MORALS CONTROVERSY.
REPLY TO BISHOP OF LONDON. SERMONS AND PLAYS. 'Times' —'Sydney Sjtn' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 6.5 o'clock.) LONDON, November 17. Mr Bernard Shaw, the well-known author, replying to the Bishop of London, who recently denounced the morals of the music halls, says that there are many more evil sermons than evil plays. These may do frightful harm, but would the Bishop agree that no sermon be preached unless it is first licensed? The Times, in a leader closing the controversy, declares that too many good peopio talk and write of the universal declension of morals, particularly those of theatres and music halls, a*; if popular amusement was everywhere becoming coarse, loud and impure. "This exaggeration," the Times says, "may be well meant, but it is not the less unreal and unjust, because, it is altogether wide of the truth. Many forms of dramatic entertainment are never more wholesome than when given as moral reformers, and they are not always wrong ia their facte."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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166MORALS CONTROVERSY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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