MARRIAGE SERVICE
GIVING AWAY THE BRIDE “AN OBSOLETE CUSTOM” The new form of marriage service * the revised Prayer Book has b*' generally welcomed by women ® > land. Miss Florence Underwood, secrete of the Women’s Freedom “The alteration, making for equality between the man and is what we in the women's mo'' have been working for for a vw time.” Mrs. K. M. Hubback. l tary secretary of the National Lni Societies for Equal Citizenship, they welcomed the changes. gj. Miss A. Samuel, secretary of ; point Group, said they were delighted to hear of any fr . were likely to establish any * sacramental equality between tne Miss Maude Rovden said:— . “I think it shows an advance, and makes one hope will be received without m<H [Lonfl: Naturally, I feel especially about the marriage service. vv tr _-,Ef greeting that the obsolete and **~*tfst less custom of giving away has appaiently been retained, 1 r the alteration in the ‘cause r ,fiti matrimony was ordained,' to^et^ e dipßr the omission of the avowal of o on the part of the wife, lift 3 » service to a higher plane and _ which civilised people— both m ' women—will be in more perfect j
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 3, 25 March 1927, Page 14
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196MARRIAGE SERVICE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 3, 25 March 1927, Page 14
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