[posted] Posted(#64733, Cowan)
David Price
ccx074 at pglaf.org
Sun Mar 7 02:58:13 PST 2021
Christian Marriage Indissoluble, by James Galloway Cowan 64733
[Subtitle: A Plain Sermon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/4/7/3/64733 ]
[Files: 64733-0.txt; 64733-h.htm]
For those wishing to know: Rev. James Galloway Cowan (1828-1875) was a
Church of England minister who had a reputation for excellent preaching.
He became the minister at Hammersmith, west London, in the 1860's and this
links him to my research interest. Although he published some collections
of sermons, when a topic was "hot" he'd publish an individual sermon so
that his views could be known in Hammersmith.
This sermon, in response to the 1857 Divorce Act says that the Church
didn't recognise any divorce - a bit rich considering the Church of
England came out of Henry's need for a divorce! He's very readable and
doesn't take the usual oft-repeated arguments.
All the best,
David,
Overcast England
PS. Cowan had a lot of children and his first wife died: he remarried but
died within a year aged 48. This second wife ended up as step-mother to a
whole house of grown-up children decades later.
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