MARRIAGE SNOBBERY
SYDNEY MINISTER SPEAKS OUT Alleging tliat church Aveddings were too ol'tcn a mere expression of snobbery, the Rev. W. G. Couglilan, ol' Holy Trinity Church. Kingsford, Sydney, urged a thorough investiga tion of the basis of Christian marriages. In many cases, he said, couples were married in a fashionable church outside their own parish, purely as a means of getting mention in the society columns of the Press, Christian marriage was a sacrament and clergymen should make it plain, he added. Mr Couglilan objected to tlie custom of remunerating members of the clergy who conducted weddings. In Sydney, he said, there Avas no set wedding fee, but some "churches had arbitrarily fixed one. "It is not right that a monetary transaction should be linked up with the sacrament," he declared. "I believe that couples should marry at the Registrar's office. Here, the payment of marriage fees is not out of place. "Then, if couples wish, they may be married in church where the emphasis is upon the sacramental nature of the ceremony.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 154, 1 May 1940, Page 2
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