MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND
PRELIMINARY TRAINING SUGGESTED
PRESBYTERIAN REPORT ON MORALITY
(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, May 8. A report on religion and morals presented to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in London stated that the position of public morality in England was “ still very serious.” “Not only are intemperance and gambling rife, while succeeding Governments are afraid to act because of their promoters and patrons, but there is obviously a decline in honesty, in act and word, and a decline in respect for human life,” added the report.
On marriage and the family, the report said the present situation demanded that the Church should reconsider not only its attitude towards' divorce, but also its attitude to marriage and the family. Some training was advocated for marriage and the responsibilities of parenthood to be included In societies for adolescents within the Church.
Dr. David Mace, of the Marriage Guidance Council, said that one In every four first babies born in England and Wales was conceived outside marriage. Forty per cent, of all the girls under 20 in England and Wales were pregnant on their wedding day. We were going through a colossal Slide from chastity, and the most Serious defects of unchastity were its effects on marriage. The Marriage Guidance Council had come to the con-
elusion that the five main reasons for the growing disintegration of family life were social and economic changes, the new status of women in modern society, the new scientific attitude towards sex, the decline in religious faith and worship, and the upheaval of our time. Proposals to abolish the £5O bonuses granted annually to ministers of the Presbyterian Church of England during the war, and to guarantee instead a minimum basic rate of stipend at £3OO a year, plus manse or manse allowance, were accepted. The present minimum is £250 plus manse or manse allowance. The new minimum will come into operation next January, at the same time as a new method of estimating the minimum aid from aidgiving congregations, proposals for which were also accepted.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 2
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