PREVENTION AND CURE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1442, 17 May 1912, Page 5

PREVENTION AND CURE.

Sir,—l noticed in your issue of a few days ago that the English Church has established a Home for Boys at the HutK This is practically another ambulance that has been placed at the foot of the precipice over which humanity daily stumbles, therefore I say more power to the Church for such good work, and while readily conceding every praise to this uoble work which is to go on at the bottom of the cliff, I often wonder why t this same Church collectively is not building some protective works at the top of tho precipice, by which it could check, if not stop, much of the stream of humanity now running to waste. In other words, why does not this great Church throw its weight into the cause of Prohibition, and so end the liquor traffic? This done, the need for much of the proposed ambulance work would be removed. No doubt some day we will be startled to hear that the Church of England is actually finding levels, with the ultimate intention of erecting a. fence at the top of the cliff When that day comes what a practical stride forward will the Church of England have made. Doctors of medicine arc unanimous that prevention is better than cure. But is it so with the doctors of divinity?—l am, etc., UNPREJUDICED. May 10, 1912.