THE PRIMATE ON EARLY MARRIAGES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1883, 3 July 1888, Page 3

THE PRIMATE ON EARLY MARRIAGES

The Archbishop of Canterbury m opening Oxford Hall. Bethnal Greer, expressed his satisfaction that the work carried on at Oxford Honse— out of whioh the new hall has grown— bod a religious basis In referring to efforts made for the social elevation of the working classes bis Grace Bald that ihe two great evils of Bethnal Grren were drunkenness and early rccklfßS marriage?; Drunkenness w»b an < ffeuce against all mankind, and early reckless marriages were ofT-rces aln_.o-.fc rs great. Early marriages did not appear tn take place amonjj the upper class^a, for he had heard it said that the young men seemed inclined to g've up the idea cf marriage. They put It off until they possessed enough to keep a wife and ohildren. But m his own part of London it almost made his blood run cold to think of the many early marriages. Sometimes he heard In Lambeth Church on a Sunday morning after Easter the lists read ont of the third and the second and the first time of asking So-and-so, and there was au enormous nnmber of minors who did not think it any harm with no means m the wcrld to Bet up and begin to bring a family into tha world. Self-restraint was the road whioh governed both kinds of intemperance. There was only one way by whioh men oould obtain a fair share of God's good things, and that was by the road of dellgence, industry and thrift.