26 JUNE 1920, Page 3

Where collusion is easy it is. already - easy under the

existing law. We cannot think-that harm willresult from:approximating; to the practice: of other. Protestant countries; On the contrary,. we export considerable-benefit through better- conditions for the children of .deeecrated maniages and through the -reduction of irregular unions. If to; ensure less cruelty and lees suffering; among innocent. men, women: :and children is not Christian, we must be mistaken in our reading, Christianity: But as. the debates in. the Lords have turned largely upon the words of our Lord. about divorce,. let us say once more: that, as we understand: the matter; our Lord never laid_down statutory rules, -but appealed in every case to the- Divine law, which. is the. law of perfection, the ideal.