OTHE MARRIAGE UNION
CHURCH AND CIVIL LAWS ADDRESS BY BISHOP WILLIAMS. (Per United Press Association.! NAPIER, October 11. Tile discrepancies between the church and the civil laws relating to marriage were the chief subject of the presidential address of Bishop Williams at the opening of the twenty-sixth Waiapu Synod. “The church teaches that the marriage union is made for life. If through human weakness a man and his wife find it better to live apart, the do oh should never be closed to the hope of reconciliation. The low standard set by current literature, pictures and the civil laws too often lead young people lightly to undertake the responsibility of marriage with the thought, possibly not expressed in words, that if it proves irksome it can be easily laid aside.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22391, 12 October 1934, Page 5
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