APPENDIX TO the CHAPITRE VI

N 1. - What establishes ( constitutes ? ) the link or the sacrament according to Brahmes and according to the Church.

A link ( coming together ? ) enters the brahmanique doctrine on the marriage, and that of the Church, can present certain interest, at least of curiosity.

P. Gury, _Théologie morale_:

763. « The material ( subject ? ) remote from the wedding sacrament is the body of the fiancés that they are mutually engaged ( surrender ? ) in the contract. The next material ( subject ? ) is the discount ( delivery ? ) of the body which is made by words or signs expressing the assent.

766. « The shape consists in the mutual acceptance of the contracting parties, expressed by words or signs. »

According to this paragraph, the sacrament is the whole in the mutual assent of the contracting parties, where from many of the former ( ancient ? ) doctors concluded that the absence of the religious formalities, although being able to establish ( constitute ? ) a sin in itself, did not cancel the marriage, even in the religious point of view; but the Council of Thirty decided (p. Gury):

837. « Those who will try to contract marriage otherwise than it the presence of the priest, or another priest with the permission of the priest or the bishop, and two or three witnesses, those, the holy Synod declare them absolutely incapable to contract marriage, and cancel the contract. »

852. « The presence of the priest in the statement ( declaration ? ) of the valid mutual assent the marriage, even though he ( it ? ) would be forced by the violence or by the fear; he just has to know, either of check, or reluctantly, what is made, even if it pretends not to understand ( include ? ), for example by closing eyes and getting blocked ears. »

Let us notice that it can be made in a some place and without any secondary ceremony.

The doctrine of the former ( ancient ? ) casuists would have the advantage today to kill ( abolish ? ) the question of the purely civil marriage and its religious incapacity.

At the Buddhists, there is no religious ceremony for the marriage nor the birth, since the birth is considered by them as the evil and consistently the marriage.

However we cannot underestimate the good impression ( printing ? ) that can make on the couple the Christian marriage, especially when it is accompanied with eloquent advices. We heard ( understood ? ) catholic priests and Protestant Ministers to speak with many soul in these occasions.