CALLING-UP THE MARRIED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16665, 9 October 1917, Page 4

CALLING-UP THE MARRIED.

"UNIVERSAL DIVORCE." i \ BISHOP BRODIE'S ATTITUDE. [FT TELEGRAPH.OWN CORBESPOKIIEXT.] CHRiSTCHUECH, Monday. In his sermon at a special service in connection with the day of national prayer, held at the, Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday, Bishop Brodie, after reviewing thit progress of the war, said : " Coming to our own Dominion, our legislators are grappling with questions of great importance. For example, there is the question of pensions for the men of the Second Division. But did they ever give thought to the magnitude of "the .Second Division question itself? Whether they ara justified in insisting on this universal divorce? Whether the infiniteßimally small help the Second Division men can give the Empire will compensate for the irreparable harm the loss of these ,men will cause to the moral and'social life of this Dominion? And whether the Empire,. in her desire to avenge injustice, would require her youngest Dominion to cfeplete her strength by such a sacrifice which would reduce her mothers to the state of widowhood and would render her children fatherless ? The question of pensions may he important, but the main question is one of transcending magnitude. In such a matter our statesmen are face to face with a problem ■which must be approached . with the strictest conscientiousness and with' a desire to do the best for the welfare of the Empire and our Dominion."