“ Satanic Australia.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1922, Page 3

“ Satanic Australia.

A-uII.ibSALOK BOO'IH S Oi’iNloN bI’DNLY, August 2. A sorry picture ol tnc condition ui affairs in Australia nave been drawn In the evangelist "Ambassador Bourn, speaking <it Bendigo on tile subject ] “Satanic Australia.’’ “1 have not seen . a city in tile world,’’ he said, “where drunkenness among young men is more . blatant, brutal, or bestial than in Melbourne. Sydney would take a first prize ' with any shinier exposition unearth for | the display of woman’s nakedness. Go ; to the parks and beaches in summer ! and watch in the dance hulls the ‘get 1 up’ and the ‘get down’ of the juzzen . j How many thousands of our women : have stumbled into the man-made snare j of the ‘try to see’, ‘lo and bohold’, ‘peek , a boc’ style of dressing? If you would j know the effect of all this, study the i Government statistics and count the | number of children born out of wedlock ; ■ tlie cases in your divorce courts; and the sisterhood of your streets. When a ‘Nonconformist,’ or an ‘Anglican’, or even a bishop, stands up in church and , repeats, ‘From all the pomps a«d vanities of a wicked world, arid from all the snares of the flesh, and tire devil. ; good Lord deliver us,’ and then goes , down in some beautified God-forsaken dance hall to fox-trot with a lot of lowbreasted, bare-backed, naked-legged women, whose shameful immodesty, did it thus appear before the altar, would drive the angels a thousand miles from a cathedral, = I call that maladjustment. When church school matrons teach dainty young girls that nothing is as sacred as the marriage bond, and then sit with them before suggestivo plays • and dirty pictures which show in a beI witching manner the most appropriate I way to commit adultery, I call that mal- | adjustment. When these samo gentle j dames rebuke, with all possible austerj ity, the first sign of immodesty in these i Christian girl pupils, and then take i them down to a college bunny-hugging j spree, and put them in the arms of the [ young ‘bucks’ of a grammar school, T say all those kind of schools, to whatever Church they belong, are out of gear with their principles.”