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Show Searches Bible For Divorce Defense NKW YOKK, Feb. 1 (N. E. A. 8tsff Special,. Hour In and hour out, day and nUht, Mr. Carolina Kriesner pores over thj Old Teatament. Jacob Kriesner, her husband, found In tha Old Testament ground for a divorce action against her. I So aha aeeks now to answer tha Blbla with the Bible. Kriesner base his plea for divorce on the following enea which he found tn tha twenty-fifth chapter of Ieuteronomy : "If brethren shall dwell together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead ahull not marrr without, unto a stranger; hr huahand'a brother shall take hr to him to wife and perform the duty nf an hmfrand ' IrMher-TUTTS'Tier. IrMher-TUTTS'Tier. "And If the man Ilk) not to take his brother's wife then shall his brother's wifa come unto him and Iocs his shoe from olf his foot and spit in his face." Kriesner was a widower, his wife waa a widow when ihey ntarried. Ha now Invokes In-vokes the ancient Munaic law, saying Mm. Knegner did not offer herself in marriage to her husband brother. "Neer before has a man In this country tried to set rid of his wife, on a religious scruple," aeya airs. Kriesner. "Religion should he used to keep people together, not to separate them. "In theae days a hat woman would offer here If in marriage to any man. brother-in-law or not? the Kible, and .one of them is bound to fit mv side of th.s eaje. "That law 1 shall tind. If my eye hold O'lt " |