DIVORCE.
VIEWS OF THE WESLEYANS AND THE POSITIVISTS. United Press Association—By Electric Telogiaph—Copyright. LONDON, November 30. The Rev. J. S. Lidgett, giving evidence before the Divorce Commission on bohalf of the Wesleyan Church, said that any change in tho existing law should achieve a strengthening of reverence for the marriage contract. He favoured equality of the sexes. Ho had never known of divorce among Wesleyans. Mr Frederic Harrison, president of the English Positivist Committee, giving evidenco before the Divorce Commission, said that tho Positivist Society was opposed to divorce. It believed that marriage was continued after death, and was indissoluble. It preferred the law as it stood at present.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 7
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