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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 10

STEPMOTHER DEFINED. "Mammy, dear , said little Matty, "what ia a stepmother?" "Why, Matty," replied has mother, "were I to die, and your dad should marry again, the lady would be a stepmother." "Oh, I see," remarked Matty; "you'd step out and she'd step in," "That's it." "Even in the darkest hour of earthly ill woman's fond affection grows.— Sand. people object to the wording of the marriage service," said the Rey. A. Thomson, in the course of a sermon at the Petone Presbyterian Church. "They do not think tha/t woman should have to swear to obey man; and I am told that sometimes this oatb has been •mitted ,or altered 1 , and the service then proceeded with. I would lot proceed •with a marriage service under such a circumstance. For the man is the head of the woman, in the same way that Chir&t is the (Head df the Christian Church; therefore, woman must feel that she is called upon to obey." The subject of the preachers sermon was "The obedience of love."