The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-09
EPISCOPAL CHURCH MAY
ELIMINATE ''OBEY' FROM
ITS MARRIAGE CEREMONY
TRIENNIAL GENERAL CONVEN-
TION TODAY AT DETROIT WILL
TAKE Up SUBJECT

Detroit, Mich, oct. S.-Wth myriad
Of after-war problems and contemplat-
ing adoption Of a far.rcaching program
of church work extension that will call
for the expenditure of many millions
of dollars, the clergy and laty of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Amer.
lea met mere today ineir 44th triennial
general convention.
The two legislative bodies. the house
of bishops and the house of delegates.
will organize this afternoon. 1t is an
ticipated that the higher house will re.
elect Bishop Thomas f. Gailor of Ten
nessee as chairman. The house of del
egates is expected to elect Rev. Dr. Al
eNandcr Mann Of Trinity Church. Bos-
ton, chairman. Bishop Arthur $. Lloyd,
president of the board Of missions, will
recommend to the convention the cleo
ton Of white bishop for the negro
suffragan to Liberia.
That one big laugh Of married life.
the archaic phraseology Of the mar
riage service, win soon give way to a
moro modernly human formula of
pledges for the contracting parties if
the proposed revision of the Book of
Common Prayer Of the Episcopal
Church is ratified by the general con
vention Of the church which assembled
here today
The new form recognizes the 2Oth
century equality Of woman with man in
all the relations of life, making the
promises ana pledges of the bride in
the form of solemnization Of matrimo.
NY the same as the bridegroom's. 1t
eliminates the word "obey" from the
pledge made by the woman and elimi-
mates this phrase from the lines of the
bridegroom when he gives the ring to
the bride.
And with all my worldly goods
thee cndow"
This elimination makes the lines at
the giving of the ring read as follows:
with this ring 1 thee wed. In the
name of the Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost"
With the words obey him and serve
him eliminated the pledge to be- taken
1y the woman in the new form of the
liturgy reads as follows:
witt thou have this man to be thy
welded husband, to live together after
Gods ordinances in the holy estate of
matrimony? Wnt thou love him. com
fort him, honor ana keep him in sick.
ness and health; ana forsakmg all 9th.
ers, keep thee only unto him as long as
ye both shall live2
Several omissions of archaic and un.
necessary phrases in the present form
OF service are made. In the present
form, the minister at the close of the
eNhortation is required to say: For be
We well assured that if any persons are
joined together otherwise than as Gods /
word doth allow, their marriage is not
lawful
The new form is as follows: "For be
We well assured that If any persons are
joined together otherwise than as Gods
word doth allow their marriage is not
such as the church alloweth."
This puts into enduring form in the f.
marriage service the churchs protest
against the remarrIase of divorced per
sons
n the revision OF the marriage service
is ratified by the convention here. it /.
must then 90 to the diocesan conven- |
tionS and be ratified again by the con
vention Of 1922. The Episcopal general /
convention meets only once i'm three
years.