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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presbyterian rule has held that only desertion and adultery are legitimate grounds for divorce. In this Presbyterians have been more liberal than most Christian denominations. Most admit only adultery as a divorce cause. A Presbyterian minister might properly marry a divorce only if the person were the innocent derelict of desertion or the innocent cheat of adultery. And, because the minister has had free discretion to judge marital innocence, amiable pew-holders occasionally have tried to strain his goodwill...
...WHEREAS the application of these principles to certain cases calls on a minister to interpret what is irremediable willful desertion and what is injustice to an innocent person who has been divorced for Scriptural reasons-interpretations not always easy to make, having regard both to his duty to maintain Christ's ideal of marriage and to show Christian sympathy with those who have been the victim of tragic wrong...
...RESOLVED that the Presbytery appoint a committee of counsel to consist of two ministers and one ruling elder who is also a lawyer (said committee to be chosen so as to be easily accessible) and that Presbytery urge all its ministers when they are asked to remarry any divorced person concerning whose right to remarriage there appears to be the slightest question to bring all the papers and all relative information to this committee and to be guided by their judgment in acceding or refusing to perform the desired marriage...
...England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...felt lonely; and, save for her dog, Musket, she was all alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than twelve...