SAINTS IN MAYFAIR.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 9, 11 January 1923, Page 7

SAINTS IN MAYFAIR.

The Bishop of London, in an address preliminary to the start of the ten days' Westminster mission: " I am not as familiar with the poorer parts of Westminster as with B.ethnal Green, but I have made, careful inquiries from the most experienced clergy, and especially some of the younger ones who are' working in that district, and it is impossible to describe—not that it is any different or worse than any other part—the leprosy of sin and the amount of cleansing that is necessary. On the night of the election a child cf ten years used such filthy language to a kindly policeman that caused him to remark that it was the saddest day of his life. Since the war pre-nuptial sin has been more common than before. When young clerks are asked to attend mission service they say, ' Why don't yon speak to Mayfair?' and then would follow all those hideous details which appear in newspapers. There are saints in Mayfair. Some of the most glorious saints are living in Mayfair who adorn-Chris-tendom, but we cannot deny that there -is probably no part of England that requires purging more, in the family life, of the leprosy of sin, than that part of London where you are going to conduct your mission. It is not too mnch to say that there are literally thousands of people in that ' great district who never go'inside a church or chapel, and who are apparently dead to the voice of the Gospel."