The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-17


7HHE famous typhoid Mary" Burke
u has a successor in Chicago
whose first name is Frieda. Her Sec
ond name is withheld from the public
by the health department. Frleda Is
suspected of being new carrier Oh
typhoid and has been quarantined,
The woman will be treated IN an ell
fort to make it impossible for her to
carry typhoid, but
Tvnhoid Carriers if she cannot be
Not Uncommon cured, she will be
returned to her
home, as there is no law, apparently
covering such cases and to keep an
unfortunate of this kind in quarantine
for the remainder of her life is out OF
the question.
Since the time of Typhoid Mary" it
has been discovered that carriers OF
the disease are by no means uncom-
mon. During the recent typhoid cpl
demic in Birmingham a number OF
persons were suspected of carrying
germs and injecting others without
having the disease themselves.
q MONG questions of wide interest
A coming before the general con-
yention of the Protestant Episcopal
church, which meets in st. Louis next
month, will be that relating to the
determination of matrimony. Shall
the word
Will the Word Obey Be hey De
Dropped From the Vows? str n
from the
the brides VOWS, or shall it be re-
tanned? A majority of the commits
sion on canons and revision composed
of five bishops, five presbyters and
five laymen, has agreed to report IN
favor of cutting out obey.
It is safe to assume that there will
be a lively debate in the convention
when the majority and minority re-
ports are up for consideration, and
equally safe to predict that the word
in question will stand, where it has
stood since the time the Book of
Common Prayer was established in
the reign of Edward vi. And why
should it be eliminated?
Those who would go back to the
centuries long preceding the adoption
Of the Anglican liturgy point to the
fact that the word obey in the marriage
ceremony does not occur in the Sarum
fuse" or certain other fuses" in Eng
land taken as a model for the Ed
wardian service, and on that ground
may contend that the innovation
was not justified and should not con-
tinue. But usage that has obtained
in the Anglican communion $50 years
and more has gathered enough senti-
ment around it to be reckoned with.
The word obey is not found in the
nuptial vows of the Roman Catholic
church; neither has it place, in the
Lutheran form. But as some minis
ters outside of the Episcopal church
frequently use the Episcopal ritual,
by request, in solemnizing marriages,
the language is familiar to people in
general, irrespective of church affilia-
ton or religious faith; almost as
familiar as the Ten Commandments.
Therefore, if the woman being joined
in wedlock according to the Episcopal
rite were to omit the word obey
ITO love, cherish and to obey till
death us do part"--it would seem as
strange to the older generation of
prOteStantS as mOdern REVISION OF
the King James version of the Bible
King Edwards prayer book com
mission had in mind, no doubt, St
Paul's admonition to wives to obey
their husbands and so were, strictly
within scriptural bounds. But ths
word obey would be implied on the
part Of the woman whether ittwere
expressed or not. That being so the
vows would be just as binding without
it. But if long usage of the Episcopal
church were all that could be said in
it, favor. that alone should be a suf-