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Show MARRIAGE JOKE TO END. On October 8 the general convention of the Episcopal church, in Detroit, will consider the revision of the marriage service, and, as predicted by the church committee on publicity, the "only joke in married life will go glimmering " as the Episcopal formula will recDg-nizc recDg-nizc the equality of woman with man. In a statement to the press the church authorities announce : The new form recognizes the 20th century equality of woman I with man in all the relations of life, making the promises and pledges of the bride in the "form of solemnization of matrimony" the same as the bridegroom's. It eliminates the word "obey" from the pledge made by the woman and eliminates this phrase from the lines of the bridegroom when he gives the ring to the bride : "And with all my worldly goods I thee endow." Tliis elimination makes the lines at the giving of the ring read as follow . "With this ring I thee wed. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." With the words 'obey him and serve him" eliminated, the pledge to be taken by the woman in the new form of the liturgy reads as follows "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinances in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love him, comfort him, honor and keep him in sickness and health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him as long as ye both shall live?" Several omissions of archaic and unnecessary phrases in the present form of service are made. In the present form, the minister min-ister at the close of the exhortation is required to say. "For be ye well assured that if any persons are joined together otherwise than as God's word doth allow, their marriage is not lawful." The new form is as follow: "For be ye well assured that if any persons are joined together togeth-er otherwise than as God's word doth allow, their marriage is not such as The Church alloweth." |