Fiction and Social Purity,

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4425, 17 June 1909, Page 2

Fiction and Social Purity,

A recent contributor to a Home newspaper, when referring to the latest book written by H. G. Wells, writes thus :—The primary fact in much of the fiction of to-day is hatred of the Christian religion, and that hatred is properly described as a hatred of chastity. Anyone who is acquainted with what is going on in certain literary circles can have no doubt that the big fight in the near future for the Christian Church will not be over new theologies, but over social purity and the sanctity of marriage. There are groups of persons who arrogate to themselves the title of “ The Intellectuals,” whose morals are those of the beasts of the field. They boast that it is their intention to shatter the Christian law of marriage, and their practices agree with their professed principles. Having recently become possessed of documentary evidence as to what transpired last year in a company of these “Intellectuals,” I placed the facts before an elderly man medical. He wrote me, in reply, that he had necessarily, in the course of a long life, become acquainted with much and deep depravity, but he had never before heard of such loathsome doings as these documents revealed.”