HIGH TIME TO DRAW THE LINE
By L. E. F.
Dare the Christian church of the twentieth century assume the position that the attitude of her divine Founder was needlessly strict and severe? Let us beware of that "liberality" which is but a cloak for license. It is enough for the disciple that he be as narrow as his Lord. It is high time for the Christian ministry to come in line with the Biblical principle governing divorce. Let them refuse to become a party to this iniquitous and unscriptural business. Let them decline to officiate at the remarriage ceremony of divorced persons who secure their papers on other than Scriptural grounds. Those who decry this antibiblical practice, and cling to the New Testament standard, will doubtless be called narrow, fanatical, old-fashioned. So let it be. We take our position deliberately. In no other way could we be true to our convictions, and faithful to our charge. We register our protest against the daring freedom of the twentieth century that has debased marriage into a temporary contract, to be broken at the whim, or passion, or will, of either of the contracting parties.