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A Church Marriage Forbidden

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 25, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 20.

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A Church Marriage Forbidden

At the recent restoration of a church occupied by the advanced Ritualists in England, one of the workmen employed ascended the pulpit and exclaimed. "I publish the bans of matrimony between this Church and the Church of Rome!" "And I," said another artisan, toward the first speaker, "forbid the bans." "On what grounds?" inquired he of the pulpit. "Because the parties are too near o'kin," was the reply.