| Show TUB Tim mOI CH New York Post J ost Pe The Conference Indicates that some somo head headway way 11 Ia being made In bringing about practical unity As twelve Prot Proto denominations wore represented at nt tho the conference this may moy prove provo to tu ho be n it 1 very measure The Tho Tim church has always been strongest In it h I evil 11 y The Tho period which witnessed Its lis birth and Its most rapid develop merit meat was wall troubled with the tho same ame social laxity lull that pervades our divorce probe lem The Tho church Is today confronted with Ith conditions tar far more serious than any theories of oC I succession or what trot not The long hart hard struggle necessary to overcome these conditions condition may mn possibly prove u a aP P means to permanent religious unity Now Nosy York As A things now are Ire In violation of the tho comity which should shou exist clergymen of or one denomination often otten are aro parties to tho time violation of the rules rilles of other churches thus not only Increasing die respect for Cor ecclesiastical eccle authority but actually encouraging the breaking of oC solemn personal obligations The re cc reo form Corm proposed Is simply an analogue of at atthe the rule rille concerning the lex loci which prevails In the civil courts The Tho con can conference conference ference was liS of at the In this It doubtless reflects the prevailing view new I w that it U IB Is unwise t to 6 agitate for a con can constitutional amendment on which a n na nn national divorce law low could be based It Is In deemed better that effort should bo be bocon confined con n d to persuading the several states to take Independent common nc no nelion notier tier lion more mort strictly limiting divorce Minneapolis Tribune Thoughtful persons have been bean Agitating Jag ing In for a long time the e reform of the contused confused and antl clashing marriage marTiago laws of these thee states which legalize 1 Indirectly practices practiced hardly less disgusting and more moro dangerous to society than the plural marriages of ot Utah The first movement for tor n a national marriage Uw had to be abandoned In utter titter hopeless hopelessness ness of getting practical results with within in the next century The secondary movement for tor securing marriage reform by all nil the states separately Is te hardly more hopeful That would require ac nc action action tion by every state legislature le while of ot the whole who e could ratify a II a constitutional amendment for a na no national law Now It begins to look ns IlK If tIm 1110 senates Investigation might stir tho the country to marriage reform more than years ot of agitation |
