MORALS OF LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 110, 1 February 1908, Page 12

MORALS OF LONDON.

The Bishop of London, preaching to a congregation of men at St. Martin's, Ludgate, recently, said that only the previous Sunday he was kneeling by the body of. a'young priest wiio. had been killed in ,Ujp prime of life by sheer overwork and w - orry . iri a 'ejuut parish. Ho !was left to himself, and ho died of a diseaso which had undoubtedly been brought on by worry! and by his body'ho prayed for the foregiveness of the Church, vkicli hadwleft him so much in despair. .The Church could not be 6elf-eomplacont when they considered tho. moral tone of London. The whole tone of men on the subject of 'morals must be. changed. Hen' Epoke of tho impossibility of purity, and there was tho abominable lie that it was more healthy to bo immoral. ' Young men'were being corrupted by the tone of older men. It was small encouragement they' had when men of respectability really considered that it was absolutely liopoloes to try. to get rid of the evil in our streets. But it was going to be done; they woro going to change the whole tone of London and tho men of London with regard to the. moral question. Boos . poverty, intellectual poverty, prevail to a groat extent in the provinces? Professor Ramsey- Muir, of Liverpool University, is strongly of opinion that it does, 1 " Tho dominance exercised by London over tho intellectual life of the country is monstrous, abnormal, unhealthy," he declared, speaking in Liverpool; "it is positively injurious and mischievous, because it means that London is draining tho intellectual eubsdil of the kingdom.".