THE BAPTIST UNION AND THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 277, 30 June 1888, Page 5

THE BAPTIST UNION AND THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.

At the meeting of the Baptist Union in London, in Apriblasb, 1,400 delegates being present, Key. W. Glover, of Bristol* moved :: — w That the Assembly agree to th lollowing momorial to be sent to the I'rime Minister and the Indian and Colonial Secretaries—' Your memorialists have heard with astonishment, indignation, and shame, that British authority has introduced the system of 1 emulated or licensed prostitution into the Indian Empire, and various Clvown colonies and dependencies, and whereas such a system must inevitably be antagonistic to (.he work of Christian missions, which the chinches of Great Britain so >trennously support, your memorialists liumbly pray that you will immediately take such steps •<& will secure the abolition of the said */ torn in the places above referred to. cv '\ thereby remove what your mumoriu/'sts regard as a grave stain upon the honour and fame of tins professedly Christian nation.'" He wished to acknowledge with great gi.iiitude the action during the past year of the Colonial Oltiee— not the Indian Oflipc~-in taking steps which had already abolished the Government support of vice in eight out of the twelve or thirteen of our colonial possessions. (Hear, hear.) That it would be abolished in the rest they confidently believed. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr A. H. Baynes, Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, writes that his Committee have put themselves in communication with the other missionary societies in England with a A r iew to taking united action in the matter, and adds, "I feel certain that the Government will have to give way and remove from the Statute Book a law which is hateful and obnoxious. '