A GIGANTIC EVIL.
DECREASING BIRTH-RATE. A BISHOP'S STRONG INDICTMENT By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Cooyright Received 9 05 p.m., Oct. 20, Loudon, 001. 20. | Bishop Ingram, addressing tho clergy at St. Paul’s Cathodia', declared that it was impossible to doscribo tho d'sinuy wherewith ho viowod the diminution of tie birth-rate in England aud Australia I ttirough deliberate artificial prevention. It was nrceasury to summon the forces of the Church to stem tbo gigantic ovil. Ho I houorod tbo Roman Chinch (or condemnI ing prevention as a sin. It would ill beoomo the Church of England to lobs oloarly condemn a praotico which was I eating out the heart and draining tho lifeblood of the country from all parts. Tbo I iniaorablo gospel of comfort was tbo curse of the present day. They must live the simpler, harder lifo of our forefathers, or the glorious boritßgo of ompiro would surely slip from our nerveless fingers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1590, 21 October 1905, Page 2
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153A GIGANTIC EVIL. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1590, 21 October 1905, Page 2
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