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'Don't Brand Divorce

Innocents With Disgrace Of The Guilty'

1937.

-Bishop Of Durham

DR. HENSLEY HENSON, the Bishop of Durham, speaking at Durham Diocesan Conference, strongly denounced the view that in cases of remarriage of divorced people the Church should treat the innocent like the guilty.

· Dealing with the Matrimonial Cautres "Act, 'he' said that mány bishops had stated that in no circum- stances might divorced persons be rightly permitted to marry in parish churches.

He considered that was unsound in! principle and polley, and it was clear- ly his duty frankly to dissociate him- self from it.

He could not approve a procedure which made no difference between the guilty and the Innocent, but sub- Jected all divorced persons without distinction to the same disablilly and disgrace.

"Kept-Wives" Are Such

Bores, Says

Lady Rhondda

"I do not understand," he said. "DEVITALISED bores, whom "why the Church should treat an any fully alive person will offenders against the law of Christ go miles to avoid having to those Christian people (hemselves

Ive meet."

in no merely technical sense lano-

cent parties), who have exercised Thus Lady Rhondda, in her book, the liberty of marriage after "Notes on the Way" (Macmillan, divorce whilch from the apostelio 63.) describes the majority of "kept- ages has been allowed in churches. wives"-women economically depen- and

which is to-day everywhere dent on their husbands, and with too allowed outside the papalittle to occupy their energles. obedience.

WHY INSEPARABLE?

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"Why should they be publicly humiliated and, through marriage, She admits that there are numer- treated as immoral?

exceptions-wives who have "I suggest our rigorists should re-achieved a real life and responsibili flect on he requirements of the third tles"; and, she adds, "mothers of Commandment, and make sure that large families remain much in their zeal they are not taking the interesting than the others." Lord's name in vain."

DRUNK IN CHARGE-

OF A HORSE SAID to have driven his thorough

bred hunter into a wayside inn, Norman Liewelin, aged 30, a Fish guard farmer, was fined £1 at Mathry for being drunk while in charge of the animal.

P. C. John Bowen said the horse fell in the inn, damaging furniture and frightening the landlady.

Asked by the clerk if the animal drank beer, Constable Bowen stated that Licwellin said he could teach his horse to do anything-even to smoke cigarettes.

Old Adage Outmoded

Salem, Ore.

Making hay while the sun shines may be out of date within a few years, according to the department of agriculture, which describes artificial drying methods. The drying is done by passing the healed air or hot furnace gases through the for- are on in endless apron conveyor or in a revolving drum.

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that Lady Rhondda advocales wives should continue to earn their keep after marriage, and that husbands

domestic should share responsibilities.

"It is amazing," she writes, "how many husbands still manage to put the idea across that, domestically.

spacing, they are unteachable mor-

And why, she asks, continue to

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