Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Churchmen are solemnly considering the removal of the "little joker" from the Episcopal marriage service. Wives need no longer promise to obey their husbands, if the proposed revision of the marriage ceremony recommended by Bishop Coadjutor Slattery of Massachusetts be adopted by the Episcopal Triennial General Convention which is to meet at New Orleans today...
...mere men, seem to have approached their task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...
...when the caveman's cudgel went out of fashion. For that matter why was it ever put in at all? Of course it found its way in at the instigation of some blundering male. But what man had the temerity to believe that exacting a woman's promise to obey would give him the mastery...
...Omit from the marriage service the word "obey" and the phrase "with all my worldly goods I thee endow...
...compliance with the duly enacted laws even at one's discomfort or personal loss. Question the expediency or wisdom of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act and do what you can to bring about their modification or repeal if you believe them to be unnecessary or injurious, but obey them both. Democracy cannot endure without habitual obedience. That is axiomatic. On the other hand, it cannot progress to its highest state through standardization, extrinsic suppression or legislative restraints. It can have that hope only through the self-disciplined virtues of its individual citizens. New York Times