“WILD OATS”

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1921, Page 7

“WILD OATS”

BISHOP ON LAX MORAL VIEWS. “Am I misrepresenting public opinion generally when I say that it is the prevailing opinion that every young man will sow his wild oats?” asked the Bishop of London in an address on the resolutions passed by the Lambeth Conference in relation to the problems of marriage. It was urged, he said, by many that they could not expect a young man to live a pure life. Young men were encouraged to purchase parcels of prophylactics. Some went as far as to say they must not be too hard on a man for one or two lapses’ after his marriage. It was also urged that marriage was all right so long as the two parties “got on together”; if they did not it became a farce, and as soon as possible they should obtain a divorce. The resolutions of the Lambeth Conference sought to combat such dangerous doctrines and enunciated the true Christian spirit. “I cannot understand,” said the bishop, “why you do not take more interest in the’ Public Morality Council and try to put down bad plays, and consider the problem of open spaces. I daresay some of you respectable people have no idea what goes on in some oi these open spaces of London. The idea that marriage is a kind of licensed prostitution is one of those horrible ideas that we must fight against. ‘No marriage should take place in the Church if the former husband or wife is still alive. In half the divorces that, take place there is collusion, and the jteika * juukjfisjft: