Show DIVORCE AND POLYGAMY from the roberts case to the lax and remarriage is but laws on divorce a step and the wide discussion ct the chave provoked much comment one seems to on the other some writers have said ithac there Is quite as great a involved in the loose moral question allowed throughout bonds of matrimony the land as there is in that of open and pronounced polygamy lately the issue of divorce has found its way into the councils of the episcopal church and one instance in particular promises to develop into a great con according to the new york troverse tro versy sun a committee appointed by the last convention of the new york diocese of the episcopal church having requested the clergy to admonish their keople concerning marriage and divorce the rov dr batten gave his views on the subject As reported they were not very clearly defined though he seems to favor the continuance cf the existing episcopal canon allowing remarriage ot the innocent party in a divorce for adultery A strong party in that church h however esnow cin strenuously in a movement to make marriage in for any causa and apparently it be ful in influencing ht next general convention which at francisco in 1901 commenting the sun says whether however the advocates of the reman catholic theory or dogma of the sacramental character 0 marriage will be successful is very doubtful for the agitation which has arian over the subject has been due to a flagrant and widespread contempt of the authority of the church in the premises which might be increased and intensified by a severer canon than the present inthe society vt fashion repents and disobeys the 3 baitlon of divorce for a single cause as presumptuous interference with indi inclinations whose gratification 1 is allowable by the civil law of nearly nil the states it may be regarded by the convention as inexpedient to provoke still further rebellion by going to the extreme of forbidding divorce altogether the whole trouble however proceeds from practical denial of the supernatural origin and authority of the church by many of both its laity andeits clergy so that its law has lost power over their consciences thus there have arisen two radically conflicting parties whose quarrel may have to be settled at the general con before revision i will je in order 1 |