CHURCH AND DIVORCE
Presbyterian Attitude
THE REMARRIAGE QUESTION
A long report on the attitude of the Presbyterian Church to marriage and divorce, especially the marriage of divorced persons, is to be presented to the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church, to be opened in Dunedin to-morrow. In an effort to reach finallty on the question, the different presbyteries tliroughout the country have been encouraged in the past 12 months to discuss the matter, but the report states that these discussions have revealed the sharpest and* most extreme ditference of opinion on all aspects of the Church' s attitude to the matter. "The only clear result, '» states the convener of the committee which dealt with the question, the Eev. J." A. Allan, "is that it is evident that the Church decisively rejects the proposal to adopt a set of rules which might be regarded in any way as rigidly binding on ministers in relation to the remarriage of divoroed person?. This proposal must hc> regarded as definitely abandoned,"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 5
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