The Church Congress: Archbishop of York on Church and State: President’s Address: The Jubilee Church Congress opened Tuesday at Cambridge with religious services at Ely Cathedral and Great St. Mary’s Church, Cambridge, at which the sermons were preached by the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Norwich. … … Marriage among Degenerates: The Congress met on Wednesday morning in two sections, the subject of Christian unity beings discussed at the Corn Exchange by the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Birmingham, the Bishop of Hull, Bishop Ingham, the Rev. Professor Whitney, and other speakers. In the other section, heredity and social responsibility was the subject of papers by Dr. E. Shuttleworth and Mrs. Pinsent, who spoke on the necessity of segregating the feebleminded with a view to diminishing the propagation of the unfit. Two papers were contributed on “Parentage,” in one of which the Bishop of Ripon dealt with the declining birth rate and urged the discouragement of marriage among the diseased, the feeble-minded, the alcoholic, and the tuberculous.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949