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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

JULY 8, 1935.

Canada's calabration of His Majesty's Jubilee centred at Óttawa. Above is plctured part of the vast crowd which thronged the lawns outside the Parliament Buildings, in the shadow of the famous Victory Tower. Inset (left), the Governor-General Lord Bessborough reviews the Regiment of Governor-General's Foot Guards; inset (right) the Governor General, Lady Bessborough beside him, addresses the crowd.

CHURCH CONSIDERS

DIVORCE

GROUNDS FOR NULLITY OF

MARRIAGE

EXTENSION

APPROVED

X

TUNE IN ON PICTURES!

TELEVISION A THING OF TO-DAY

New York, July 2

The day when one can sit at home and tune in pictures na woll as music and voices has been brought a little closer through recent experiments in the United States.

David Sarnoff, president of Radle Corporation of Amerien, told stockholders the company would spend $1,000,000 to erect a television transmitter, build ceivers and conduct practical ex- periments in sending pictures over the ether almost immediately.

re-

Sarnoff's statement was regard- ed na the reply of United States recent tele- radio engineers to vision announcements in Germany British and Great Britain. The Post-master General announced last January the appropriation of 180,000 pounds for a television transmitter and Germany ulso is constructing a station,

ENGINEERS' PROBLEMT

Sarnoff stressed that television is not just around the corner." Its general use is beset by obstacles vastly greater than those which delayed radio`and talking Thovies,

The chief problem, now that engineers have learned how to transmit and receive accurate images, is of distribution. Tele- vision transmitters have an effec- tive range of 15 to 25 miles and great numbers of relaying or "We do not think so. We think "repeater" stations would have to cover the 3,000,000 report pointed out, to consider the marriage of a husband and wife

It the mind of Christ as we know be built to facts of life, and to ask what line was "till death us do part."

Or re-it-justies, if not towards sin-square miles of the United States. of action by the Church was best was a lifelong rocation, enleulated to bridge the gulf be-lation, which not only ought toners at least towards those who

But the day is coming when tween the Ideal on the one hand be dissolved, but also involved a suffered from the sins of others,

more lenient legislation even television will be as common as and human weakness on the other, moral and spiritual bond which a

But before they considered the could not be terminated save by on the part of the Church itself. radlo. That's why the Radio Cor- Therefore, we cannot agree withporation of America is willing to problems raised after marriage, death.

The report registered an om the unqualified statement that the stake a million dollars on experi- it was necessary to recognise the eases in which à union reputed to phatic protest against the way in Church must regard marriage as mentation.--United Press,

ін now possible to an indissoluble union. We be- be a marriage was in reality not a which it

arrange a divorce desired for quite lieve that the State did right in marriage at all.

"The subject of nullity has re-different reasons, under the cover providing legislation for divorce necessarily be condemned to a ceived less attention in England of an inferred act or series of acts under certain circumstances. We life of celibney, and of barren Įthink it is a mistake on the part of misery. We claim that it shall he than its importance demands, and of adultery..

a careful study of the subject has "The Church must make it clear the Church to maintain the atti- fairly recognised that there are Ironvinced Us that the matter that if any relaxation of the tude. either that the State did many cases of the dissolution of needs further investigation," says divorce laws is to be sanctioned wrong, or that while the State may marriage in which one party is not only should there be no right fairly legislate for those who do known beyond all doubt to be not the report,

Any amiulment of a reputed given for a second marriage to not claim to be Christians, the only innocent but to be one to but indissolubility for all its mein-intention, an indissoluble one and The Majority Report. recom-marriage must be a judicial act take place in church in the life- Church must stand by the law of whom the marriage bond was, in for whom nothing but the con- the Church should be free to forbers. mending certain relaxations of and upon the facts disclosed intime of the former partner,

bid to its own members the use of i "We believe that there are cases tinued and persistent outrage of the marriage code and four new ach case,

the marriage service, admission of unhappy marlages in relation the offending partner could have to the sacraments, and other prl to which a minister of religion made that intention impossible of vileges of the Church.

would be more true to the mind fulfilment.

grounds for annulling a marriage. GROUNDS FOR NULLITY whe approved by 18 votes to 1 by

After dealing with the present the Upper House of the Convoca- tion of Canterbury, sitting in Lon-grounds for hallity according to the law of England, the committee

don.

Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming continue:-

DR. BARNES DISAGREES.

of Christ in saying to the aggriev "We are not persuaded that such ed partner, for the sake of your a person has sinned In seeking a Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming-children you should seek a dia- divorce, or that in marrying again ham, was the only dissentient to We submit that a considered ex- the report, which was made by the tension of the grounds for annuli- ham, and others in a minority resolution of your marriage, than during the lifetime of the offend- Joint Committee of the Convoca- ing a marriage would be consist-port, said that they disagreed in reminding him or her that ha ing partner he or she ought to be not even pre- tions of Canterbury and York.

ent with principle and free from with the view of the majority that or she had vowed to be faithful to denied the sacraments of the or she pared to deny to a genuinely in- Dealing with the question of objection. For instafice, a Court the interpretation of Christ's pro-that bord, for better, for worse,' Church. We ara

nouncements meant that what-and in insisting that he declare a

nocent person the privilege, if it divorce, the Majority Report might be allowed to

ever be the legislature of the must suffer to the end.

the legislation of the etated that, while the Church murringe vold:-

"We are not convinced that one be sought, of having his or her must hold fast to her teachings, (n) in proved cases of infantil-State,

blighted by another's sin must celebrated in church." "some provision for dissolving the iam and similar abnormalitica (in Church must be on the supreme whose first marriage has been second marriage blessed by being legal bond la inevitable."

many of these cases the marriage level of the Divine mind.

It had become necessary, the

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is already voidable by law, but the

fact is not sufficiently recognised.) (b) Where either party is to his or her own knowledge, suffering from venereal disease or certain! other disorders to be specified,

(c). Where a party kriows of and has concealed from the other the existence of sonte notable heredit-! ary mental or physical disorder in his or her family, likely to be detrimental to the happiness of the marriage or the health of the children.

(d) Where the woman knows and conceals from the man that? she is at the time of the marriage: pregnant by some other man,

(c) Where There has been wilfal refusal to consummate the marri-

uro.

As regarded the children of a putative marriage subsequently found to be null and void, it seem- ed only just to hold those to be legitimate, assuming that both parties were free to marry at thei titne of the contract, and that at least one of them was in grond į faith.

STERILISATION A BART

The question was now being raised as whether sterilisation was a bar to Christian marriage, and they felt justified in aaying that the mere physical fact that an operation had been performed need not in itself be regarded as a bur.

Dealing with the present-day attitude towards marriage, the report stated that from 1857, whon the Matrimonial Causes Act was passed, a steady increase had the number of taken place in dissolutions of the marriage tle. The report called attention to the grave perplexitles which had been felt among Christians in all ages on the vital question divorce.

of

The Church hind a law to declare and n discipline to exercise for its members. Under that law. the

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