DIVORCE AND THE CLERGY.
THE STATE AND CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 2. The Church Congress is at sixes and sevens over the question of divorce. During a debate yesterday the Rev. H. Hensley Henton, Canon of Westminster, said there was real danger that the inexorable attitude of the Anglican clergy might alienate from the Christian viewpoint the reason and conscience of the people. He declared that a modern State avowedly non-religious might have a clearer vision of the right application of Christian principles to the marriage problem than Christian society itself. The Bishops of Southampton and Lewes stood firmly for the indisolubility of marriage. Dean Welldon advocated the same social and political law for the adulterer as for the adulteress. The Bishop of Winchester confessed that the debate was disappointing and unsatisfactory.
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Northern Advocate, 3 October 1913, Page 5
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