la speaking about marriage, He was speaking to the Jews
who seriously discussed the multitudinous grounds of divorce as analysed in the writings of Hillel, Shammai, and the rest. Our Lord said in effect, if we may venture without irreverence to paraphrase His words, " All this is irrelevant. There is nothing but • God's law. So far as you fall short of that you fail of perfection." But that our Lord did not provide detailed rules of life is recognized by most people when they are considering such injunctions as to sell all that they have and give to the poor, or never to resist those who injure them. For some reason the conditions under which our Lord spoke are generally left out of account in considering -divorce. What seems to vs,the truer and also the more practical Christian view has been most ably stated lately in a University sermon -at Cambridge by the Rev. Alfred Fawkes, and by .Archdeacon Charles in. Westminster Abbey.
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