A DRUNKEN BRIDEGROOM

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 11 August 1911, Page 6

A DRUNKEN BRIDEGROOM

The president of the Methodist Conference, Rev. A. McCallum, at the Wesley Church, Melbourne, delivered an address entitled "The Church and "the Marriage Question." He il ustrated the deplorable levity with which so many young people treated whit should be the most solemn moments of their lives, by narrating an experience of his own, in which he had been flippantly asked to "run the thing -over in the house," because the bridegroom was too drunk to attend the ■church. He had refused, but he regretted the day that some disgraceful man in a black coat was found willing •for the sake of a fee to thus degrade ibis holy office as a minister.