| Show THE PROMISE TO OBEY should it remain a part of the mar nage service in ministerial circles there Is a live ly agitation over the question whether the word obey in tue the marriage ice la is not superfluous the officiating clergyman at a marralle marr alge service depre not only the human law but the spirit of the divine law lie he Is 1 es specially pec lally ally anxious not to require an ob gation ll that will not be considered binding on the conscience of the party to a marriage to whom it applies one clergyman has taken the ground that it if the woman was required to promise to obey the man should be subject to the same requirement if this means anything it means that the parties to a marriage should take turns in obey ing each other when an issue arises both cannot command and both obey the advocates of the elimination of the word obey from the marriage service plant themselves upon the im pregnable ground that a boman no more than a man should be ed to make a promise that in her heart or mind she did not intend to keep heep the marriage is happy in which situations do not arise which justify a liberal construction of the promise to obey As laws which cannot be enforced are the weak link in the chain of laws care should be tal en not to impose conditions of doubtful utility better not make a promise than make one and break it san francisco bulletin |
