Moral Revival Crusade

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1921, Page 1

Moral Revival Crusade

IM'I.I'MON AND SCI KXCI'.. ' c()-oim:i! \ ri: j i.tiXDDN. Mini's! j 'lhe lt*‘V . sir dailies Man-haul, i |y |! . D tin' leader in a great international moral “revival Dial is .iko. i t „ l„. organised. lie is I. well-know il soeial worker and author. and lie is prominently assoeiated with tile "ork the National Council of I’uhlu- .Morals Sir .lames anil l-ndy Mar,'limit are intending to make a world-tour. beginning uith tin- pit a Is of iilliope. Lo oro’nniso ;iii international oonio»enco. ;•.« b.Mleld Ilex f- .1 line ill one lII' tile Kurepean eaiiitiils, on tile re-a nirma t ol tin- moral ideal. Alter K u i o| M*. Sir .lames is going to Australia. New Zealand, and Canada, and tlienee to the Cnite.l States, lo olijcel. being to meet i In' leadeis ol on 1.1 ie life in Anieriea. “h.verywli.-re on this tour.” he has stated, •‘leeti r-s. sermons, and ennfereimes '' ill lie num.'ll In' ally ; also re.-epi intis by Dm-,'l-ii inputs. Clinivlms. Cniversities. and social organisations. It will Im> :hi <*nileavoitr to link uy all societies (like the National Council for Promotion of lia. e Hegenera 1 ion) round till' l.miire. tor phvsieal and moral im-iroveni''iit. ami to meet the lenders of public ooinioii in i,an v parts of Clirist-ian civilisation. Tell inti of the problems which lie will dismiss oil his travels, he said that population problems to which people were led when ,oiisidering the- interests of ill. family, widen into international nnd I'leial problems hi i to re eoufereuees will dealt with: Relation, of the soxos; marriage and parenthood: its

economic control and raei. 1 aspects; rise and fall of popitlatinii. “All the white races must stand together in the end." said Sir .lames, "'n maintain their position in the world, or they mav ho overwin-hued m racial competition. 01 the I .500.1M10.1108 human beings in the world, 1 ..100,0.)!),(M>o belong to the fertile coloured races, which are increasing ni an overwhelmin',' rate, protected bv our own (ivilis-in-s work: and dfl'l.linO.On') arc white 1„..,p1e who. ill almost all countries, show a persistently (h-clining Girt L-i-dto. The grave figures in hiith decline ill this country arc being studied to some purpose, and we have been in dose touch with the birth statistics department of the b reach (,ovf*i umeiit. \\’e have exchanged documents with the French Depopulation Commission, and a desire has been eoim-yod from France to the National Council here to appoint a French representative to net ns n link between the two countries. W(- shall probably have international r onfereiieos oil the subject. Sir .Tamos M.arebani bns a.v. -d knowledge of social qucstieiis. lor fins worked in the Fast End. he has travelled on the Continent with Dr Barnardo’s successor, he has been socretarv of Dr Barnanlo’s Domes and of

the National BiD li-rntc Commission. A. letter of conimendation and introdnel i,,n has been sent to all the principal H-ligions, civic and educational authorities in the eounlries to he visited. It is sinned by every Bishop, by all the Free' Church leaders, by the Chief Rabbi. General P,..*' scientists at Universities, and more than one millimiuiro pliilrtnUiropist.