The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-21
Rt. Rev. William D0ane Makes
Strong Address at Albany,
sse.. New York.
SAYS CHRISTIAN PULPITS
SHOULD SCORE RE-MARRIAGE
No Clergyman Should Give
BenedictiOn to Those Who
"Flaunt Their Sim"

ALBANY, n. Y, Nov. 20.-The
tbirty-eighth annual convention Of the
Episcopal diocese Of Albany convened
in All Saints cathedral in this city
today, The feature of principal public
interest was the address of Rt. Rev.
William Croswell Doape, who. from the
foundation of the diocese, has been it's
bishop. His widely-known interest in
the subject Of marriage and divorce
was again displayed in his ernest ref
erences to that subject, in the course
or which, after alluding with approval
to the meeting at Philadelphia of the
Congress on Uniform Divorce Laws, at
which he was present, he said IN part:
Whatever resu, is to be attained in deal
ing with this most important question de-
pends upon three things. In the first place
Innocent party 10 divorce, with much con
rect the methods OF procedure! In the next
place what pressure can be brought 10 bear
by people who really control and govern what
is called sooiotyl And, in the next place
by the positive and definite ousspokenncss OF
the churches. And am increa singly hopeful
and and anxious that this church shall take the
lead in a strong and definite position to
our relation, at any rate, to the question OF
the re'marriage OF divorced persons.
Church Dealt Unfairly.
Until six years ago canons quietly treated
as possible the re-marriage OF the so~cslled
innocent part yeo d1Torccc. with much con-
fusion in the details of its language Three
years ago the church made il difficult. But
this is really not dealing either frankly or
fairly with the demand for relief.
Weary of the discussion and content 70
feel fhat the new canon makes c-marriagc
more difficult, there is tendency and temp
tation TO let The sleeping dog lie. but tho
trouble is that this dog is not asleep. I can
not believe that the church ought to be
tent with a canon that really expresses no.
body's honest convictions. 1t casts a siur
people thiuk distinctly permitted by
Lord. and il forces fhe hand. 10 a degree,
of those Of us who think otherwise. If
u is right. il ought not TO be hedged in win
the difficulties, IL il is wrong. 1t ought TO
oe impossible. Let US wash our hands Of the
whole business. Let the state which sep
ara,cs unite. Aud without elaboration OF de-
tail or definitions OF discipline, let us simply
forbid the clergy to give the church 5 benc-
dicton 10 any such marriage,
PLANTING of SIM
All the while some statement is appearing
in the newspaper reports of the wholesale
manufacture OF divorces somewhere, and
every now and then, from ul comparative
obscurity OF many OF the cases, lifts up
its ugly head in conspicuous disgrace. be
OF the social position or the wealth of
the parties The Christian pulpit ought TO
call this thing by It's right name until thosa
who hold some moral standards shall recog-
nize the wrong and refuse TO recognize ,he
wronGdoers Haunting ;heir sin before the
world.
Upon the reading of the Bible and
the teachings of the church, Bishop
Doane said in part;
1.-The Bible is largely an unread and
unknown book TO children and 10 peo-
pie OF middle age. The misuse and
the misunderstanding of criticism is re-
sponsible for this in no slight degree
The Bishop dwelt at length upon the
essentiality of "The Historic Fact of
tho virgin birth of Jesus Christ, one
of the cardinal faiths of the Episcopal
church, with the denial of which DR..
Crapsey was charged