VICAR DEFENDS HIS ACTION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 120, 7 June 1937, Page 7

VICAR DEFENDS HIS ACTION

-PresB Assn.-

Marriage Ceremony For The Windsors "GdD MOVED ME"

(By Telegraph-

-Copyrisht.)

(Reefeived 7, 1.80 pHi.) LONDON, June 6. St. Paul's Church, Darlington, was packed at evensong when the Rfev. Andersoii Jardinfe, in his sermGh 36clated that the heWSpapfef hfeadiiig: "No Religious Geremony for Windsor" was God's instrumfent, moviitg hira t.o act. "Thfe Duke bf Windsor 's position as & membfer of the Royal Family, aiid his devbted Service tb the EUipiffe fof & quarteir bf a cfentuty, 2hoUid have made such a thing as his marriage without a religious ceremoUy impbssihlb. "Mdreovfer he aiid Miss Wttrfifeld sbiight it,.biit the Duke cbuld find nobody to ofBciate and he w&s overjoyed when he found it pdssible to have his hfeart's desire." Mr. Jardinfe COhtendfed: ' ' The ChUfch feqiiiffes iidthiiig nibre than that the innocent parties sliould ask for a religious service, yet while the chuffeb banned thfe felergy, the whfeelS bf prdVidfenfefe wfere nidving aiid histbry W"as Bfeing made at the Ghateau db Gande; I, an unknown parson, was destined to perfbrin the Cerfeijibny. AH ihe pdwers Of heli cbuld hbt stop the Whfefels bf God turning until he commaUded them to stop. ' ' Thus thfe desire . of an adorable couple haS befeii sutisfled and jjby siud satisfactibn giveii to millionS of people throughout the Empire. Moreover, i believe that I saved the British Government ahd the Aiiglican Ghtirch iUfevitable futUrb rfegrfet th&t had they hdt authorised the religious ceremony. "My action has restored the faith of maiiy ih God and thfe Chttrch." A fiietiibef bf thfe congrfegatibil inaugurated a 100,000 shillihg fiihd for Mr; Jardine;