STRANGE DIVORCE
RELIGIOUS MANIA
BAPTISMS IN THE BATH-ROOM
LONDON, Oct. 23. There were curious revelations of religions mania in the Divorce Court when Airs Kirke, of Ascot, petitioning for a judicial separation, gave evidence that when her husband joined the Pentecostal sect her home life was disturbed by baptisms _ in the bath-room and girls falling into trances in the drawing room, ..where they had visions from heaven. Finally her nurse girl, Alartlia McCarthy, came under Kirke’s influence. Martha and petitioner’s husband were closeted together every evening, Kirke saying that Alartlia was helping him in his religious work. When the husband left home with Martha he asked his wife to come to the new house on condition that she treated Alartlia properly. Kirke • wrote: “Had. you been less offensive and more ready to believe God’s word means what it savs. we might, at least be keeping house together. Martha.is not having a smooth time. She is up at 630 arxl even washes my shirts. If I had not left you I should have passed to a better world before this.” Tlie judge granted a decree.—A. and N.’Z.O.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9846, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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186STRANGE DIVORCE Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9846, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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