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CHALLENGE BY BISHOPS ON DIVORCE

AT VARIANCE WITH THE PRAYER BOOK

Criticism of the Church's attitute which could be interpreted in dif-

to divorced persons was expressed ferent ways by different people. by Dr. Bernard Heywood, Bishop MEANING OF RESOLUTIONS of Ely and Dr. M. B. Furse, Bishop The resolutions recently passed by of St. Albans, at a meeting held the Upper House of Convocation of under the auspices of the Marriage Canterbury on marriage and Defence Council at the Albert Hall. divorce, which "reaffirmed the

in-

con-

Dr. Heywood and Dr. Furse were dissolubility of marriage, and which the only two Bishops to vote for the also accepted that divorced, people proposal that divorced persons who who remarried could be accepted as remarried should be excluded from communicants, Dr. Heywood Holy Communion when the Upper tinued could only mean one of two House of Convocation discussed the things... matter in January.

The majority of the bishops

to

The meeting was called to reaffirm must apparently think either that belief in the adherence to the teach-Christian marriage can be dissolved ing of the Church on marriage. In in the divorce courts and that there- his speech, Dr. Heywood declared:fore these people were as free

“The Church of England is fac- embark upon their new unions as ing to-day a crisis more serious if their former partners had died; than any with which it has been or that people who are and continue confronted within my life time."

to be guilty of adultery can proper- Christ had pronounced Christian ly be admitted to the Sacrament marriage to be indissoluble with without penitence. ̈ ̈ ̈ out declaring any "general principle"

BRITAIN'S FREE PRESS

"These are the only alternatives. I will challenge anyone with this dilemma. Either Christian marri- age can be dissolved in the divorce courts or it cannot. If it can, then the Prayer Book is wrong and must

Lord's teaching is wrong or out of date.

MOST INDEPENDENT surely be altered forthwith, and our

IN WORLD

"I feel completely bewildered by what has happened," said Dr. Heywood. "What a fatal blunder

No fewer than five 2 Ambassadors, |11 Ministers and two Charges d'Affaires were present at the an- nual dinner, held at the May Fair it is to think that you can win the world by surrendering the standards Hotel, of the Newspaper Press

of the world.・ The very world- Fund, of which the King is patron. lings themselves despise you."

Sir Ernest Benn presided, and a Dr. Furse declared that what was

sum of £9,000 was raised in re- sponse to the appeal.

proposed by Convocation was sheer coercion of a minority by a major- ity.

HARD CASES

One of the speakers, Sir Edmund Findlay, M.P., referring to news paper attacks on individuals, said:

"Hard cases in marriage," he "It has been tried in this country, continued, “are not confined to those I regret to say, but the fundamental who go through the Divorce Courts solidarity of the Press, based

on and remarry. There are hundreds public opinion, forbade it.

of men and women who are gallant- "The case will be familiar to you ly holding on to their marriage all, where a section of the Press vows under terrible difficulties, sim- attacked a man remorselessly for ply because they believe it is God's some time. I think that attack will that they should."

strengthened him in his position The discipline proposed by Con- far more than praise could have

vocation, added the Bishop, was to done, because the public realised leave it to remarried divorcees to that the attack was unfair, and, if say whether they believed our Lord nothing else, the British public is and the Church were right or wrong fair."

in saying that they were committ- ing adultery. If they could per- suade the Bishop that our Lord and the Church were wrong they could be admitted.

Wider Significance Sir Ernest Benn said that the Press in this country was the most independent in the world.

ficance

B

most

"We are a free Press, but free-

"If these proposals. became opera- dom is a word of a wider signi- tive they would lead to

continued. "It is not controversy and bad feeling, and enough to be free of the Govern-that, too, at a time when they all ment. We should strive to be free wanted to be free to respond to the from the pressure of a mass opinion Archbishop's recall to religion.” or, it may be, a mass ignorance."

ed," an is sometimes appréciat serious division in the Church, to

Sir Ernest, who asserted that the

Press was responsible for 90 per NO PORRIDGE

cent. of the conversation of the peo-

ple went on to speak of the men of FOR DIVINE the editorial department whom the WIND FLIERS Fund was intended to help in times

when they fell by the way. These "Porridge for me,” said Mr. men were always getting the "thick Masaaki Iinuma, the Japanese air- end" of the newspaper job. They man, who made the record flight must be 100 per cent, efficient at all from Tokyo to London, when he sat times in a profession which was down to breakfast with his com- merciless.

panion on the trip the wireless operator, Mr. Kenji Tsukagoshi.

The good Pressman must be terse, and he often had the artistic tem- peramenta fact which explained,

waiter porridge was served,

He said it in Japanese, as nef- ther can speak English. His wishes to some extent, the claims made having been interpreted- to the upon the Fund.

but He had to work strictly to the half a dish was enough: clock, without any regard to the During the week-end after their state of his stomach, the weather, flight the airmen went sightseeing or the claims of his friends or his in London. They did some shop- family. He was subjected to a strain ping. Edgware-road. They the like of which was not found in bought some shirts and pyjamas and Jother employments.

dozen

"Coronation neckties."