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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 8, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 19.

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Scriptural Divorce

By Editor

WE believe that the principle stated in the following question and answer, which we clip from the Word and Way of April 17, would be applicable not alone to Baptist ministers, but to Seventh-day Adventists as well: —
“Is it right,” asks one of our readers, “for a Baptist minister to marry a couple, one being divorced?” Back of this is the question, “Should divorced persons marry?” We think they may if they have been Scripturally divorced. Any Scripturally divorced person may remarry. But the Scriptures know only one ground of divorce. Divorce on any other ground is unscriptural. We do not believe that it is right for a Baptist minister or any one else to officiate at the marriage of persons not Scripturally divorced.