Religion: Matter of Discipline

He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Even before St. Paul wrote these words in his letter to the Corinthians, Christians were debating whether or not the dedicated man of God should marry. Last fortnight in Wolverhampton, England, the Rev. Wilfrid Ellis, 60, Anglican bachelor vicar of St. George's Church, took a contemporary look at the matter in his parish magazine:

"I have always maintained that if our clergy must marry...

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