Affinity No Bar to Marriage

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AFFINITY NO BAR TO MARRIAGE,

BY

JOHN B. GALE.

TROY, N. Y.:
William H. Young.
1881.

​If Bishop Doane's "God's Law of Marriage," directed against marriage with a deceased wife's sister, had been limited to argument, it would not have retained my attention. But his coarse treatment of the subject, and his unjust association of impure motives with such marriages, provoked inquiry into the old Canons against them, which he was trying thus to revive.

Meanwhile, thoughts were frequent of the distress that his Attack was carrying to many homes, as the subjects of such public-defamation; and not unlikely to some consciences, made doubtful of the right, by a Bishop's confident assertion of an accusing "God's law." And thus a duty pressed upon me, to contribute the results of my study, to the relief of the injured, and the vindication of the Truth.

The subject has linked itself with others, and been followed wherever it led. Its treatment has demanded the use of some plain terms, but needless indelicacies have been avoided.

J. B. G.

Troy, N. Y., April, 1881.

A copy of this pamphlet will, on request, be mailed to any clergyman.

Chapters (not listed in original)

  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2

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