18 OCTOBER 1957, Page 16

DIVORCE AND AFTER

SIR,—Yoti are to be congratulated on your fair and balanced comment.

Apart from Church law, many of us feel that the promises given in the marriage service cannot be made again to another while husband and wife are still living—whatever the circumstances. Neverthe- less, we ought to be diligent and show Christian love in our aftercare of the remarried, It is not the fault of the Church that Church law and- State law have now drifted apart on marriage. As faithful ministers of the Established Church We must not take advantage of the differences to make confusion worse confounded, but mitigate them as much as possible in helping the remarried to recon- struct their lives on spiritual foundations.--Yours faithfully,