BIBLE CLASS CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2961, 27 December 1916, Page 4

BIBLE CLASS CONFERENCE

By Telegraph—Press Association. Oamaru, December 26. The New Zealand Presbyterian Bible Class Thirteenth Summer Conference opened to-day at. Christchurch. The Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, chairman or the Local Arrangements Committee, presided, and gave an inspiring address of welcomc. Delegates addresses of welcome wore given by Archdeacon Russell, President of the Ministers Association, and tho Mayor. The Moderator of tho Assembly (Rev R. Ryburn) and tlio Rev. •S- Todd wcro welcomed ou behalf of th© Presbyterian Cliurch. Greetings from members with the Expeditionary Forces were warmly applauded. The delegates total over seven hundred. The conference extends till next Tuesday.

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The marked increase in the crime of bigamy drew a comment from the Recorder in charging the grand jury, at the Old Bailey. "There are no fewer," he said, "than 12 persons charged with bigamy in the present calendar, practically 25 per cent, of all the cases. I cannot help observing that since tho outbreak of war bigamy appears to have greatly increased. The explanation, furnished by some of the cases is that many men who did not livo with their wives wont through the form of marriage with another woman iu order tbafc the latter might draw the separatios allowance given to soldiers' wives."