MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED'S WIFE SISTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1903, Page 4

MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED'S WIFE SISTER.

MSOOBBION AT SYDNEY SYNOD. The Melbourne Argus, in a recent issue, says:- 11 A no'able decision in regatd to the ecclesiastical aspect cf marriage was reached !ut*.ly by the Synod of the Anglican Diccase of Sydney. '■ he previous Syncd l :i\ appointed a committee to consider and riport upon tho subject of marriage with a deceased wife's bister. This committee reported that (1) the fabe cf kirdied and fcffinity is not s. part of the prayer bock; (2) thit the marriage cf a {er. on with his deceased wife'? fcister itt valid in this Stitt ; (3) that mch mariif-ge is not prohibited by t!;o Holy Scriptures ; anJ (4) that neithcthe cor.Uvcticg Dor tho cekbre.tion of such mariiage is ia contravention of any 'aw of tho Church It gaily binding in this State. "The debate disdosed considtrabl difference of f pinlf i', but in the end s motion for the adoption of therepcit was carried by a large majority. So the p. sit ion ia that the ol 'est dioc . so - the Parnate's dioee e—of the Church of England in Australia bus formally declared that such marriage is rot prohibited by the Christian r ligion. Within that diocese f.ny momber of that denomination niny contract or any citrgyman celebrate m.h a in niage uiii'.n without incurring ectk'siastiCbl disp'ejsure. Any condemnation whirl) might have b<en supposed to fxibt in the past is cow auth< ly an-null-d. OF a urse, tfae icdividu 1 convictions cf dergyi! e •> »re nit m crfered with; thy m;i.' r. l'us 1 t) ctlr-j brat a fiich marr.ag t if' he rcotis.-i.-nfe j aodirects ; bu : , th ye nno 1 iilo l> .-e their rtfuial upon the Chord's d>iapprov^l. " i'ha lay memVera of th-.» Syctd we e mostly in favour of r an;, disability or oispWfcmv. O ie c.f them, cutting io tho very heart of thj question, £sked whether the Synod were prepared to take the ' awful responsibility ' of applying to such marriages the that ought to be stamp d upon them if the CLurch's sanction is x withheld."