Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — May Draw The Line on the Grassy Ones. [ARTICLE]

May Draw The Line on the Grassy Ones.

It is about a settled fact that the Methodist ministers of Indianapolis will in the future refuse to remarry persons who have been divorced. At a meeting of the ministers early last week a paper was read to them by Rev. E. A. Schell, presiding elder of the Crawfordsville district, in which he advocated that there was no cause for divorce while there might be for separation and went so far as to say that people who had been divorced ought not to be permitted to become members of the chureh. It was bis belief also that marriages ought to be recognized as lhe third saorement, but that point was noti endorsed by allot the clergy pre-| sent at the meeting. The paper created quite an excitement among the ministers, who admit to have officiated at marriages where the contracting parties had been previously married and divorced, but they promise not to do so again. . It is understood that there is a likelihood of the matter of divorcee will come up before the next general conference of the M. E. church for action one way 'or the other.