CHURCH AND DIVORCE.
BISHOP’S ADDRESS. The Church of England's attitude to divorce was defended by the Bishop of Coventry (Rt. Rev. M. G. Haigh) in his presidential address at the Diocesan Conference. “It would encourage a sense of proportion,” he declared, “if people remembered that only one marriage in every hundred ends in divorce. La.mheth” Conferences covering half a century have approved the admission of divorced persons to the Sacrament. It is not the Bishops, but critics, who are proposing an important change in the established practice. The sermon, ‘not to judge,’ has still its meaning, and the parable of the tares and the wheat lias still its message. T do not forget the necessity for a wedding garment. but we ought not to be too precise about the cut.”
The reference is to a parable of Jesus (Matthew 22, 2, 11 and 12): “The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son.” “And when the king came in to see the guests he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment.” “And he said unto him, ‘Friend, how come6t thou in hither not having a wedding garment?’ And he was. speechless.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 10
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203CHURCH AND DIVORCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 10
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