DECEASED' WIFE'S SISTER

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 7

DECEASED' WIFE'S SISTER

;' : -0 j ARCHBISHOP'S '■'' •'.' bt Tm.EqitArH—ritEsa association— corxnioitT. (Bee. Oct. 31, 10.18 p.m.), - : ;T London) October 3i:. ' .-.Viscount Halifax, President of tho English Church Union, has communicated to tho Archbishop of Canterbury and othor Bisliops J a manorial signed ; by. nqarly. 10,000 ; clergy relative to tho Deceased: Wifd's'Sistor' Act'. , The Archbishop, replying, informed Viscount Halifax that ho porsonally^hnd'tried to'act in a way to best servo the highest. intorosts ol ! the Church, and of the Realm, Lord Halifax, as . President^'of f.ho English Church Uriiqn, j ronresefnts.-tho- High' Church ,, party. He,has, tnldm : >.a:.ver,yt.. active".part- ; in the opposition to the passing of tho Act' legalising marriago with n deceased wife's sister. Tho Archbishop's reference "to tho Church' anil realm is lio'do'ubt' n'artlyVdiio to. the fact that tho Bishops have boon accused 'of- disloyalty in not accepting an Act. of Parliament,. but (hey contend'' that in ..this matter : \they''are bound to .obey the law of the' Church. liv this ; connection the " Guardian.'.' ■. recently stated that "if somb of the -fears ■ of;'what isnow likely to happen aro exaggerated; wo cannot doubt that, as the Primate put it in his calm, dignified, nml impressive speech on the-third reading, ' immense difficulties and perplexities lie ahead.' The position in which the Church of England is placed Ms one of- thn'oxtreinest' difficulty and the utmost delicacy.'"