ENGLAND’S MORALS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3469, 24 April 1920, Page 5

ENGLAND’S MORALS.

ARRAIGNED FROM PULPIT. LONDON, March 16. The Rev. F. B. Meyer, the prominent Baptist minister, addressing the Free Church Council, declared that drink was hell’s greatest asset. He denounced immodesty in dress and the substitution of spiritualism for religion. He also criticised sensuous dancing and the craze for amusement. The vast preponderance of the people he said,‘ had less religion than a. Hindoo or a Kaffir. Women who attended fights, said the Rev. Meyer, emulated the daughters of Rome in the darkest days of the Empire. ,

’ Father Bernard Vaughan, preaching on divorce, said that England was becoming a. stockyard. He remembered a funeral in ‘America where there were five mourners: who ‘had eaph been in turn the dead.maq’s wife. At a. recent; wedding in Englgnd.,the four bridesmaids were divorcees, '