IN THE WEST END.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1926, Page 10

IN THE WEST END.

VICE IN LONDON. MINISTER’S OUTBURST. LONDON, June 8. “Why should not Their Majesties feel quite at homo worshipping occasionally in the City Temple or Wesley’s Chapel?” asked the Rev. F. W. Newland, in his presidential address to members of the Congregational Union at the City Temple. He recalled that the King recently appointed a Wesleyan minister who had served in war-time to be a Royal chaplain, .‘which was a great stride towards religious equality and cooperation, because it meant the recognition of Noncomformists, whose former exclusion was a stupendous mistake. One result of the King’s wise and generous action was that the pulpits of the Royal Chapels would not be barred to Free Church ministers. The speaker added that there was a distinct moral advance in the workers’ attitude towards religion, but the wicked outbreaks of vice in the West End of London were the Devil’s triumph, and' hampered tho Church’s efforts. He lamented the fact that people lay in bed on Sunday instead of going to church. Public-houses, music halls and cinemas kept people from church. He urged that wireless programmes should not be expanded on Sunday’s, because they were likely to clash with church services, although broadcasting services were an unspeakable boon to invalids'.