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...Memphis courtroom last week stood Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, popular dean of smart St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Pallid and ascetic, Dean Noe was painfully embarrassed. All Memphis was privy to the domestic secrets of the deanery in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe began a divorce suit against her husband last year, charging that for three years he had lived a separate life in their house (TIME...
Postponed last October because a reconciliation seemed possible, the Noe divorce suit took two days to try last week. Dean Noe said he had not left his wife's bed without "great struggle of mind." He loved her. But the marriage relationship, he declared, had to be reconciled with the teachings of the Bible. With a colleague he had debated long and solemnly these words of St. Paul...
Against them Dean Noe and his theological friend set these other words of the Apostle...
Sympathetically, curiously has Memphis, Tenn., watched the affairs of Dean Israel Harding Noe of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, whose wife sued him for di-vorce last February because he believes that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control" (TIME, May n). Last week Memphis was given another sympathetic, curious peep into his private life, his checkbook and his house in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Noe's amended charges included cruelty, extravagance and desertion as well as coldness. In an amended answer to her bill, Dean Noe replied in great detail. He had not been cruel...
Once more Dean Noe reiterated his belief "that all sexual relationship should be creative, whether for the purpose of procreation or fellowship, and should lead ultimately to that perfect expression of love which is neither dependent upon physical contact or lessened by distance...