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Peter as at liberty to take his wife about with him if he thought fit. Further, that St. Paul where he advises celibacy plainly says that his advice is for the " present distress. " The hermit may have gone on to represent the arguments de- rivable from observation and experience of human affairs. It was all very well to associate people together in a monastery, where they might give each other social help towards a career of devotion. But priests residing alone in remote villages would be expo...sed to great temptations to a selfish life, and would miss the divinely ordained training to self-denial and constant thought for others, which a wife and family nmst bring witli tliem. He would add that if celibacy had any superior merit in itself, it could only develop that merit where it was voluntary, for no compulsory goodness can be DOCTRINES OF ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH 85 meritorious. To ourselves it must appear that the evils of obligatory celibacy in the ministers of the Church are shown by history to have far outweighed its advantages.
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