The Social Evil.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1505, 13 November 1885, Page 4

The Social Evil.

Marshal Booth recently delivered an Wdregi ythe't 1 Social^Bfyril ? ,"?alilho Jarnson Half, Dimedin, and t|ie,.b\iildi ng was^fille'd oy'one of the" largesV audiences ever seen within its. walls. : During the evening Mrs Stewart, a lady engaged m reclaiming the fallenfinißun--* IdiEQ^ave^ffinstafice of grossly Mmi'-" nal iramqrality which: had come.: under own oßservation, the victim being a ' girl of 14 yew-s;jc>f*agejft-who, with her child, died m tne Dupe'din Hospital. The rinonster who t committed the outrage, VMrs Stewart stated,. .was a schoolmaster, who prof essedj r ts be a religiptis man. ' The girl's ruin^^s^fiffie^idlirir Christ- , church, and sh^ was hnrrieu- to by train, the teacher concerned m the meantime selling his properljyy deser^rfgl his wife, and disappearingjMithonti^sp far as Mrs Stewart, was aware, having ibjeen heard of sificc tkebi Major Pollard|jßtate^ fliat % there;^veere seventy-six r.hbuses; -otdß-faineJinJDunedin, and that ,'tney were occupild by between 200 and £00. fallen women. The Salvation Armv/iß^^^^^'^^^^^'fte^rV 1 ofj these wo.)nen^fiefojsJii&{ioH.VJirHe*y- in-?-tended establishing agencies m every ! largjej Jo,wn rf in ,tjhe world, sfr.that^th#^Bflr Hfic^K'.^^'b^^'ikble.to^trapkJpst . daug^- ' tera .and restore them to their homes.. ']3to?We i^^W^M^& 'only^De'bfougHt'bacfe; from their eril ':mod^;'o^^li^ng r .f'-'^t' > « f 'Home'^6ald i Ms6 / be'pro\ddecl"far-themt' ! S' "■•>' ?