“UNIVERSAL DIVORCE.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1739, 11 October 1917, Page 2

“UNIVERSAL DIVORCE.”

IN his sermon at a special .service in connection witli the,day oi‘ national prayer, held at -the Human Catholic Cathedral at Christchurch on Sunday, Bishop Brodie, after reviewing the progress ot the war. said: “Coining’ to our own Dominion, onr legislators arc grappling with questions of great importance. For example, (here is the question of pensions for the men of the Second Division. But did they ever give a thought to the magnitude of (lie Second Division question ilseif.’ Whether they are justilied in insisting on this universal divorce.’ Whether the infinitesimally small help r!ie Second Division men can give (ho Empire will compensate for -the irreparable harm (ho loss of these men will cause to the moral and social life of lids Dominion ! And whether the Empire, in her desire to avenge injustice, would require her youngest Dominion to deplete her strength by such a. sacrifice which would reduce her mothers lo (he state of widowhood and would render her children fatherless'/ fhe question of pensions may he important, but Ihe main quest ion is one of transcending magnitude. In such a matter onr statesmen, arc face to face with a problem which must he approached with the strictest conscientiousness and with a desire to do the best for the welfare of the Empire and onr Dominion.”