| Show MARRIAGE HARRIAGE wyth WITH A DECEASED SISTER FOR a number of years keen and persistent efforts have been made in england lancto to pass a bill through parliament legalizing marriage with a deceased cifes sister upon its first introduction the measure met with fierce and determined opposition and from none more than from the clergy the first time it was introduced it was kicked out of the house of commons but season after season it was waa presented until at last we hear that it has passed the commons by a majority of eighty in a house numbering nearly three hundred it may be rejected by the peers but its advocates consider they have 9 gained a great triumph and even if the upper branch should not pass it the they y hope by the same perseverance which they have exercised in the past to get it into its present sha aha peto eventually pass it through this law it is said has been long and systematically violated men many of them influential have married their deceased wives sisters and andt lived in deft defiance huce anee of the statute it has long been viewed by the liberal minded as an u unjust law A few years ago it was rumored that I 1 mr canchon Pun Pan chon ehon the great methodist ora orator tor was coming over to this country with the ostensible object of visiting the churches and lecturing lec lecturing turin but the real object as aaser daser asserted ted was to place flaco hinl hini himself self seif in a position to have h his s li barriage marriage with his deceased cifes sigler sisters solemnized legally an impossible PO isible thing in england the rich men who have violated the statute have I 1 children oh ildren who in law are illegitimate they have combined together and spent considerable money to have this bill become a law and to cover their eases tases by making milking their marriages 1 lagal gal gai a clause was waif inserted in the bili bill bill to make its provisions retrospective over this clause v a keen battle W was as fought but it passed the world kovesi england edgland grows more liberal bigotry has failed to accomplish com its end though clergymen thundered and religious societies petitioned against the bill cannot free publican republican Ee R e pu alican america learn a lesson of libera liberality 11 ty from this action of the british parliament i |
