Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1912 — CHANGE IN WEDDING RITUAL [ARTICLE]

CHANGE IN WEDDING RITUAL

New Amendment Agreed to by the Lower House of Convocation at Canterbury.

London. —The Canterbury lower house of convocation agreed to a modification of the marriage service by substituting the words, “Bestow, we beseech thee, upon these two persons the heritage and gift of children” for the existing too plain spoken form. Some objection was made to the change, but the general sentiment of the convocation was in favor of it The Dean of Winchester remarked that many passages of scripture would bring out higher ideals than are expressed4n thewordsof Peter ~and Paul, who had Ideas about wives that Christianity has largely altered. The house of convocation of York has called upon the government to forbid the disseminating, of Mormonism in the United Kingdom.