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HE Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury has rejected a resolution by the Bishop of Ely, stating that it was not able to ap- prove the admission to Holy Communion of per- sons who had re-married after divorce.

Only two Bishops, those of Ely and St. Albans, voted in favour.

The resolution, moved by the Bishop of Ely, stated "This House is not able to approve the admission to Holy Communion of persons who having re-married after divorce, and having

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U.S. Pacific Cities Fear "Peril"

Collective Security Urged By British Author, to Replace Isolation

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to live in disregard of the moral obligations which must bind those who are to be admitted to Holy Communion."

Emphasising that the resolution which they can for themselves and dealt with a domestic question, so far their children," ng the Church was concerned, the Bishop of Ely sold: "It is generally easier to say yes than say no, to permit than te prohibit, but I thinle that one of the first duties a young Bishop has to learn is to say no. It is not, therefore, with any guste that I move this resolution."

Re-marriage after divorce, he maintained, always involved a sin

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, winding up the debate, said: "1 think this rests on the elementary dla finction between law and equity, be- tween the decision of law and the application of it in regard to its prac- tical consequences in particular

cases. "Even

is with judgment there always a place for mercy. We say it is Impossible-however strongly we Iny down your adhesion to the law.

against the seventh Commandment.

"I believe it is said that the con- to be found in consequence to ex- demned murderer

to communicate beforehand a whole is admitted Communion before execution, and it class of persons for the rest of their

asked, if the murderer, why not the lives. adulterer," the Bishop of Ely went Lon. "When we speak about our Lord's San Francisco, Feb. 10.

The Bishop of St. Albans, second-words it is admitted that He said that The United States has only three ing the resolution, said:No man those who were divorced and married possible policies in the Pacific, ac with a human heart who has spent again committed adultery, but it can- cording to W. Arnold Forster, Gver 40 years in the ministry, nearly not be forgotten that he also said that technical advisor to Britain's Peace 28 of which have been as a diocesan those who keep lustful thoughts in There- be insensible to the their minds commit adultery. Movement, and co-author with Sir Bishop, can Norman Angell, Prof. Gilbert Mur- hardness of hard cases which arise fore, who are we to say who are to

-and

Lord Robert Cecil of the from time to time in married life.be judges in this matter?"

The Archbishop added that he could book "Intelligent Man's Way to They are not the only hard cases.

bring himself accept Prevent

Life is full of thems of the continual sotuation, fund that he felt that they Forster Is touring the United States to revive interest in is struggle within me between my heart would be justified in conscience in armament and also to prouse a

and my head. Looking back I have not accepting it. found that when I have allowed my populur demand for collective se- curity as a means of preventing war have thereby had a hand in making

heart to run away with my head. 1 M.P.'s BILL DISCUSSED As regards America's policy in the Pacific, Forster declared

more hard cases, whether in marriage the three alternatives are:

or in any other question." 1-To abandon all idea of re- straining Japan's militarists from doing whatever they will in Asia and the Western Pacife, and duce the American navy to a coastal defence unit.

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"A GRAVE DEPARTURE”

Collusion and Perjury 'In Divorce Cases.

The Bishop of Chichester, opposing the resolution, said that the policy of A number of resolutions and excommunication outlined was a amendments on the subject of grave departure from the practice of the Church and marriage the Church of England, during the

came before the Lower House of

The

The Suffragan Bishop of Barking.

procedure, referred to Mr. A. P.

2-To maintain the traditional policy,

at least. of seeking to defend certain polity was inconsistent with the Convocations of Canterbury. agreed principles of peace and com-the practice of the great majority of mercial opportunity in China, such

the Open Door Policy even other Christian communities. The Dr. J. T. Inskip, in a discussion on against Japan if necessary.

was not right. police church ought to pause," he Herbert's Bill now before Parliament, 3-To maintala ù long-range

before excommunicating and said that if the grounds for navy, ns efficient as

possible for added,

answering finally those who did in good faith divorce were extended it was reason- trans-Pacine service,

part of the Church holds able to suppose that the present menace with counter-menace,

what a fort

a large

-of-divorce might very with fort, but making no attempt to to be legitimate-Action done in good alarming ratlo

conscience is not blameworthy."

well be considerably increased- The Bishop of Birmingham, op-which they would all regret. That posing, related the following parable: would impose on increased demand

"Two

the Bishops in adjudicating on Two women went into a cathedral on

enlist the co-operation of the other powers to defend an agreed rule of

Peace.

PERIL SEEN IN ISOLATION

or worship." he began. "One walk-cases where re-marriage was sought

forward, evidently to

to Holy Com

Com-after divorce.

Forster suid that he would not presume to suggest which of the first munion. She was cold, hard, self- One motion regarding the Church two policies might be better for the centred, censoribus, She derived a and secular legislation recorded that, United States, but insisted that the large income from slum property. in n State which comprised all sorts third one, which combines all of the She gave in a niggardly manner to and kinds of people, the full legal en- dangers of isolation and of "inter-good causes, and the money. which actment of Christ's standard of life ventionous non-intervention," must she saved was invested profitably in long and indissoluble union might not be the wrong one not only for the the shares of armament companies always be possible. United States but for Europo as and whiskey combines. As she went well.

forward, she said, 'I am glad that I Forster declared that the arma- am not an open notorious evil-ilver ment race, which was conceded to like this other woman.' be one of the principal causes of the "The other woman dared not go World War, has reached proportions forward to the Lord's Table. Her life are of the most alarming had been tragedy. She had married character. During the six years of the wrong man, to discover that he the arms race before 1914, he said was a foul creature, althy in mind that nations as a whole merely in- and diseased in body."

"She had divorced him and then creased armaments expenditure by about: $785,000,000 within two years.

ars, she had married. again, hoping to

that

The Rev. W. R. Johnson, Truro, moved an amendment that, as Christ's standard provided the only sure ground on which to base the marringe relationship, the Church, while main- taining it as obilgatory on its mem- bers, must never cease to witness to that standard in its attitude towards whatever proposals might be made by the State,

Canon N. P. Williams, Oxford Uni- versity, opposing the amendment, sald

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But in the 1932-35 period, the ex-make life once more tolerable. She that the Bill was not before the TO - MORROW

was about $1,000,000,000. had two

promote or hinder it.

years after the 1932 disuse the Claren, and she wished to Church as such, and it could not "began." he ion tout of Holy Commun- either have to consider what is jeust double what it operaing at more closely to

"Three armament conference said, "the world Was

the

conference

convened,

husband and children

one another that actually the present relation between before their lives might be worthy of those the Church and the State," he added. Still who tried to be Christ's followers. "We must remember that there are more important is the Increase in And she cannot get the help of that many who are not Christians. Are striking power and especially the sacrament which she so dearly we entitled to force Catholic views power to strike a sudden and de- wished to have"

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the whole, is best for a community which is partly pagan?**

Forster said that during the World War, the greatest number of air- planes that ever reached London at

FAVOUR COLLECTIVE

SECURITY

NOT RIGHT TO FENCE THE ALTAR

Mr.

Canon Williams said that the exten- sion of the grounds of divorce might one time was 22, starting fires in the paused, looked up and down the Nowadays, when people did not be- As the Bishop concluded his parable have valuable incidental results. five different places. The recent length of the table at which the Heve that they were bound together prefection of an incendiary bomb, he Bishops sat, and said "Do wo go to for life, and wanted to get rid of one believes,, creates an entirely new Holy Communion because we are. another, they had to stage collusive problem for urban mankind.

righteous, because there are no sins adultery at an hotel. If the Bill went in our hearts? Is admission to the through that indecency would no Lord's

table the certificate of moral longer be necessary. The Bill would As the representative of the character? Surely we all have sins get rid of a vast amount of unseemly British Peace Movement, Forster, is in our past lives of which we are collusion. still an ardent advocate of col- ashamed. Surely, from time to time, Herbert's Bill that no divorce should

The proposal in Iective security as the only means the fact that we belong to a society be possible for five years of safeguarding the world against which is so umilke the ideal of Christ marriage would, in all probability after war. He frankly places the blame

causes us the soverest trouble. I save a great many marriages. for the breakdown of the League of cannot see that it Nations machinery on the fallure of the altar. We ought to encourage all in the first week of marriage, and Is right to fence "There must be many couples who, Great Britain to take a definite who desire the help of Christ to live that they are sundered by many stund in Die Japanese-Manchurian better lives and to come to His table. differences af temperament which and affairs as well Christ came not to call the righteous, i they never suspected at all during nations to respond but sinners, to repentance."" the period of courtship, and abandon

The Bishop of London said that he the whole thing," June, 1932, or to the Roosevelt plan believed it was wrong in fiselt to ex-Williams. If they were ded

sald Canon together As to the present arms race Falcate, which he described ́ns for at least Ave years they might be "sending people to spiritual death." more disposed to make the best of "I could quite understand it in the what at first sight appeared to be a should be called upon to respond.. Communion as a treat," ha continued, | one,”

The first is whether armaments "but if you look upon 11 as the Johnson's amendment was lost. are being built for enforcing collee-bread of life it is a most torride thing

wer House approved a re- five security or whether they are to sentence to spiritual death people solution, "That it is urgently desirable being amassed for the private use of who, in good conscience, as they be that steps should be taken cach nation concerned.

Hove, have been married.

strengthen the safeguards against the He belleves if the latter premise "I cannot condemn to spiritual methods of collusion and perjury Is true, nothing can save the world death all their lives those who, in which are at the present time not un- from another disaster similar to that great distress of mind, have to choose commonly employed in soeking to of 1814-18.

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