Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — DIVORCE LAW IS RIGID. [ARTICLE]

DIVORCE LAW IS RIGID.

Episcopalians Would Prohibit Remarriage Inside of One Year. By an overwhelming majority a compromise canon on the remarriage of divorced persons was adopted by the house of deputies of the Episcopal general convention in Boston, and if it is concurred in by the house of bishops the most important issue that has come before the convention will be disposed of for at least three years. The compromise measure, like the old law, permits the remarriage of the innocent person in a divorce for infidelity, but provides that no remarriage shall be allowed within one year after a decree has been issued by a civil court. Satisfactory proof of the innocence of the applicant for remarriage must be furnished in the shape of court records, and after the consent of the bishop is obtained a clergyman may refuse to perform such a ceremony without subjecting himself to censure or discipline. In the last day's session of the Baptist General Association at Springfield the project of semiring a universal divorcelaw for the various States was indorsed. The National Congregational Council in Des Moines was adjourned Thursday night. The committee appointed to coneider the divorce question reported recommending that a committee of five be appointed .to study the question, for a period of three years. The council refused to draw the color line by adding the word “colored” after the names of negro churches.