King's Business - 1945-01

TH E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S

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T HERE will be more “ broken homes” in America in 1945 than in any other year in the nation’s history! This may seem like a dire prediction, but it is a fact. Both good and evil, however, are involved. One type of “broken homes” that we will have, we may well be proud of. I mean the patriotic firesides from which have gone the eleven million or more of our youth to the defense of homeland and of our Christian faith. Every window from which shines a service star, reveals a “broken home,” and there will be more than ever of these in the year to come. It is tragic, but nonetheless true, that hundreds of thousands of these homes will be forever “broken," because the bloodiest fighting of the war is at hand. Without any doubt, during 1945, our country, along with the other al­

lies, will be at close grips with both Germany and Japan in their home­ lands. This means a dreadful slaugh­ ter before victory and final peace. Well may the prayers of all of us go up to Almighty God for His comforting care during the troublous days to come. Glimpse of Homes in America While we may well be proud of the homes “broken” by the absence of our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, scattered over the far-flung battlefields of the world, we can only be ashamed - of those other “broken homes” which will exist in 1945. I speak of the house­ holds where family life has gone on the rocks through jealousy, infidelity, drunkenness, hatred, selfishness, pa­ ganism, or other sin. The harvest of death has long been

under way in the home life of Amer­ ica, but never has the reaping been as evilly fruitful as it is today. Within the lifetime of this writer, the divorce rate in this country has been as low as one divorce out of fifty marriages. Now in many parts of America, one marriage out of every four goes on the rocks, and, believe it or not, we have two or three cities in which there are as many divorces granted as there are wedding geremonies performed! Promi­ nent authorities say that there will be a tragic increase in divorces after the war, and they predict that, if the pres­ ent rate of increase in home smash- ups in America continues, by 1962 there will be a divorce to match every marriage! • As one stands on the side lines and watches the marriage procession go

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