THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND DIVORCE.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Wellington, this day. At the Anglican Synod to-day Archdeacon Fancourt, in referring to tho Divorce Bill recently rejected in the Legislative Council, said the Bill contained a clause whereby, had ib become law, the grounds on which divorce mighb have been obtained would have been extended to a number of /other things than adultery. Thnb would have placed the law of the land in direct opposition to the law of the Church and the law of God. It would likewise have opened the door to all manner of collusion, and would have tended to sap the very foundations of society. Happily, it was thrown out,' or ib would havo met with the strongest opposition from the Church, if nob from the whole Christian community. As it was constantly taken for granted that what the State had made lawful was regarded by tbe Church as lawful, he took this opportuity of stating that. the Church did not regard divorce as setting either a man or. a woman free to marry again, and that no clergyman was at liberty to solemnise such a marriage, nor to soiemnino marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 248, 17 October 1894, Page 5
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202THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND DIVORCE. Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 248, 17 October 1894, Page 5
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