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edge of the finished work of Christ and their testimony is so strikingly clear. Scores of church members who were cold and indifferent have been stirred and the evangelistic spirit of the churches will continue the work begun. REV. STEWART P. MAC LENNAN,, Presbyterian Pastor. THE DIVORCE RATE Los Angeles is rapidly becoming the huh. of the nation with respect to di vorce litigation, according to Superior Judge Charles S. Crail, presiding in one of the divorce departments. Basing this statement on the latest report of the bureau of the United States census, Judge Crail added that responsibility for the conditions must be attributed to the climate of the Southland. The latest report shows that in a year there were 6910 marriages and 1319
divorces in Los Angeles county, or one divorce to every five marriages. But during the same year there were ap proximately 2460 divorce cases filed, every one of which indicated a marriage failure, or one divorce for every three marriages. The number of divorces granted at Reno, Nev., the same year was only 440, or one-third the number granted in Los Angeles. THE WORTH OF TRIALS Horatio Seymour, once governor of New York State said, “If I were per mitted to live my life over again and to put into the new life whatever I would of the old one, I would leave out some of its pleasures hut not one of its trials, difficulties or hard places.” As we look back over our lives in later years we will see that some things that dragged us down to defeat, were strong wings lifting us up to victory.
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