MARRIAGE IDEAL MENACED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4572, 14 November 1935, Page 1

MARRIAGE IDEAL MENACED.

The “new morality” and the modern menace to the Christian ideal of family life were discussed at the concluding session of the Church of England Congress at Bournemouth last month. Mrs Theodore Woods, widow of a former. Bishop of Winchester, said that the world of today challenged the Clmstian ideah' of marriage. “To people who set before themselves comfort and a good time,” she said, “it seems foolish, unattractive, narrow, too hard to follow. Human nature, they say, has changed. So, the law of marriage being too hard for these days, cut out, they say, a bit here and there; east it aside when it cannot he made to fit; when love has gone there is nothing left, and those who make a failure of one marriage ought to be able to try another. But if marriage is undertaken with this proviso it often means that differences of opinion develop into quarrels, incompatibility, separation.” After" ref erring to the wide practice and abuse of birth control, Mrs Woods asked: “Will not this assembly sound a call to find a solution so that this rottenness at the heart of our nation’s life can be eradicated?”