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Communion for Those
Who Remarry
BISHOPS REFUSE SENTENCE OF "SPIRITUAL DEATH"
"WE
E cannot fence the altar," declared the Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Barnes) at a meeting of the Up- per House of the Convocation of Canterbury, opposing a resolution to bar from Communion people who remarried after divorce.
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In the Lower House a 'resolution was, passed calling for stronger safeguards against collusion and perjury in divorce
enses,
The resolution was defeated by an overwhelming majority.
Criticism was made of Mr. A. P. Herbert's Marriage Bill now before Parliament.
The resolution of the Bishop of Ely (Dr. Heywood) in the Upper House stated:
"This House & not able to approve the admission to Holy Communion of persons who, having remarried after divorce
orce and having thereby trans- gressed the law of Christ and the Church, continue to live in disregard of the morni obligations which must bind those who are to be admitted to Iloly Communion."
"ALWAYS A SIN"
The Bishop maintained that re- marriage after divorce always in- volved sin against the Seventh Commandment.
"I believe it is said that the con- demned murderer is admitted 10 Communion before execution, and it is astced: If the murderer, why not the adulterer," he sold.
not admit him to entcheste
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"But if the murderer is in a posi- tion to continue the slaughter of his neighbours and avail himself of the opportunity, then we should surely (Dr. of Bishop Bell), opposing the resolution, said: "There is a very great danger of schism if the purity of the Church were to be pushed to such a final conclusion as to make it impossible to contain within the Church all but the most purified and the most devoted to
deeply and irretrying those
this Article of
who break the marriage bond."
The Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Barnea) sud: "I cannot see that it is right to fence the altar. We ought to encourage all who desire the help of Christ to live better lives and to come to His Table.
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"Christ came not to call righteous, but sinners to repentance."
"Reverend" Deaconesses
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THE Upper House of the Con- vocation of York recently approved a resolution that deaconess should wear a special dress or emblem and be address. ed as "Reverend."
"Deaconesses want to be ac corded real status," said the Bishop of
Wi- of Carliste (Dr. liams), presenting a report and resolutions prepared by a.com- mittee of bishops.
One resolution sald deaconesses ought to rank among the clergy and not among laity, and that for all religious and ecclesiastical a deaconess ought to be
Yard and deseribed as a per-
son
wh10 The Archbishop of York (Dr. Temple) said there had been dis- appointment among the deaco- nesses that their order had not been placed on a
level with the order of deacons.
was in
in Holy Orders.
There was no desire, he said, to belittle the order of deacones- ses, but rather to magnify it. Its motive was to set it free from some restriction that were Imposed on the deacons,
A view of the great floods in Eng- land showing a
Kent highway in completely under water with only The telephone poles showing the pre- sence of the road.
GERMAN FIRMS & PORTUGUESE COLONY
Berlin, Feb. 15,
Es rellably understood here that seven prominent German firms have recently taken up construc- tionnt and exploitation activities in the Portuguese colony of Angola, West Africn.
Angola, bounded by the French and Belglon Cangos and British South Atilcu, is 487,788 square miles In extent, and its population is more than 3,000,000. It has a coast line of more than 1,000 miles.
The arms concerned include;
I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German dye trust, which is Interested in the potash deposits in Angola os well as in Portuguese Guinea.
Gutchoffnungshuette, the coal and
foundry concern.
Borsig Rheinmetall, machinery.
The contracts, which were signed last month, ure 'understood to centro but the con- on mining activities, struction of bridges and tunnels will also be undertaken.
steps should be taken to strengthen the safeguards against the methods of collusion and perjury which are at the present time not uncom= monly employed in seeking to arcure decrees of divorce."
Winchester (Dr. Edward The Bishop of London (Dr. Ingra Dthe resolution was moved by the
Selwyn). said that he believed it was wrong in itself to excommuniente. He des- "A High Court judge who has to cribed it as "sending people to deal with many poor people's divorce
suits has told me," said the Dean, Well-informed quarters here state spiritual death,"
"that he did not see anything in the that the contracts are of a "purely new Bill which really was going to private character," and it is stipu- The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr.deat with the question of collusion. lated that Portuguese sovereignty is
"I think he rather thought that the not prejudiced. -Long) said he could not bring-him-dimeulty of collusion was almost in--- *** HITLER AND
SPIRITUAL DEATH
self to accept the resolution, and that Ane who knows the sort of
he felt that they would be justified
in conscience in not accepting it.
the Bishops of Ely and St. Albans voted for the resolution.
Only the
The Upper House also considered a report of the Joint Committee on the Church
hurch and Marriage, with recom- mendations
ons presented by the Bishop of Winchester.
These recommendations included the principle that a "guilty" as well as an "innocent" party in a divorce case, after marriage, could, in certain circumstances, by permission of the Bishop, be baptised or
take Holy Communion.
COLLUSION
divorce suits that are now taking place knows well that the people engaged in them are not going to wait three years before they get release.
"They are perfectly prepared to have put up' adultery to get it.
"They do not mind if it involves perjury. It is with these people that the law ought to deal."
The Sufragan Bishop of Barking (Dr. J. T. Inskip) also criticised Mr. A. P. Herbert's Bill, which is now before Parliament,
"If the grounds for divorce are ex- tended," he said, "it is reasonable to The Lower House approved this suppose that the present alarming resolution:
ratio of divorce might very well be "It is urgently desirable that considerably increased."
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COLONIES"
It is also stressed that Germany has not leased or bought any part of Portuguese territory in Angola, us has been frequently reported.
Herr Hitler, it is believed. will refer perhaps at length to the colonial issue in his speech to the
on Saturday.
etching economie mission hos
An
arrived in Berlin, where it is expect ed to negotiate with Krupps, the I. G. Farbenindustrie,, and the Borsig Rheinmetall for construction of plant and factoricy exploit Iranian fish products.
Iron would export to Germany essential commodities such as wool, cotton, and sheep-gut in return for chemicals and medicinal products.- United Press,
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