THE BAPTIST UNION AND THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 151, 27 June 1888, Page 2

THE BAPTIST UNION AND THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.

At the meeting of the Baptist Union in London, in Apriblast, 1,400 delegates being present, Eev. W. Glover, of Bristol, moved :—" That the Assembly agree to th c following memorial to be sent to the Prime Minister and the Indian and Colonial Secretaries—' Your memorialists have heard with astonishment, indignation, and shame, that British authority has introduced tlio system of regulated or licensed prostitution into the Indian Empire, and various Crown colonies and dependencies, • and whereas puch v. system must inevitably be antagonistic to the work of Christian missions, which the churches of Great Britain so dtrenuously support, your memorialists humbly pray that you will immediately take such Bleps as will secure the abolition, of. the said system in the places above referred to, and _ thereby remove what you* memorialists , re^ gard as a grave stain upon the honour and fame of this professedly Christian nation.' " He wished to acknowledge with great gratitude the action during the pa&t year of the Colonial Office—not the Indian Office—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 thuy confidently believed. The resolution was carried unanimously.

Mr A. H. linynes. Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, writes that his Committee have pub themselves in communication with the other missionary societies in England with a view to taking united action in the matter, and adds, "I feed, certain that the Government will have to give way and remove from fche Statute Book a law which is hateful and obnoxious.' . . •