The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-27
WORLD OF
RELIGION.
English Church and
Divorce.
REFORMING OF HINDUISM
Mortified Without Mr.. Moody Keep:
ON With His Work in har-
49,. ss. monious Spirit.

Church circles in England have been
somewhat agitated by the recent an
nouncement of Mr.. Cripps, &C, the cham
cellor of the archdiocese of York, that
hereafter no license will be granted Tor
the remarriage of any divorced persoi'.
High Churchmen hold for the most part
that marriage is a sacrament and that
according to the canon law it is dissoluble
only by death. The canon of the Angi;-
| can Church in this country permits re-
marriage to the innocent party" if di-
vorce has been obtained on the ground CT
adultery; but the High Church Party has
for some years been trying to have the
canon changed SO as to forbid remarriage
Euron any ground.
| The Churchman conservative Prot.
Episc Sept. 15) thus states the argument
of those who agree with Mr.. Cripps's po-
sition:
persons who wish to contract such
marriages can do so under the civil law,
and it is only under the civil law that
the pre-eXisting marriage bond has ceased
to exist. Though according to canon law
the marriage can be annulled by divorce,
it is dssoluble only by death. Those who
avail themselves of the civil law TO get
release may fairly be asked to avail them
selves of the civil law for the fulfilment
, OF the inducement that in many cases led
, them to seek the divorce itself. They are
not entitled say these men, to the
, church's benediction on marriage which
n only a fragrant violation of the church's
law has made possible at all. Lord
Grimthorpe in this matter occupied an ex-
IRENE position the other side, anc
lscmething may be said for the position
THAT it is better to enter into any such re
-. II III.
: without it, but the weight of Anglican
:, opinion appears to be with Mr.. Grips
: and the chancelors of other dioceses ar
o being urged to follow this uncompromis
Y ing example"
i The following breezy comment on Mr.
; Grips comes all the way from the shore
o Of the Great Salt Lake 1--WE quote froH
a the Salt Lake City Daily Tribune, Sep
TENDER 81:
"Our private belief is that the churche
: arc too severe in the matter of the linn
n tations of marriages. The theory is tina
n, it is a divine sacrament: that to keep
ID divine 1t must be hedged about by sever
n rules, and the fear of church dIspleasur
al Is club held over the people. The trut
\ is marriage is divine only sometimes
20 There are cases where hearts grow absc
ar lutely together; where two lives are in eS
n act accord, and where each is so abs
lutely devoid of selfishness and all II
grcsser elements that the honeymoon e2
d. tends all through this life, and the swee'
of est hope of life is that in another Sphel
ms exactly such holy relations may continl
as the rolling ages ebb and flow But II
ed world is not altogether made up of pc
feet men and perfect women, and Vel
20 many mistaken marriages are solemnize
50. There are couples who grow apart il
g.. stead of together until an antagonism
4 Ter gendered, and when that comes, talk
We please about the sacredneSS Of ma
riage there is no sacredness in their +
-, lstionS for their lives are tangled out
~ tune and it would be better for them
~, separate. And when the church steps
:, and says they may separate but Meth
-; must involve any other life with his
80, "a hers, that is spoken out from under t
80 dim vision of this world because each o
-, might be happy with different mat
-. Hence. il seems to us, the better way
49, to look upon marriage as the law loo
upon it, a civil contract merely If it
=, found that the man and woman are e
va actly congenial, the civil contract hol
=, them as well as would all the solemniti
-, OF the church; and if the reverse is q
~ covered to be the fact, why then it
n, simply pair misma ted. And the chur
~. should keep this in mind; that while
CIV mission is TO draw men and women
81 ward heaven, there is not a road til
vi oi leads down to the perdition of the soul a
-. faster that that on which mismated p;
80 travel Mr.. Grips, &C. is no doubt
= pious man. but the very nature of [
ortier he makes is a pretty good pro
MIA that about once in three weeks his w
ety, wishes that she had married the garder
sly taround the corner. the fellow with
ing istock-ranch outside-that is, somebo
the with blood in him; and the chances
Ell that the little Crippses, if there are a
rri with bated breath, whisper to each 9th
ern II heaven is such a place as papa
1t Iscribes it, we would sooner blamed sis
TO to hell. ~