MORAL IDEALS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 October 1922, Page 8

MORAL IDEALS.

—♦ I QUESTIONS BY CLERGYMAN ' . i TOO MANY DIVORCES. | *I CIBLE--PfiESS ASgOeiA.TIOK-€OtYai<lSl ■» Heceived Oct. 19, 9.30 a.m LONDON, Oct. 18. • The Rev. R. F. Horton, speaking at the international conference on "The Reaffirmation of the World's Moral Ideay" declared that while Western civilisation for many centuries had adopted -monogamy as an axiom, it is to-day violated in practice and disputed in theory. Mr, Horton asked: 'Is it to be monogamy or polygamy? Has marriage any sactity or not? Would it be better to .marry on trial and serve $-novitiate before entering into per-. *_nahent vows? "Would the unpledged relations lasting during mutual consent avoid the frictions of marriage and save, the world from the disgusting details of the divorce courts?" —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. -—w- " i