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[BY THE YERY Rev. W, R. INGE, DEN OF ST. PAUL'S:]

Shortly before the Great War, in armon which. I preached at the consecration of a bishop, I said that the Church was winning its battle against intemperance. but was in danger of losing its battle against immorality. About the same time an opponent of Chris tianity said that the religion of Christ was preparing to die in its last ditch-sexual ethics.. We have not yet been driven to our that ditch, but it is certain that we can never gate this particular line of trenchies Christianity stands or falls with doctrine of the ganc- tity of the marriage tie, which its Founder proclaimed in uncompro- mising language, and which from the first has been regarded as the earthly symbol of the love and loyalty which unites the Church to its living. Lord. There can be no shilly-shallying here.

OCTOBER 21st, 1927.

ROAD BUILDING IN SOUTHERN FUKIEN.

PROGRESS UNDER NEW CHIEF. ENGINEER,

COAL IN THE DISTRICT.

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Highway construction in the dis- triets formerly under the jurisdie- French well say that we ought not tion of Changchowfu, Southern to judge them by their novels. In Fukien Province, commenced in Russia the relations of the sexes 1919 when only a short section ex- have always been bestial, and since tending from Changchow city to the revolution they are diabolical, Nantsing was built, says the Chinn Are we to expect another wave of Economie Bulletin. Since 1921, a Puritanism ? It is quite possible, number of roads ramifying from and much to he wished. But the Changchow have been built revolt against what is called taboo after another, aggregating over morality is Very widespread. 330 i, in length. They include the Marriage, we are told, was made Changchow-Fowkung road, Chang

ranોં, Changchow, for man, and not man for mar-show-Punam ringe. Even if it be granted, that Chengki read. Changchow-Kiulung- are ling road, Changchow Wushihting the majority of marriages happy, it must be allowed that mis road. Pimam-Changtai road, Nan- takes are frequent, and that a tsing Mashag road, Nantsing-Shan- thoroughly ill-assorted marriage heng road, Changchow Kiangtung. blights the happiness of two per- kino road, Kiangtungkiao-Kiowei sons who might be tolerably happy"

and Kwanki - Hunglaikow" with other partners. Ought not road. Travel on these roads, how- the victims of such errors to be ever, is still interrupted at one or granted relief, not only by the law two places, for lack of bridges: of the land, but by public opinion 7 motor cars are now running over Why should martial infidelity be 250 li of the whole length, in five And yet the institution of mono-accepted as a cause for the dissolu- or six bonts, without any obstruc- gamous marriage is everywhere as- tion ef marriage, while other tion. sailed. In America divores is so offences, which perhaps are even Among the roads now under con easy and so common that marriage mere destructive of happiness, are struction, there are the Nantaing- is widely looked upon as a revo- not admitted as sufficient 1 Might Lungyen, Kiulungling - Changpu, cable experiment. A few years it not be argued that, the rule Changchow Kingkow, Changtai - ago, when we were visiting one of generally accepted by

Shancheng Hunglaikos, religious the Northern European countries, people is plainly based on what is Washihting-Taiaoki, Haiteng-Ma- our heats apologised for asking supposed to be the authority of the kowkiao, Changpu-Kuchen, Fow Gospels, although Christ never divorced persons to meet us. on the wished to be a legislator, and alkung-Paithuiying" and Changchow- ground that it was difficult to make ways gave us general principles, Tsaopan roads, covering a total ao a dinner party if they were ex-

and not laws, leaving us to apply length of 430 Zi. The bed of these cluded. In almost every country these general principles to circum roads has been partly laid and con divorce is steadily increasing, and

stances as they might arisel public opinion becomes more and

struction work is, in progress. more tolerant of it.

Ching as the chief engineer of the Since the appointment of Wang Pij

Changchow Highway Bureau acting concurrently as chief of the en- gineering department of the Chang chow-Lungyen road, work on the letter road has been pushed forwarú

Trial Marriages,

Yenki,

of the

There is hardly any other ques Love And The Marriage Vow.

tion concerned with morals in Views are widely expressed, par which a definite decision is so diffi ticularly in fiction, which under-cult. It is easy for those who en mine the whole basis of Christian joy the supreme blessing of a happy marriage. For the Christian, the marriage to ignore the miseries of mariage vow is not a declaration those who have chosen badly, and of passionate love, but a promise to quete the old maxim, that hard of life-long faithfulness It is the cases make bad law." It may be mody solemn engagement that a answered that it is a bad law which rapidly. man or woman makes in the whole multiplics hard cases, and that bad

dcal At Lungyen. of his or her life. It involves & laws, ought to be repealed. My definite pledge of sexual fidelity,

There is a rich coal deposit al own opinion is that marriages be- and of mutual affection and help tween an adulterer and his or her Lungyen which has not been wel in health and sickness, in pro paramour ought never to be allow exploited for lack of transportation The pro-ed even by the State, and that the Chaugehow-Yungyen read was start-

facilities: Construction sperity and adversity. mise is made more sacred by being Church is right to exact a stricter ed in 1021, but was later suspended exchanged in the sight of God." standard than the civil law. But for lack of funds. The road covers but it is also a pledge of personal I should hesitate very much to say 100 in length, but the Yungfeng honour, than which nothing can be that no misconduct except infidelity Bridge located at Paolin in the more stringen

should be recognised by the Church district of Nantsing offers consider In opposition to this, the theory as a suficient cause for the dissoluable engineering difficulty.. of the popular novelist, and of ation of a marriage. large scution of society, is that

The tendency now.

bridge is 570 chih long. In the is toward iver bed underneath, the sand marriage is only moral during the

greater freedom, and it is unlikely duration of physical attraction that the rigour of the Victorian age which has to be removed before the reaches a depth of 20 bo 30 chil that it love-or rather lustis will be restored. Nevertheless, we foundation can be made secure. transferred to another object, the marriage-tie may be broken without may hope to see a healthy reaction The original estimate of the cost of i against the present looseness. The this bridge was 8100,000, including scruple, and the adulterous pair

regularise their position popular, novels of to-day may, labour and materials. But the! twenty years hente, be as complete main work has now been completed, ly excluded from decent houses as the books of Mrs. Afra Behn were requiring only $7,000 more to finish

rem Victorian

the entire construction. The au drawing-rooms, thorities concerned have promised The authors will be rightly served

may

by going through the form of mat- riage, after which they expect to be reived as respectable members of society.

This

Sine the subject of these articles if this oblivion overtakes them. to appropriate 82,500 a month for is the probable state of Europe,

It is possible that a distinction three months to put the bridge in and especially of Britain, at the may in future be recognised be working order. end of the present century, we must

The road bed of the Nantsing: tween marriages in church and consider whether this laxity is, in those at a registrar's office. Those Paolin read has been constructed its deures, a new thing, and whe

who are married in church or for some time, it only remains to ther it is likely to last. This chapel will be understood to have give it a surizer pavement of sand most difficult question to answer because there never has been a time when moralists were not ready exclaim with Cicero, O temporal (mares" and probably with good But I think there is no doubt that waves of licence and of Puritanism tend to follow each The Horal Pendulum.

reason.

other.

to

taken a vow of lifelong fidelity, and earth before it can be used. which it would be in the highest This work is to be started at once. degree dishonourable to break the materials to be supplied by the These, on the other hand-and the motor service company which has number of them may increase who obtained the privilege of operation look upon marriage as an experi- on this road. and shall be completed mental partnership which may with simultaneously with that of the oft disgrace be dissolved by mutual Yungfeng Bridge, as ordered by consent, will naturally, be constent: the authorities.

time.

with a ceremony before a registrar. The Nantsing-Kwanki road covers In the Middle Ages chivalry was Religious bodies may insist on the distance of 70 li, of which, the by no means so pure as we should religious ceremony as a condition of section from Yungtseling, Nan- suppose after reading the Idylls full membership-as a condition, tsing, to Kotzetan, 15 li in length, of the King. The nobles did what for example, of admission to the has been practically built, while the they liked with the wives and Holy Communion; but this is only Ewanki-Hunglaikow section has daughters of their vassals, and

one of several very difficult probeen constructed for some those who are curious about the blems of Church discipline, which Construction work on the Kotzetan- mortis of the clergy in the so-called is is not necessary to discuss here. Shancheng and the Hunglaikow Ages of Faith may be referred to

In Other Countries

Shancheng sections is being pushed Les's "History of Clerical Cell-..

The rate of illegitimacy is happleted before long...

ahead and is expected to be co bacy." There was probably some improvement, from prudential pily very low in England, and it

The Changpu-Makowkiao road, so after the appalling is not rely that irregular unions epidemic of a hitherto unknown followed by the birth of children in length, is being built section ce at the end of the fifteenth will become much more common, or divided into 12 sections. The road or by section. The whole" road is century; but English Puritanism will be generally condoned. In

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