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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 24, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 20.

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Divorce and Marriage.

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The Napa Register says:—
“The clergymen of Los Angeles, including Rev. A. J. Wells, late pastor of the M. E. Church, Napa, have announced through the press of that city that they will not perform the marriage service for divorced persons, except the divorce be obtained on Scriptural grounds, and then for the innocent party only.”
This is the course we marked out for ourselves, as the readers of the SIGNS know; the course which we have always acted upon. And we cannot imagine how a minister of the gospel can conscientiously pursue any other. Our laws of divorce are too loose, and no sanction should be given to their looseness by those who take upon themselves the office of expounding the words of Christ to the world. The welfare and protection of society demand a wise and just national law governing divorces and marriages. Had this existed, the problem of “the Mormon abomination” might have been readily solved.