SALVATION ARMY WEDDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20309, 17 July 1929, Page 17

SALVATION ARMY WEDDING.

GENERAL'S DAUGHTER. | ! fntOM orr. own cor.nEsroxittNT. ] , LONDON, June 6. I General Z. J. Higgins, the head of 1 the Salvation Array, officiated on Satur- i i day at his first wedding ceremony since j ihe succeeded General 3oo:h. The wed- ! | diaß, which took place in the Array's ■ I Regent Hail, Orfcrd Street, vras that of : ! Captain Catherine Siggins, daughter of j j the General, to Captain Harold Zealley. i j Both bnde and bridegroom were in Army j i uniform The ceremony was onlike the ) ! usual •(redding in church. The couple j | vowed"We have not considered this' j marriage for the sake of our own happi- j j ness and interest only, althoach wo hop? j j these will be furthered thereby, but be- j I cause we believe the union will enable ; jus better to please and to serve God, and ; i more earnestly ana successfully to fight j | and work in tb* Salvation Army " i They then took the actual marriage i j vows, and it was noticeable thai the bride ! | did not promise to obey her husband. . | After this ceremony the eoupif went t.o j i a side hall, where they were married ! | again by the registrar While they were j j away speeches were made in the hail, j Mre! Higgins, the bride's mother, spoke , lof her daughter's future in her own ) | little home, and Colonel Zealley. the ; I father ot the bridegroom, had a few j j words tr> say about his son. The recep- | i lion atin itredding feast took place at the j j Regent Street Polytechnic, but there wa& j j no confetti or slipper throwing, the Array ; j not. approving of these at weddings.