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Show "INDIGNITIES" WOMEN SUFFER Spiritual Militancy League Starts Campaign Against Angellcan Marriage Service London, April 7. A campaign against tho "Indignities" to women contained In tho Angellcan marriage service, Is the latest effort of the Suf-fragsts' Suf-fragsts' Spiritual Militancy League. Fifteen Buch moral humnattons arc mentioned In tho manifesto which the leaguo Is sending not only 10 every clergymnn of every church In England, Eng-land, but to all persons whose forthcoming forth-coming marrlago is announced in the dally papers. The first two Indignities nlleged aro tho words "obey and serve him," which tho brldo ls required to .repeat and tho question put by tho minister "Who glveth this woman to bo married mar-ried to this man?" Ono of the remodles suggested for both Is the omission of the wordB, the alternative Is that tho bridegroom bo required to promise to "obey her and servo her,' and that the minister also OBk, "Who glveth this man to be married mar-ried to this woman?" Three Indignities surround tho marrlago mar-rlago ring and tho bridegroom's accompanying ac-companying declaration. "Tho words 'With all my worldly goods t thoo on-1 dow' havo never been true," says tho manifesto. Tho government is urged to drop the ring ceremony nnd its formula or to enforco nn exenango of rlngB nnd tho uso of a formula containing con-taining "no economic falsehoods or moral offense." Hlmlllatlon No. 7 ls tho minister's pronouncement that they shall be man and wife together. The Implication Implica-tion complained of Is that "tho woman wo-man Is wholly a wifo ana the man not wholly a husband." Protesting that the first of tho psalms addresses Itself wholly to tho bridegroom, tho league demands Its omission or that It Is supplemented by anothor addressed to the wife. Tho petition that the man ahall love his wife ns Christ tho church, Is an "apphlllng humiliation of women wom-en and a pernicious exattatlon of men." Tho thirteenth Indignity Is quoting St. Paul's words: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto tho Lord; for the husband la the head of the wife, even as Christ Is tho head of the church." Tho league strenuously opposes op-poses the Idea of tho husband being tho head of .the wife ana suggests: "Husbands, nlso submit yourselves unto your wives" as a supplement to this Bccond exhortation to the wlfo. m |