BISHOP ON MARRIAGE

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1930, Page 9

BISHOP ON MARRIAGE

WRONG MODERN TENDENCY. ADDRESS AT A WEDDING. London, Sept. 17. Dr. BertiZm Pollock, the Bishop of Norwich, who performed the ceremony at the wedding of Lady Helena Rous, chxvghter of tlic Istirl of fetia-dbiolce, formerly Governor of Victoria, and Major Douglas Beresford-Ash, addressed the congregation on the subject of marriage. Most of those who spoke and wrote ab( ut marriage emphasised its failures, he said. It was a wretched atmosphere for young people to find themselves in if the books they read and the talk of older people always fixed on the meanness, wretchedness and caricatures of unhappy marriage and ignominious ways of obtaining release from its hated row’s. Too many young people, added the bi< set out in married life without previous thought, but only hoping, to have a good time in a self-centred life Without responsibility. Too many did not even trouble to read the mairiage senice before the wedding. The sacred services of betrothal might help m that direction. . , it is recalled that the bishop, when 64, married his secretary, who was 31.