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Transmission 1

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"I Met Ilm In Paris" (Queen's 'Theatre and Alhambra Theatre, to- day)-Claudette Colbert introduces 4 special branil of humour which in exclusively hers in this guy and at-; tractive Alm. Assisted by Melvyn Douging and Robert Young. Mias Colbert scores a great friumph and maltes this one of the finest comedy- romances of the season. Wesley Rug-12.30, B Ben, Ezra Pit and Emer gles brilliantly directs the pteture.

try the English countryside. "Green Light" (King's Theatre, 1 p.m. "The Adventures of a Zoologist in

England, to-day),Based on Lloyd C. Douglas' | 1.15 pan. The Arthur Dulay Quintet, best-seller, this picture retains all the 163 p. The News and Announcements.

bairne, Bunsex. original strength und bequty of the story. Errol Flynn adds considerably to his already enviable reputation as a skilful nelor, and some fine work is accomplished by Anila Louise and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

"When's Your Birthday?" (Oriental

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DIVORCE LAWS RECOGNITION BY THE CHURCH ADVOCATED

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MONDAY, JULY 26, 1937.

of an ideal which is dear to God's PANAMERICAN RECORD heart for His children,. not what

Moses conceded for the hardness of MILESTONE IN DEVELOPMENT

our hearts. We are not enquiring for laws which will achieve best a marriage In which women arc

OF PACIFIC AVIATION

A algnificant deende In

aviation to 1 close when trans-

economically dependent on men-camo

The belief that there is no hope of Christians really influencing · elvil Iegislation, or of the Church truly Social, and economic sanctions for occanie flying, long the last refuge of i Interpreting Christ's mind to its own marriage and to know how law can daring pilots seeking individualistic

help to achieve it.

recognition and courting personal people unless it recognises that a man

first answer is equality, fame. appeared as the principal fea- Jestig' and woman may conscientiously and

This la ture in a routine announcement from

in loyalty to Christ choose divorce as You must call it reverence,

the

With the arrival of the Philippine Clipper in Manila, on Monday, July 12, 1,000,000 miles of trans-ocennie Gying. without mishap, were

American Airways

the best course for them, was ex-ploin from verse 28 in which the Pan-American Airways that the y pressed by the lev.. H. W. Baines, Greek word translated looketh on ing equipment of its Pacifle Division preaching In St. John's Cathedral a woman to Just after her' means had logged 1,000,000 miles in yesterday on "Law and Love," nothing more groas than want of maintenance of regular air service

Mr. Baines took as his text Christ's wish for himself. What Christ is ncross the Pacife Ocean.

rebuking is not uncontrolled, and д woman, icachings from the Sermon on the cruel lust so much as using Mount necording to the 5th, Chapter or a man, as a means to any enjoy of Matthew, verses 27, 20 and 31 and ment or gain or advancement, Hence what Christ sponsors is a relationship 32. He said:

of truq equality in which both can "I have been trying to show in this love and enjoy and reverence each pleted by Pan

sako 5. trans-Pacific clippers, flying in

purely, series of sermons that the authority other for their own of Jesus as Lord of human life and That, to my mind, necessitates the gular, scheduled airline service across p.n. 11g Ban. Empire change." 10.8.0., CA.G, CAIL, G.9.J.)

the practical relevance of His moral institution of marriage and moves the world's largest aceno. 7pm. The band of the 1st Battalion teaching lie not in any words Ho away from experimental or coin-

Border Regiment. From East-

spoke which still and a place in our panionate marriage in as much as

Just that legislation but in the immortal spirit they lack which inspired His teaching, I be which would deliver un from sel-

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Transmission 2

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lieve that it is our task as His dis-fishness. cliples to show by the way in which we make that Spirit true in life to

Astrology and the planets, and as a 9.20 p.m. The News and Announcements.day that the charge of Irrelevance soothsayer he is tops.

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Transmission 3

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nonsense.

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sengers, or all three, were carried. But secondly, as it seems to me, so It does not include nearly 200,000 Jesus points away from it and says over the Pacific in the original survey far from emphasising adultery, miles of non-scheduled flying done that the greed or self-seeking which He speaks may be found as work of the route or in subsequent much inside marriage as outside, and training flights, the mileage of which therefore that to possess the institu- in fiself totals more than five times. llon of marriage is no tallsman to all of the successful trans-Pacific victory, as the happy ending often flights made in the decade beginning suggests, for what matters is within or without it, love of the other for with 1027 by successful trans-oceanie, ploncer lers. In the last two years his own sake.

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In answering that question I know

From this it follows for Jesus and In the first place that these words of Its ideal of marriage that the worst Jesus about divorce have for genera tions and by many wise and saintly onemies are all sins against love such of coral hardness and semi-tropical i people been taken as the God-given sprite, unimaginativeness, greed wilderness, after the

'standing on one's rights, jealousy, foundation for legislation about Indifference, and that adultery, un-power-houses, wireless stations and Telephone 28031

modern airway Inns for the comfort is thought of simply as the and care of sky travellers, more than joint Passenger Agents:- cannot less it

Anal expression of each of these sins,

hundred air crossings have been It. Certainly any man is removed from its notorious

made without think twice before he tells

lous post one may well

single mishap on the fortion as the only adequate, or, worse 9,000-mile trans-Pacific airway, which people who come to prepare Christian marriage that in these the only

now extends these divorce. In this respect, as in others, the United States directly into Chino. from the mainland of Words of verses 31 and 32, Christ was Mr. Her

civil divorce In the not laying down a law for their obedi Mr. Herbert's Bill bringa civ

record, 5,022,124 ence for he must know that Christa nearer Christ's spirit. Another meccomplishment of this million- passenger inltes nald very

little else, If anything, emphasis in Jesus' teaching at this have been flown and nearly

point-also echoed by the Marriage hundred tons of air freight, exclusive two directly and positively about mar-Act's pro

divorce until of mail, have been carried on the Act's prohibition of ringe, and so that from the very ave (or three),

A

years of marriage wings of the clippers. source where they loyally expect to

have clapsed is responsibility. For find so much light they will get, it siems, none. But I cannot help Just as neither the man nor the wo- non Con live as Christ wills in knowing also that because many peo- marriage entirely to and for them been logged in the last two years of While the first 1,000,000 miles have ple cannot accept what they regard selves, but also for the other and

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Fatest on a whole home which lived en-has little in common with the reckless authority on the whole range of re-rely to itself and ignored er den spirit of daring which marked many

of those heroic stunt fights lations between men and women dis- ed all responsibility to the commu- occans appears. Such people regard sexual nity in which it lived.

occans with which the ten-year morality as the taboo of a

supersti-

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opened. A whole new science tious, conservative and prudential Jesus' teaching shows that His ot aerial navigation and instrument society. Friendship, courtship, mar-deal of marriage means equality be-flying, unknown at the beginning of riage are all emplied of moral con- tween man and woman, but, further that decade, has been perfected. tent and come, for them, to depend love and reverence, pure and dis-fadio control has been developed on convenience and uility. To re-interested within the home; and also to a point where planes are in touch calm all this world for Christ's au responsibility to the community, with lund stutions every minute! thority is a cause worth fighting for.

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under- And it is not difficult to under- of Hfelong vows appear. The indis-single-engined

In the stand why Christ appears to make solubility of marriage is a vital cle- 1,000,000 mile record of the clippers

planes, this one exception to His usual prae-ment in the Christian conception of has been done entirely in four- tice. He was bound to refer not only love in order to provide just that at

hat | engined trans-oceanic flying boats of to love but also to law and institu-sheltered place wherein the close, in a size and type unknown ten years tions first because He was asked a timante, longstanding relationship of ago. Even the training of the fliers direct question about divorce, and, Christian marriage, the uniqueness of who are responsible for bringing the recondly, because in this matter in- each personality enn develop; where modern ocean airliners with their LONDON SERVICE ner mative must express itself in in-ench can be entirely himself to the cargoes of passengers, mail and ex- stitutional acts so soon. Hatred need love of the other for her own sake. press in an schedule, differs radically not ilnd outlet in murder, but wrong Here is a shelter and a safeguard from that of the pilots who first or Christlike love of a woman must against wayward moods and personal underlook to demonstrate that the express itself, in a vast majority of typhoons; here is a focus for God's sens could be crossed by air. And enses, in action affecting the exist gracious self-giving. The Church whereas the attempts at the begin- ing institutions of the state, at what-is fairly old and wise in human na-ning of the decade were in the last LIVERPOOL ever period he is living.

ure and rauch versed in the needs of analysis the sole concern of one or the ave

average man and What, then, is the meaning of like her Lord, lives to help the good represented in the undertaking of

woman and she, two men making a light, there is MARON Jesus' answer about divorce? Let me that is in men come true.

regular scheduled airline flying of NEW quote two passages from Dr. Lind-

con- say's book "The Maral Teaching of

Pacifle to-day all of the siderations of the older forms transportation-the care and feeding Jezus:"

of 'He was faced with a situa- tion where men determined the re-

of lations of the sexes and women were

passengers, traffic procedure, alr express and mall handling, and re- regarded as beings whose fate was

receiving gulations settled by what men chose to decide; it, with the failure? How must Hin

governing international PACIFIC transport. where it

it was taken for granted, and Church show Christ in dealing

with for

reasons that

were compelling, such breakdowns? First let us make Ten years ago silent birdmen of that a woman must belong to some sure that the first Interest of Christ-heroic stature alone flew oceans. man. You can see that assumption ions is not how to prevent people the passenger lists represented by the INWARD in the curious words

32. of verso

getting unmarried; it is

to first 1,000,000 miles of regular opera- rather "Causeth her

to commit adultery." help them to get married rightly and tion of the U.S.-Asia airway there The assumption is int if n woman to make bridges between them when are nearly as many married couples was divorced, she was bound to be a gulf has opened. Then let us make linted a single people, instances of

mean picked up by someone else. Clearly sure that verse 32 does not

whole familles, of mothers necom- that Christ requires divorce the assumption that women are to be

when one panied by their children and honey- regarded, not as persons or indivi-act of adultery has occurred. He moon couples flying the Pacific. duals in their own right, but as means does treat adultery as a sin but not,

8,110 Flying Hours only for the gratification of men's as we well

No doubt it now, as unforgivable. sexual desires was stamped which he is criticising. Jesus is cfect saying "Moses act some limits |

women

Bridging the Gulf

But gronted that lifelong marriage is part of God's gift to men and wo- men, how would Christ deal with those who break down

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caused and more injury done to Clipper, the Philippine Cilpper and your property and to get rid of them God's will and love by the blinding the Hawali Cilpper. On April 27, when you are tired of them or have inseparably of a man and woman 1937, this triumvirate was joined by no further use for them or when of whom it can no longer be said the Hongkong Clipper, with the ex- they are childless. Moses said there that they are Christian man and wife tension of the trans-Pacific airway must be a certain amount of decency do believe that for the great majority fleet of flying craft covered the first nor that God Jolns Элетт together. I from Manila to Hongkong. This about it. You must give them a writing of divorcement. But I ray of sincere Christians the way out of 1,000,000 miles in 8,119 flying hours. the whole thing is wrong. You such distress is by the way through To cover the same distance ocean under no circumstances right to ef voluntarily

accepted suffering: surface craft would have required dispose of women in that way, what no hope of Christians really influenc-The China Clipper holds the

but belleve equally that there is 50,000 hours of constant sicuring. ever the excuse may be. According ing civil legislation or of the Church record for the fastest trip over the he made one exception, allowed one its own people unless it recognises the 2,410 miles between San Francisco to the accepted version In Matthew, truly interpreting Christ's mind to longest water Jump of the route- excuse. According to the vera that a man and woman may cons-

Ira for cientiously and in loyalty to Chiriat was made eastbound on April 20-30, 1930, in the fast time of fourteen

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Ideal Marriage

them in their circumstances. The

would then know

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fornication" is a late addition seems choose divorce as the best course 10 hours and Afty-seven minutes. The to me probable. It is like Jesus to practical result of that belief is that Philippine Clipper holds the record say "The whole thing is wrong" Christians should work for the pro- for the fastest travelling time record For the whole thing implied this vision of evil legislation to facill-between Alameda and the Philippines. nttitude of men to women which is the real evil the root of trouble.' late divorce undertaken in that spirit. made from November 6 to 11, 1930.

The enquirer

The first survey flights, none of the that in secking to obey Christ's spl-milenge of which is Included in the It seems to me that in so far as if the rule for the Christian Is life-1,000,000 mile record, were started Jesus was laying down the law in long marringe, hallowed and blessed on April 16, 1935. Flight No. 1 in these verses. He was doing so for at every step from the altar to the regular scheduled operation began on Ha own fellows in His own unit. reunion beyond the grave, and en- November 22, 1935, and passenger But in doing so, once again He dowed with the power unveils that immortal spirit which forgivingness and Christ's new life 1030.

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failures; that in taking this malo Christ here teach us who live to Christians accept day?

Christ's maro be ready to perform a ceremony of Dors He

show us what searching standards of love and obli- marriage after divorce. And both marriage, what Ideal institution, Fation; and also that in exceptional the enquirer and the Christian dis any and all laws should be mado at circumstances Christians would and ciple would know that the Christian anytime to safeguard and encourage? should commit themselves And remember as we try to answer solemn intention of making a Chris-who are trying to help one another in to the Church is a body of people, a family, that that the issue to be decided is

tian thing of divorce, and that for the power of Divine assistance to live absolutely clear. We are la quest such people the Church would again true to the spirit of their Master.

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