A Strong Indictment.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 60, 5 September 1894, Page 3

A Strong Indictment.

We (Ohristchnreh Press) are credibly informed that the Eev. Mr Pascoe, in a sermon on Sunday last in the Chnstchurcb Cathedral denouncing Mr Mac GregorN Divorce Bill, made a rery startling statement. That statement was to the effect that if the law were altered so that women could obtain divorces from their husband* on the same grouud as theme for which husbands can get divorces from ih'pir wire* it would l*>»ve the do >r open to the dissolution of half the marriages in Christchurch. In plain English if our information is correct, this reverend gentleman told his hearers, many of whom we suppose, were young women, that more than half of the Cbristchurch husbands are adul:erers. We hare uo hesitation in characterising this statement, if made as a wicked calumny We say further that no one but a parson with a diseaoed appetite for sensationalism would have made such a statement be» lore an audience of young girls, unless he was possessed of positive evidence that it was true. We can only wonder that the restraints of conveutiooali>m were sufficiently strong to prevent men from giving utterance to their indignation in the Cathedral No mau could have made such a charge without angry contradiction outside of a charch