THE CHURCH AND DIVORCE
ANOTHER REVIEW. “Let us suppose that we were free to make a rule of life-long excommunication cf all divorced persons, innocent or guilty, who had married again. Should we raise the moral standards of the community? Should we advantage the Church? As I see the matter, the Sacraments are, in the old words, means of grace. We hope and believe that, by partaking of the Holy Communion, we are enabled to live better lives. Do we wisn those Church-people, whose first marriage has been wrecked, to live soberly and faithfully in a new union which they may form? Should not the Church be willing to give them all the help possible? It is not that we should be lax in our loyalty to Christ’s teacti. ing; our witness to Christ’s' ideal f life-long union is constantly affirmed in our reading of Scripture and in our marriage service. Further, does it harm me if I know that a man who has done wrong in the past goes to Communion with me? I am not so perfect that I can condemn others.” Dr Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3938, 11 August 1937, Page 4
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