VICTORIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF MORALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

VICTORIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF MORALITY.

This society held ii.* /i:.sl m<-eti>ig since its i resuscitation on Tiifsd.-iy, 7ih Xovrinb.T, ,-it i the roomy of the M..-lf. ~in-.r. Y-v.n-; Mm';; ] Christian .Association, 'i h<: Uisliop "of Mr!- ; boun:<: war? e!c:tcd I , !-, .-.id.-nt. Dr. Singleton {srcM:!.'U-y), sai;"i it v.;i.-i tho aim" of ■ this focicfy, both l-.y the personal inlluonee • of ils uicmr.cr:;. ;>.:iii l, v every lmv.n.s i and in'irunicuf.'lily that "it could ret in ■ moti'-ii, to pmerve .-.nd i",v,(...,- what isi good ' and pur.! in our t-o. ial Ky:;t, mi, lid pint; those j who are ii> the toi , .: of i...-il to th:capi>, in-ei.'.-Uiin- the ])'»vi.-r f.f Ihf oi::pt -d to resist, an.l v.-restin-j >">-" "'"■'■ r.nr. r' t -:cii tho :idvan- , 1.-,',-., OV.-I- iMi ;W i-!HT, VV;-l :I :.-■>.,: ~y ,! .;s t. it U t io!. • wh-c!ilh.-..vir0105M.....--. ) f „-.,,•!„...!, th eivili- I, S'ltion has allowrd th.:n 1" u.-urp. 'l'!;t: i :--cn:irty i-ou-ht, In thiow ail po: :!!,!.■ pro- j i t.-ctioii around yriiMig vc.uhu and girl:', ospr..-i;i!!y tluv - .'inplovcd r.t :>. distance i ! froti, lh.,r natural m.avd'i.-.n':. t-> r.'claiin the j ' tallusi, In prom'.;.! the .-:,1-.pti..:i l,y th..- ' : y<-iing men of tin: .■oinmuiiitj of a :standard i of prineipli! a-.i-l jiraofii:,! opposed to the 1 common nm r,f int. iiiprrancc, i ganibbng. the do.xivration of tin; l.ordV, ilav, i and ot!i,:r habiN of a or •it-.'i-.i.Jin" , tendeney, and to ui,' o.v.iry 1 for the: formation of ah. althy public opinion ! on social questions, at the sctno time labour- ■■ \nu to remove hindrance-! to morality and i sobriety from the path of the indii/c-ut'class. i Several important institutions and agencies i had already been founded in pursuit of tlio : aforesaid aims under tho society's auspices. <