Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-10-05


Bushop Query, of the Episcopal
church on the question of divorce,
as expressed in an interview with
him recently published in the east
During the month of August the Dish,
op filed the pulpit of Trinity church
New York.
The Boston Herald published the
following dispatch from New York
"The Right Rev. William A.Guer'
nv, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of South Carolina, in an interview re
Gently pointed out that the Anglican
episcopate throughout the world has
placed itself on record as against di'
vorce and against the remarriage %
a person divorced for any cause
"He preached Sunday at Trinity
Episcopal church, where he is the
preacher every Sunday this month.
BY Invitation of Bishop.
81 am the preacher in Trinity
church for the month of Auugst by
invitation of Bishop Manning, and
Trinity is still his own church-arld
for me to express my opinion about
this very delicate matter of DR.. Grant
would be entirely improper and show
lack of consideration FOR my friend,
fellow bishop and class mate, Bishop
Manning, he said.
"Bishop Manning is perfectly COM
petent to deal with this very delicate
question: he continued. However, he
gave an interview on the question OF
marriage and divorce in general and
said that not only was his church and
state against divorce on any ground
but that he as bishop would not let
any of his clergy perform the cere-
mony for any marriage in which one
of the contracting parties had been
divorced upon any ground.
"sThe house of bishops at the trl-
ennial general convention of the Epis-
copal church, held in Detroit, two
years ago. said Bishop Query, voted
in favor of the indissolubility of the
marriage relation. But the house Of
IDENTITIES refused to concur. There
fore, it did not become u law.
He recalled that from the time
she became a state, South Carolina
in the days of the colonies wrote it
into her law forbidding remarriage
after divorce ON any ground.
You can't get a divorce in my
state on any ground whatsoever he
said South Carolina will grant a le-
gal separation, but the husband has
10 sunnorttha-childeen HasbandGand
wife can get this separation but .they
cannot marry another.
Universal Approval.
g 81 believe that there is not a law
on the statute books placed there in
the last $50 years which meets with
such universal approval. And I don't
believe there is any state which has
a purer home life than ours. The st.
Cecilia Society of Charleston, which
is the oldest social club in the state,
a very exclusive and much sought at
ter organization, gives three balls
every winter and their standing rule
is that no man or woman divorced
and remarked can ever be invited to
one of these social functions. 1t is the
only institution of the kind that l
know of in America which maintains
that standard.
"tWe find from actual experience
that it acts as a deterrent and has
even greater influence in preventing
divorces outside the state than any
law on the statute books. Social
ostracism people. dread almost more
than any other punishment.
"tBishop Query then spoke in
more detail of the growing desire in
the Episcopal church to make the re-
marriage of a divorced person for
any reason against the canon law.
.4The question came up before
Lambeth conference in England last
summer he said, .and after long and
earnest debate, which lasted for sew
eral days, the bishops voted by a
large majority in favor of the. indis-
solubility of the marriage relation,
on any ground
chr;st's Ideal of Marriage.
".They were careful to say that
Ghrist's standard and ideal Of mar