A SHOWING UP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 19 October 1907, Page 3

A SHOWING UP.

Bishop Neligan’s fearless Utterances. Auckland, Yesterday. Bishop Neligan, in the course of a speech at a men’s mass meeting, said :—Gambling hells are going on and your own boys are learning “two-up” and “two-np” schools are going on every day. In four days racing at Hllerslie alone at the beginning of the year £2 16,283 passed through the tote. You can add^ioo,000 for trotting meetings, and there is the “ failure of Christianity,” for racing in New Zealand lives absolutely and totally on the tote. Dealing with impurity, the Bishop said: There are 70 women and 12 houses of evil repute known in Auckland, and there are in the rescue homes of the Church of England, the Salvation Army Home, and the Door of Hope, 38 fallen women, and 35 out of the 38 are “first falls.” That is the failure of Chistianity, if yon will ? There are other things —I have only touched 011 things that are known. If there are 35 women —white women —in these homes who have fallen for the first time, where are the blackguards who brought them there ? (Applause.) Fallen women ! Aye, and where are the “fallen men ” ? The failure of Christianity, again? I can tell you what 1 know —that married men are amongst those who pulled down those 35 girls. Any chemist will tell yon that the sale of certain things has been increasing tenfold, and professing Christians sell them, and the cry of fallen women and the cry of the little child rises up in bitterness to God asking if Christianit}’ has failed, if there is no justice, no charity in the world ? Men, I ask yon, on whom will yon la}’ the blame ?