SOME LITERATURE OF TODAY

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21026, 30 November 1933, Page 8

SOME LITERATURE OF TODAY

ARCHBISHOP'S DENUNCIATION [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, November 29. Strong denunciation of the tone jof much of the literature of to-day was made by Archbishop Averill, when addressing the Auckland Mothers' Union, at the annual festival in St. Mary's Cathedral. The basis of the Archbishop's address was a call to the renewal which is being made from the London headquarters of the Mothers' Union to branches throughout the world. "We all know that a very definite attempt is being made to ignore the teaching of Christ, and his standard of morality, and to speak of it as oldfashioned and out of date, to despise the marriage tie and encourage sex license, and even to ignore and ridijcule any idea of moral and spiritual control or discipline," said the [Archbishop. "Much of the modern literature, a great deal of it, unfortunately, written by women is nauseating and seeks to degrade the life of rational and spiritual beings to the level of the animals. It contains an utterly, perverted idea of what is natural to m'an and woman made in the image of God, and it speaks of self expression in terms of sex expression as a normal life of human beings. Much of this literature is a gross libel on womanhood generally, and is calculated to deceive and noison the mind a of the young and thoughtless."