Bishop Cowie on Social Purity.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1482, 16 October 1885, Page 2

Bishop Cowie on Social Purity.

) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ;;i ** AuGKLANi), Thursday; Bishop Oowie, m his address to the Diocesan Synod, thus referred to tlie question of social .purity \— " There tire times and occasions 'when the prevailing vices; ot o.nr social system must be plainly denounced, and when special, action should be i taken to discourage, them. Such are the vices of luxury, extravagance, and a popular frivolity. But there are other vices still more destroying, about which it is impossible over to §peak m detail before the young without i floing 1 more harm than good thereby.; Whatever justification may beattempttd' 1 for publishing; m a fity like London the almost incredible particulars of ,a, nefarious traffic m tlie bodies of human beings there 1 carried on, the disseminating' or the same corrupting matter m our Auckland streetß is plainly indefensible. The minds of /very) many' young persons- i are defiled .b^snch, reyeiations, and .unchas^tity, says a 4 g'rcat teaclier of the. prpxeht day, • Eats like a cancer, aiid with difficulty can 4 ever be brought to let go its hold again, but'is for. ev^r ttchteningV It is not by much talking at public meetings, nor by the imposition of special pledges, that this parsicular evil is less,ened, but by the, Christian training of our children, and the better exorcise of parental control pyer tlieir conduct, and by amending .our 'conventional notions as to essentials of a prudent marliaga,"