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Divorce and Moral Decline in New England

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 11, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 35.

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Divorce and Moral Decline in New England

THE ratio of divorce to marriage has been as follows during the last few years in four New England States: Vermont, 1 to 16; Massachusetts, 1 to 23; Rhode Island, 1 to 13; Connecticut, 1 to 10. If Maine and New Hampshire have a like divorce record, the number of couples in the New England States who make a shipwreck of matrimony is about 1,800 annually. This record, which has few parallels in history is only one of the several symptoms of moral decline in New England. Church-going is falling into disuse and religion is neglected. There is no superabundance of religious sentiment of any sort among the professors and students of Harvard and Yale colleges.—Exchange.