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Show NO NAME TO CONJURE WITH. High churchmen of the more advanced ad-vanced order want to be known as Catholics for many reasons. Some of them find that the name Protestant is not an altogether lovely one to conjure con-jure with in the field of morals, So thinks the Rev. E. W.- Worthington of Cleveland, O. He does not believe in divorce, and takes his church seriously when she bids him not to remarry" divorced di-vorced persons. He writes: "There came to my rectory last week a man from the country, tl was easily evident evi-dent from his embarrassed speech that his errand was matrimonial. For a prelude, he abused the weather as not what 'good people' ought to have and finally reached his point by saying: say-ing: "I am i'inr to get married Th; woman is coming on the next car. We'll be here at five o'clock.' "But, my friend, I interposed, have either of you been divorced?' Without a blush the man replied: 'Yes. both of us. You see. I couldn't get along with my wife, and the woman couldn't get along with her husband. So we both got divorced, and we're going to hitch.' "I can't marry mar-ry you," was the prompt reply. 'My church has a law against such marriages. mar-riages. With an expression cf the utmost ut-most surprise, this man from the country coun-try looked me in the face and gasped: Gosh! I thought you vs Prote.r-;.m. This is one of the occasions when a priest cf the v!i- rch u proud to say "Thank God. Lam not a Protestant.' And yet, without walking many blocks this man from the country would probably prob-ably find a minister of the same church willing to marry him to the woman, despite the forbidding canon, and despite de-spite the odium which attaches to this distinctively Protestant act. Hartford Catholic Transcript. |
