WORKERS AND DIVORCE.
'"; NO DESIRE FOE INCREASED FACILITIES. Giviug_ evidence before tho Divorce Commission, tho Rev. E. Gordon Savile, secretary of the Church of Eng-land-Men's Society, which has a membership of over 100,000 churchmen, said: — . . . "One branch submitted that rather than make divorce easier for the poor, the commission should make it harder for tho rich, and many branches in the poorer quarters declared that there was no desire on- the part of tho working classes for increased divorce facilities. _ Father Michael Kelly, of St. Monica's Priory, Hoxton, said tho Catholic poor did not- desire greater facilities for divorce. The Rev. J. Scott Lidgett, ex-presi-dent of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, said divorce or. separation was so extremely, rare among Methodists as to bo practically unheard of." In tho .whole of his-long experience he had •'never seen a case of divorce or separation between: Wesleyan Methodists. If any cnanges in the existing law were brought about, it should bo with tho object of securing in actual practice tho strengthening and not-the weakening of reverence for the marriage contract
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 4
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177WORKERS AND DIVORCE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 4
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