Plighted Vows in Church
Plighted Vows in Church is an article published in the Daily Express on 21 march 1918.
On the same page of the newspaper a brief news quoting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was added. See below.
Plighted Vows in Church
BISHOP ON THE SOLEMNITY OF BETROTHAL.
The Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Russell Wakefield), presiding at a conference on "Marriage and Parenthood," at Caxton Hall, yesterday, said:—
"We very seldom hear of a Church asking people to hesitate before they commit themselves for all time to union one with the other. I am old-fashioned enough to wish that there could be still some solemn service of betrothal before the actual marriage takes place, in order that the solemnity of the whole surroundings of marriage shall be deepened to the hearts of those proposing to come together."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, president of the Divorce Law Reform Union, said that England was more backward than any other Protestant country in the severity of its restrictions on divorce.
"Women are the greatest sufferers from the bondage and torture of unhappy marriages,"
he said.
"When they turn to the Church for comfort and help they are merely told to bear their misfortunes patiently. Such women appeal hopefully to my society, and are waiting for a reform of the laws to release them from degrading slavery."
News in Brief
"We have 200,000 graves in France and we want 200,000 cradles in England."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Caxton Hall yesterday.
