| Show y n MARRIAGE t j i CANON REJECTED z l 1 Episcopal Hou House HOUS of Dep Deputies ties f Defeats Ba Ban Against Divorced Di Ei- Ei d Persons I I I DIVERSE VIEWS HELD V j Line Between Lay Delegates and Clergy Revealed in Debate St St. Louis Oct 14 The Th Tho house of deputies of the tho general convention cOln of ot tho the Protestant Episcopal church hero today rejected tho proposal t to embody its forbidding in its canons a 2 provision to solemnize marriage for forn fora clergymen n a person divorced from a 0 living spouse Tho The s1 six I hours' hours debate which preceded tho action Indicated wide who difference of oC tho the church opinion among members of or I Tho recommendation was contained in inI I i tho report of or a. a Joint committee composed composed com corn posed of or five thc bishops five lo clergymen and fI the five l laymen appointed three years relating to matri- matri matters ago igo to study y its toda today tho the lower house j I I 13 Its action of ot the convention placed In abe I I for at least three years cars further con consideration consid id- id J of oC any such amendment The I present canon provides that a n cler clergyman clergyman clergy clergy- r- r man of ot tho church may remarry the innocent party to a n divorce granted on statutory grounds s. s The proposal Is pending in tho house of or bl hops tho the upper house nn and will willbo willbo bo ho brought to vote next Tuesday Tu ar Such action will be bo merely for or the tho purpose of ot indicating the tho attitude altitude of or tho the bIshoPs I for cor no nn change In tho canons can bo tie ma made e without concurrence of or both bothI I houses Laity Wins In Balloting on the tho amendment was b by dioceses and the line between tho the clerIcal clerical cler cler- ical and lay delc delegates at s was clear cut the clergy voting to adopt the tho proposal arid and the tho lay delegates rejecting it While the he fight on tho floor loor for the tho proposed ld innovation was wa led b by th the f Rev Rov r Leighton Parks of New cw York and andi the opposition headed b by the TIM Rev Dr i 1 E II IT McKim of ot Washington perhaps the most spill spirited objections were ere eret t i voiced b by the Rev John Howard Mo- Mo hIsh of oC Brooklyn 1 J If li you ou CU pass this law there are men 1 in the tho church who will deC defy it and andi i 1 take the consequences he said I 1 should favor Cavor this resolution if it it were r a question of oC legislating for the thel rich l' l Dr sa said cald leI there are aro man many In Instances instances In- In stances stanc s of oC women with children abandoned abandoned aban aban- b by their husbands husban s who would bo ho driven cn to extremities for tor a livelihood li the they could remarry It would be well for 01 us to draw raw our ourI robes about us ho he added sa say we wo are I I going to uphold a standard and shift the responsibility but such action would conflict with the fundamental tenets of ot Christianity Dr Parks urged that tho the passage pt of ot the resolution was vas necessary to protect j the children In this corrupt and adulterous generation let us go on record as ns setting the of or our church in accordance with the ideals of or Jesus Christ ho said I Objection t. t Richard II H. Dana of or Cambridge e. e eIas Mass opposed tho the proposal on ritualistic grounds rounds quoting from tho the Episcopal marriage marring service I lOr forsake nil nfl others f and keep unto theo until death do us part Ho Ire described this phrase as JS a n nI I contract and said that if it an any part of the contract Is 15 broken it renders tho the whole hole void and that if It el either tho the man manor or the th woman oman does doon not forsake e all others tho the Innocent party part has aI a n I right to remarry The Rov Roy William M. M Grosvenor of oC Now York t said ald i. i Wo We o must cling to our Ideals ho said The whole situation the tho whole bolo I divorce problem la Is setting getting BO so serious I that It is impossible for Christian people people peo pen pie to stand it much longer longor Today I j. j weve we've reached the point whore where tho the I church standing before tho the great American public has hos got to stop Quibbling 1 bling hung Lets LetB cling to our Ideals ls and ad adopt adept pt this resolution I Application of ot business efficiency b methods in iii handling church and and parochial n. n affairs was urged in tho the re report report re- re port of oC the commission on church business busi busl- ness presented by Robert C O. Pruyn n of ot Alban Albany X N. Y I |
