Christian
denominadon
in
the
United
States and
ministers
of every
creed
will
be urged
to refuse
to
perform
the
mar-
riage
ceremony
for any
person
that
has
b
A
e 3
The article
above
referred
to
and
on
the
subject
of which
correspondence
is
invited, reads
thus:
““The world for the most
part
is
ruled
hy the tomb,
and
the living are
tyranniz-
ed
over
by
the
dead.
Old
ideas,
long
after
the
conditions
under
which
they
were
produced
have passed
away,
often
persist
in surviving.
Many are
disposed
to worship the ancient-—to
follow the old
paths,
without inquiring
’here they lead,
and
whithout
knowing
e¢xactly
where
they wish
to go
themseives.
Upinions on
the subject
of divoree
have
been,
for the
most
part.,
inherited
from
the
early
Christians,
They
have
come
tp
us
through
theological
and
priestiy
channels.
The early Christians
believed
that
the world
was about
to be des._royed,
or that it was
to be purified by
fire:
that
all cthe wicked
were
to
perish,
and
that
the good
were
to
be
caught
up
in
the
alr to meet
their
Lord-to
remain
there,
in
ali
probability,
until
the
earth
was
prepared
as
a
habitation
for
the
bless-
ed.
With
this
thought
or
balief
in
their
minds,
the
things of
this
world
were
O
comparatively
no
import-
ance.
Thne
man 'who built
larger
barns
in whieh
to
store
his grain
was regarded
as
a foolish
farmer,
who
had
forgotten,
in
his,
greed for gain,
the
value
of
his
own “scul.
Tney
regarded
prosperous
people
as
the children of Mammon,
and
the
untfortunate,
the
wretched
and
di-
seased,
as
the
favorites
of
(God
They
discouraged
all wordly
pursuits,
except
the
soiiciting
of® alms.
There
was
no
time
to marry
or be
given
in marriage;
nec time
to build homes
and
have families.
All
their
thoughts
we®
centered
upon
the
heaven
they
expz=cted
to
inherit.
Rusiness,
love,
ail
secular
things,
fell
into disregute.
Nothin®is saiu
in the Testament
about
the families
of the
apostles;
nothing
of
family life,
of the sacredness
of
home:
nothing about
the necessity
of education,
the improvement
and
development
of the
mind.
These
things
were forgotten,
for
the
reason
tha
nothing,
in the
preserce
of the expected
event.
was
considered
of
any importance,
except
to be ready
when
the Son of Mar
should
come.
Such
was
the
feeling,
that
rewards
were
offered
by
Christ
himself
to
those
who
would
desert
their
wives and
children.
Human
love was
spoken
of with comtempt.
‘‘let
the dead bury
their dead.
What
is
that
to
thee?
Follow
thou
me.””
They
not
only believed
rthese
things,
but
acted
in
accordance
with them:;
and®
as
a
conse-
quence,
all
the
relations
)f
lite
were
denied
or avoided,
and
their
obligations
disregard=d.
Marriage
was
discour-
aged.
It was regarded
as
only
one
de
oree above
open and
unbridled
vice,
and
was allowed
only in consideration
of hu-
man weakness.
It was
thought far bet.
ter hot
to
marry-that
it
was
something
grander fora man
to luove
God
than
tc
love woman.
The exceedingly godly, the
really spiritual,
believed
in cehibucy,
and
held
the opposite
sex
in
a kind of pious
abhorrence.
And qyvet,
with that
incon-
sistency
so
characteristic
of theologians,
marriage
was
heild
to be
a
sacrament.
The priest
said
to the
man who
married:
"'Remember
that you
are caught
for iife.
This
door
opens
but
once.
Before
this
den
of matrimony
the
tracks
are
all
one
way.
Ilns
wßs
n
the
nature
of
a
panishment
for
having
married.
The
theologian
felt that the contract
of
mai-
riage,
if not contrary
to God’s command,
was
at
least
contrary
to his
advice,
and
that the
married
cught
to suffer
in
some
way,
a mvier of justice.
The fact
that
there
could
*no divorce.
that
a mistake
could
nor
be corrected,
was
held
up
as
2
warning.
At
every
weodding
feast
this
skeleton
stretched
its
fleshless
finger
towards bride and groom.”’
To be continuee.
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