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Show Church Interference in Divorce Affairs Chicago Divine Mokes Startling Statements Upon the Subject in a Sermon. CHICAGO. June 13. In a sermon on divorce the Rev. Pearse Pinch haa declared in Forestville Congregational Congrega-tional church that the attempts on tho part of tho stronger coclesiastical bodies to whip preachers into line will only result in fresh disaster to the home. "Instead of settling the divorce Question," Ques-tion," said the minister, "Jesus left the whole subject open. "Ministers are not compelled to say that all persons divorced for anything but the 'one cause' shall not marry again. They are free to teach what obvious ob-vious justice and humanity require, and not a harsh law that Jeau3 never gave. If, for example, a woman refuses to live with a man who Is a drunken brute and getB a divorce from him, and later marries a decent man, no preacher le bound to denounce such marriage. "Divorce Is too light a punishment for offenders against the marriage tie. The most serious offenses ought to mean Imprisonment for life. It is not laxity for which I plead, but the right to teach not some outrageous rule that Jesus never gave but that which tb.c jdtUftUJUAUfle" "' |