HOW "OBEY" CREPT IN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 2

HOW "OBEY" CREPT IN.

The resonrches initiated by the Bishop of Oxford into the word "obey" m Uw Marriage !«viee arc lion- nearly complete. Before the Bishop of Lincoln brought, up tho question of the delation of "obey" in Canterbury Convocation, the Ui.si.i6p of Oxford asked Dγ .Perry Beamier, vjettr of St. Mary's, Primrose Hill, to investigate the point. "The Church of England," said' Dr. Dearmor to a representative of tjto "Daily Mail," "is thn only historic church whit-h has unequal voive in its ninrrinsje berviee. The won! 'oboy' is cjtiito «x----ccprtioßai in Christian liturgies. As far as I have- discovered, up to the iliutfienth ceaitnry tliere was no example of unequal vows. Tiro man said what Iho woman said. In <Im> late .Middle Agtm they began to appear m certain' .North German service-books and in certain English ones, but they do not appear in the Roman Catholic book or in those of the Eastern, .the Greek, and the- llnssian creeds. Before tho Reformation there were a number of books in «3o in England; tiio principal were t-iioso of York, Saritm, and fierefoid. tho only ono which containpd the principle of unequal vofrs was that of Sarmn; yet tho Reformers, who wantm to do .away with mediaeval nbuws ndoMcd ibat very one, JCow that- the history -of 'oWy' is known, I do not tnink it has any chance of slandina."

The more Hint is seen of ilio exquisite dancing of Maud Allan, the ntoro its extreme beauty appeals, and like »ro«lv little Oliver :fVist, one can bnt ask for more, more, more. Music taking bodily iorm, youth, jov, awl spring, dance and sway before onr-, and' the rhythm of her movements, the bounty of her poses, ,n-re nothing but slieer joy to scc«, Thorp has never bwm anything like ifc iu Wellington, and to seo iror is to bring before ono all that has ever hec-n read or hoard or dreamt of the golden ago of the world, when Dryads played in the woods and Pan piped among tho roods. That Jliss Allan can reach the depths of desolation and sorrow was shown in the Chopin Funeral March which she gave last night, overpoweringly so, ami no ono who saw it could surel.v be unimpressed b,v the wonder. ful_ dignity, tho heart-broken sorrow, c-ntimg in the nnqneucliabjc triumph of. the spirit over death, which she made so risible.