EASIER DIVORCE
BISHOP'S CONDEMNATION OF RECENT PROPOSALS. In his presidential address to the Diocesan, Conference recently the Bishop ol: Southwark dealt with the proposals for the extension of divorce facilities. The Bishop said there wero a certain number of people who were carried away at present by their feelings, and endeavoured to express them in legal statutes. They proposed that separation orders framed by a police magistrate should end in a dissolution of marriage by the mere lapse of time. To regard these orders as if they were meant to dissolve marriage was a truly amazing view. The Church could not accept the view "'hat the marriage relationship was one merely of legal contract, or that tho contract could Le modified or annulled at will.
There was n trade in .this as in other cmintrios, which it was beyond the power or scope of eny law to abolish. It could only ho removed by agencies of a moral and spiritual order, and here the clergy were called on to play their part. He would like to seo the Woolwich crusado reinforced by a flying squadron of some three or four helpers who would be ready to go to any part of the diocese when .hoi]) to asked by the clergy in any district.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 9
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213EASIER DIVORCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 9
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