MISS ROYDEN AND DIVORCE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19312, 17 May 1928, Page 11

MISS ROYDEN AND DIVORCE.

. /V TO THE EDITOR OF TUB PRESS. • Sir,—During the recent session of General Syiiod, tho Dominion , Council of the Mothers' Union, Avith the* full approval and support "of their * President, the Lady Alice Fergusson, • Presented a memorial -on the_ subject , ®f. divorce.. 1 In that memorial it is "•ted that separation leaves the doer for reconciliation, whereas divorce < it. The English figures, collected {[ Beatrix Lvall, snow that Vont two-thirds of separated couples towe together iigain. The memorial •Iso quotes the statement of an Ame«ir ®PP rem . e Court Judge: My 'experience has proved to me * *Uat divorce is undermining the whole structure of society. The only way to thq evils of divorce is to abolish A? rCO entircl y-" Then the memorial "We should do all in our power * jn this country towards tho tighten- ' rather than the loosening of the ®Wnage tie." This memorial was ; to General , Synod a few tli* « B ®°* Further more, it is claimed ' + " Jn the expression of our views ?S- , subjects wo have been assured iuv» I by his Grace, the Archbishop •» ® Bishops of the province of * B £ m P a thy and support.'' above facts. Sir, should be ffi" ' n v * e ? r ss Royden's re- - regarding divorce as reported 1 '^ u *. In making those remarks she * i BB ?*s r€s sin» her own personal opinw as in no sense reflecting the •Uitiide or the teaching -A the An«li.urc'l - As Miss Royden has '•••'j®®. e " ,l ' the Cathedral, and generally > " j*? l identified with Anglicanism, it is . jv*'' that the nosition should be made „ plain, —Yours, etc., - ~ CHURCHMAN