DOGS IN CHURCH
PROPRIETY DISCUSSED.
A clergyman In England has been questioning the propriety of introducing dogs into churches, and the kennel correspondent of the Times has expressed his concurrence. Even/if, he says., we entertain the pleasant thought, not denied by some eminent divines, that dogs-have an after-life, we should not care to take them into churches either while services were being held or at other times. Dogs at one time accompanied their masters or mistresses to church, not so much because men and women disliked \eing separated from them-, even for a short period, as from the fact that they were needed as guards when the worshippers lived in isolated places. The practice, no doubt, was abused. William of Wykeham found it necessary to reprove the nuns of Romsey, writing:—"We have convinced ouvselves by clear proofs that some of the nuns of your house bring with them to church birds, rabbits, hounds and suchlike things, whereunto they give more heed than to the offices of the church, with frequent hindrance to their own psalmody and that of their fellow nuns, and to the grievous peril of their souls."
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3253, 10 November 1932, Page 6
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189DOGS IN CHURCH Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3253, 10 November 1932, Page 6
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