SEXUAL VICE.
vTo the Editor.)
Sir,—l wish to commend rou for jour sober and sensible wards hi today's issuo, in referring to the abovo heading as a text for a sermon in .a church. lam for religion, and a firm believer in the 'honour aud chastity of my sex. If there is more '.sexual vice in this town than in other-places, and Ido not for a moment think there is, thore are surely better ways of dealing-with the evil than the course proposed. An epidemic of typhoid could scarcely be expected to disappear as the result of pulpit utterances. , Personal treatment is required, and so it is the case with moral disease. The gaudy, sensational advertisement, distributed! throughout the town will, no doubt, draw a crowd of sensation-seekers. I do not think this will benefit the sinners very much. Their need is a helping hand and kindly counsel. The Salvation Army workers achieve splendid results in their practical way in dealing with this evil. Why do not the cliurches copy them, and! follow the example of the Master, who said, "1 came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance?"-— X am. etc., A WOMAN' AND A SISTER,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 December 1912, Page 5
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199SEXUAL VICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 December 1912, Page 5
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