EVILS OF ABORTION
THOROUGH INVESTIGATION NECESSARY. [ Per Press Association. ] DUNEDIN, Nov. 24. In his address at the opening of the Otago-Southland Methodist Synod this morning, the Rev. C. H. Olds referred to the disturbing disclosures of the McMillan report on abortion, which, he said, was more disquieting because they knew the evil was even more widespread than the report showed. The Rev. Olds said no sweeping condemntion was adequate or just. The subject called for a thorough investigtion with a large measure of sympathetic understanding, particularly in regard to economic and social conditions that constituted such an important factor. While the Church must stand behind measures to combat the evil, her most potent sphere of influence was through the Christian home, Sunday school, and Bible class. She must send into the current of public life a constant stream of healthy-minded, clean youth, aggressively loyal to the principal of absolute purity, challenging impurity by a free and radiant life.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 5
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