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That English marriage is a kind of marriage for the people of England, and not an exclusive Christian form, ought to be well known, not only to the European Christian Societies out here, but also to the Europeanized Natives in Lagos and the Interior who can hardly distinguish between the claims of what are best known to them as House and Church Marriages.

Much ignorance has been shown on the question of celebrating marriages in the House and in the Church and without studying the English idea, and its position to the christian Native Converts of European Churches maintain that marriage of two christians other than that celebrated in licensed places of worship is "Unchristian".

An effort is here made to show the claims of single plural marriages, and of marriages celebrated in the House and in the Church,

April, 1921.