MELBOURNE ANGLICAN SYNOD.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 283, 18 January 1919, Page 3

MELBOURNE ANGLICAN SYNOD.

DECLARES EOR WAR TIME PROHIBITION. In moving the resolution in favour of this, Rev. F. E. Crotty said: — “Even if Prohibition were not perfect, yet it is a magnificent thing. Even if we could not save the hardened drinker, we could save the children now living and the children yet to l)e. (Hear, hear.) Start now 1 He agreed that Prohibition might not be the ideal way, but this is not an ideal world. We must face facts. If this were an ideal world, and if all the- people were well informed on the subject of alcohol, and men all sincere Christians, he believed that all would be total abstainers. (Hear, hear.) But this was not an ideal world, and the consequence was that Prohibition was necessary all through human history and life. In view of the pressing problems of the war, also those affecting economic and social conditions, also the great importance of the work of repatriation and other post-war problems, he urged them to support this motion in favour of Prohibition for the period of the war and of the repatriation of our soldiers. He believed that such a measure of Prohibition would be a step in the* right direction of economy, efficiency, social reform, and moral progress—(hear, hear)—and by so doing we would be hedping to build up in this way the City of God in the land w* love.” (Applause.)