The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-15
PAIL MALL GAZETTE.
It's Remedy for the Social Evils 1t Has Ex-
POSED to the World.
Spurgeon breaches Powerful Sermon on
the Patrician Iniquity of London-A
woman's Mass Meeting to Pro-
tect Young Girls.

LONDON, July 13.-The Pail Mall Gazette
this afternoon, in response to requests for its
opinion as to the nature of the changes re-
quired in the present English criminal law,
makes several important suggestions. 1t adj
vocates: First, an addition to the criminal
act, raising the age at which female children
may legally consent to sinful conduct from
thirteen years, the present period, to sixteen.
Second, extension of the law prohibiting
soliciting TO both sexes.
Third, denial of any additional power
over women to the police that will be armed
at the suppression OF crime and not at the
suppression of vice. That is complete legal
liberty for voluntary immortality between
adults contracting equal terms, but
rigorous repression on sexual criminallty
in all cases in which the parties are under
age, or the elements of full, free and intelli-
gent consent are absent.
Fourth, greatly increased stringency in
the laws against procuration.
The Gazette, in editorial commenting
upon the results of its revelation, declares
that its trumpet blast has reused the
world. No word was raised yesterday in
the churches against us, continues the paper,
''but all the forces of wickedness in high
places are arrayed against us. Hon. W. HI.
Smith h Sons, possessing the monopoly of
news stands on the railway system of Eng
land. have suppressed their sales of the Pail
Mall Gazette. The Prince of Wales has
stopped his paper. The Rt Hon. Mr. Ben
trick is posing in Parliament in the name of
Outraged morality" and clamors for our
extinction. The Gazette did not undertake
this inquiry TO unearth the vices of the
great, but if we are driven to bay we will be
compelled by the action of our assailants to
speak out and spare zone
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powerful sermon on the patrician iniquity of
London as expressed by the Pail Mall Ga
zette during the past week. Mr.. Spurgeon
took for his text the sixteenth verse OF the
second chapter of the Epistle of Paul to the
Romans, which he quoted in defense of the
Pail Mall GaZette's work in making its eX-
pOsures. st. Paul, so the preacher said, felt it
necessary to mention the hideous vices of
the heathen, and left on record an exposure
Of the sin of his day which crimsOned the
cheek of the modest when they read it, 1t
had to be written to shame the abominations
of the age, almost past shame. There was
judgment for sin in this world for both man
and nations. Assyria, Babylon, Persia,
Rome and Egypt were Empires of Oppres-
sion and cruelty and full of iniquity. When
the sin of these people could no longer be
tolerated they were wiped off the face of the
earth. Thus of nations But no one could
tell what blood shedding and suffering
should London" exclaimed the preacher,
''be more favored than Rome? What is
there about our beautiful race on
this or the other side of the Atlantic
that we should monopolize Gods favor?
God will judge mems secret SINS too
vile To be spoken of, and which cause the
Nation to shudder if dragged, as they ought
to be, into daylight. Deeds of the closed
rooms, done when the finger is put upon the
lip, and the act committed which must
never be mentioned lest the man himself be
regarded an outcast, abhOred even of his
fellow sinners. All. all shall he revealed.
All that we have for our own comfort
blinded our eyes TO, and covered our gaze
from things incOnvenient 20 see, shall be re-
vealed. We here make difference between
the secret and the public, but God does not.
Every secret sin is secret only by lying
phantasy of the Imagination. Ii is public
before God. Ii Is necessary for the Church
10 warn men of what will happen If they
continue in their sins, and not keep them in
a fools paradise until they be sent down to
hells dominion. 1t becomes every minister
to cry aloud. and spare not one"
A mass meeting of women held in
Princess Hall this afternoon 10 consider ways
and means 10 protect young girls from the
horrible pitfalls of London, as revealed by
the Pail Mall Gazette. Mrs. Booth and other
ladies made eloquent addresses. The meet
ing resolved that the laws ON the subject
should forthwith be made more efficient, and
that the age Of consent be raised from thir-
teen to eighteen. The meeting also voted to
send copies of the record of its proceedings
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