EVILS OF MODERN LIFE.
AN OUTSPOKEN MINISTER, SOCIETY AND THE HOME. [bt telegraph.—press association.] CHRISTCHUECH, Monday. "Tbsre are hundreds of children dying each year in this and other countries through ignorance and neglect," declared the Rev. Leslie Noale in a sermon broadcast from the Rugby Street Methodist Church. "In Christcihurch there are mothers who go out at' night drinking cocktails and dancing while their children remain neglected at home; yet I, as a Christian minister, am expected to go to the graveside and say 'the Lord gayeth and the Lord taketh away.' It's a lie." Again-he said.he was called upon in the marriage ceremony to say, "whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder." But God had no hand in joining together many couples. Force and sin were the reasons for the unions. "God did not join them together," he said. "That's another lie." This was the reason why so many churches to-day were countenancing divorce. They knew there was no happiness in these unions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19550, 1 February 1927, Page 14
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