Lower Than Brutes

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 266, 8 April 1914, Page 5

Lower Than Brutes

bishop AVERILL OX men and vice

beware OF the white slave traffic.

By felegi'aph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. IliJit most terrible vice, the one that leaves us lower than the brutes," wit* the epithets applied to sensualism bv Dr. Averill, Bishop of Auckland, to-dav, in the course of one of his mid-day addresses, which are attracting so much attention locally.

Aie we not backward in teaching our clnldron that great mystery, the origin' of life? he asked. "Are we not letting them go out into the world to learn it, probably from someone with a dirty mind, because we haven't the couraee to do our duty? J "Then there is the evil of bad literature. Are we doing all we can to comi , il / nd wbat about that most devilish thing, the common saying that it is all right for a young man to sow ns wild oats, so long as he settles down later? Do we allow our children to go two or three or more nights a week to picture theatres? I agree that such shows, if properly conducted, may do much good, but otherwise they may do an enormous amount of harm. "Then, are we thinking of eugenics? Are we content to allow the venereally diseased person to go about poisoning the community? Look at the mental hospitals and gaols. There you see the effects of all this. We see too much of the reaping and little of the sowing nowadays, said the Bishop in conclusion. bensuality is robbing man of his relgion It is killing Christianity; it 18 thc spiritual sense." ■liie Bishop made a reference to the white slave traffic. Speaking again of Herod, he said that some such sensual and devilish brutes are behind what we call nowadays thc white slave traffic y are Continually searching after new sensations. "'Sensual devils' I can only call them. Very well, you may sajwe are not going to have this trade in New Zealand, but do not be too sure that it will not come here. My brothers, if you are men, careful of the purity of your wives and your daughters, you will keep watchful, f or this trade is very likely to come to New Zealandl"