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CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE
8.30.
THIS
EVENING
8.30.
“Th
f
the
Circus”
e Lure
of
the
Circus
Universal Serial
Featuring
°
11
“Eddie Polo”.
Episode
15:
THE STOLEN RECORD).
Episode
16:
THE KNOCKOUT.
Show coneluding
with:
¢
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.
A Ragtime
Romance
Comedy
2 Reels.
Remember
only one
more
show of THE LURE OF Tiily CIRCUS,
ADMISSION:
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Two first and
two last
rows of leserved
seats.
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“*hildren 20 and
10ec.
Mails Close
for the
United States,
Europe,
ete.
per 8,
3. Guiana,
as
Y 2 m.
tomor-
row 20th.
It would be of advantage
ifmatter for registration
be present-
ed and money orders
parchased
to-
day where practicable
to do so.
CORRECTION
In the local
section
of Saturday’s
is-
sue,
4th. item,
14th line from the top,the
date
mentioned
should read
March 26th.,
instead
of April.
LOCAL.
-
Readers
are
reminded
of
the
show
this evening
at which
there
will
be
pre-
sented
some
of the
most attractive
parts
in
the
grand
serial
now
drawing
to
a
close.
The
S.
S.
Guiana
from
the Islands
ar-
rived at Frederiksted
on Saturday
morn-
ing,
is
now~
taking
in
sugar
from
the
Bethlehem
concern
and
is
expected
to
leave
some
time tomorrow.
In informed cireles
it is commented
up-
on that reports
submitted
to
the
Police
by the
Food “ommission
and
policemcn,
of merchants
violating
the provisions of
the
IFood
Ordinance.
have
either
been
pigeon-holed
or committed
to
the
prover-
bial waste-paper-basket
no
action
hav-
ing
'been
taken,
At
this
rate
it
is
no
wonder
that
merchants,
especially
in
Frederiksted,
have
sold
their
su-
gar
at
prices
higher
than
regulated
by the Food Commission.
Jt is peirted
out that the defect
which
rénde
s
the
Food
Ordinance
short
of
what
is
expected
of it,
is the
provision
that
local prices
shall
be fixed at
not
to
exceed
the
highest
price
obtainable
by
export.
Through
this it is very easy
to
have
prices
carried
up by
enlisting
the
complicity of parties
abroad into making
bogus
offers
in
order
to
influence
the
prices
of products
here.
It would
be
very
commendable
if some
member
of
the
Council would
introduce
an
amend-
ment
to have that
provision al‘ered
so
as
to have prices
fixed by some
other
means
whereby
a reasonable:
valuation
may
be
placed
upon
products.
Correspondence.
Editor St.
Croix Avis:
Sir:—The
very
serious
letter
from
"'Follower’’,
in the
‘‘Avis’”’of the
14th
inst.,
is one of
more
than
passing
mo-
ment.
It reflects
the
tendencies
of
one
in
the chureh
that is
bent
on creating
a
disruption.
The canons
of the Protes ant
Kipiscopal
Church
of the United
States,
is
so peculiar,
that
it
is
not
surprising
if even
the
lergy,
much
less
the
laity,
have
sometimes
failed
to
understand
them.
“‘Follower’’ states
in
hijs
letter
that “‘we would
like to hear from al,
or_any
one elise
of his views’’ etc.
It has
often
been
pointed
out by
ec-
clesiastical
historizns,
tha
the
Anglican
Church
system
reflects
the
primitive
ideal
of
apostolic
times.
TILIL
THE
REIGN OF JUSTINIAN THE CHURCH
HAD
NO LAWS
II'DEPENDENT
OF
THE
STATE.
Evr. after
that
time
there
was
no
canon
w
recognized
till
the 12th century,
when
the papal decrees,
and
false
decretals
were
bound
up
with
the
Decretum
of Gratian,
a
monk
of
ltaly.
The
s!mctity
of. marriage
is
of
special
interest
at
the
present
moment.
it
has
been
invaded
in America
by
the
laxity of a social
standard
that has
allow-
ed
during
the last
35
years
nearlv
one
miliion
cases
of
divorce
in
the
United
States
alone.
It has
been
invaded
afreskh
by
the papacy,
which
proposes
to annul
ail
mixed
marriages
of
Romans
with
Protestants,
and,
in
consideration
of the
usual
money
payment,
allowed the '.ke
of Aosta
to marry
h's
own
niece.
If we
altentively consider
“"Follower’s’’ letter,
we
mighi
be
led
to
imagine
that
the
L P
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living voices’
of
the Church
are
almost
fiercely fanatical.
What
constitutes
narriage it would
be
difficult exactly
to
define.
This
very
fact
alone 'is
proot
that
marriage
is
a
thing
of
so
general
institution
that
it
accommodates
itself
to
local
and
racial
views
of its imrort
as
a
sacrament.
It
cannot,
therefore,
be
dependent
upon
the
Church’s
sanction
for
validity.
Adam
was in one
sense
in
the marriage
state,
before
the
Fall.
Even
then,
in
his sinless
state.,
we
are told. it was
not
good
for man
to be
alore.
In
the 16th
century,
marriage
was
regarded
by
the
compilers
of
Articles
and
Homilies,
Church
of England
(article
XXV pp
316, 446, ed oxon.
1840)
as
no sacrament.
but
as
a
state
of
life
allowed
in
the
scriptures.
In
the
18th
century
Black-
stone
(defined
miarriage
as
essentially
consisting
in the mutual
and free consent
of
both
parties
to the
contract.
It
is
true,
itis an
ordinance
of
CGod.
_So
is
every other econtract.
God commands
me
to keep it when I have
made
it.
Among
the Jews,
under
the Old and
New Testa-
ment,
asin
the notable
instanceof
St.
Joseph,
and St.
Mary,
(St. Matthew
1.
18.)—-no
theoecratic
ordinance
was
even
considered
necessary
to ratify the mutual
consent
ol the parties,
At. first,
from
the
necessity
of
the
case
marriage
was
without
any
res-
triction
other
than
thuse
which
the law
ol nature
in its moral
consciousness
de-
termined
as being
immoral.
That is
w
0
say,
there
were
no
restrictions
Imposed
Ab extra.
Thus
Cain
married
his
ds-
ter, which
afterwards
became
the
tra-
gition
of the
Egyplian
and
Abyssinian
Kings,
was
a necessity
which afterwards
excited
the
horror even of
the
heathen.
While
“‘Follower”” may feel
himself
in
some
sort
still affected
by the
ruling of
unrepealed
and
MEDEAVAL CANON
LAWS,
yet
disobedience
to
a
canon
law,
does
not
ipso facto
involve
ex-
communication
in this obsolete
town
Yours
ete
G E.
A,
19, April 1920.
Frederiksted,
17th April 1920.
The "Guiana’ and **'Korona’’ arrived
this morning
at 6 o’clock.