Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-14
ENGLAND'S IMMORTALITY.
THE "GAZETTES" PLANS FOR
PARTIAL PURIFICATION.

sixteen Instead of Thirteen Years the
AGE at Which Sinful Conduct May Be
gin-PrOcuratiOn Must be Restricted
Wales Outs or His Paper-SpurgeOn
J0stifies the Articles.
LONDON, July ls.-The PQU Mall Ca
geite this afternoon, in response to re-
quests for its opinion as to the nature of
the changes required in the present Eng
lish criminal law, makes several impor-
tant suggestions. 1t advocates:
First, An addition to the criminal act rais
ing the age at which female children may lc-
! gally consent to sinful conduct from ID years,
the present period, TO 49,
.. The extension of the law prohibiting
itlng soliciting to both sexes.
3. denial of any additional power over
women to the police that VIII be aimed
at the suppression Of crime and the
suppression Of vice-that is complete legal
liberty for voluntary immortality between
edults contracting ON equal terms, but riRor-
Gus repression OF sexual criminalty in all
cases in which the parties are under age, or
the elements of full, free and intelligent con-
sent are absent.
4. Greatly increased stringency in the laws
against procuration-
B0YCoTTERS OF THE PAPER.
The Gazette, in an editorial commenting
on the results of its revelations, declares
world" "No word was raised yesterday
IN the churches against u.s." continued
the paper, ''but all the forces of wicked
ness IN high places are arrayed against
us. Hon. W. IL. Smith Il Sons, possess
ing monopoly of the stands on
the railway system of England,
have suppressed their sales of the Pan
MAI Gazette. The Prince of Wales has
stopped his paper. Right Hon. Mr..
10 in in
name of outraged morality, and clamors
for our extinction. The Gazette did not
undertake this inquiry to unearth the
vice 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
not"
SPURGEON JUSrIFIES THE PAPER.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon yesterday preached
powerful sermon on the iniquity of Lon
don as exposed by the PdU HdH Gazette
during the past week Rev. Spurgeon
took for his text Romans H., 10,
which he quoted IN defense
of the Gdzette'S work In making its re-
velations. "St. Paul." the preacher said,
''felt it necessary To mention the hideOus
vices of the heathens, and left on record
an exposure of the sin of his day which
crims0ned the cheek Of the modest when
they read it. 1t had to be written to shame
the denominations Of an age almost past
shame.
JUDGMENT FOR SIN.
e'There was judgment for sin in this
world for both men and ma
tiOns. Assyria, Babylon, Rome,
Persia and Egypt were empires
of oppression and cruelty, and full of
iniquity. The sin OF these people could
no longer be tolerated. They were wiped
If,ff haF 70, r.ff : ha ,pfh -
But no one could tell what bloodshedding
and suffering come upon men for their
miquIties. Why should London" eX-
claimed the preacher, "be more favored
than ROmeg What is there about our
bOastful race on this OF on the other side
of the Atlantic that we should monOpOlize
God and faVorY God will judge mems
secret sins, too vile to be spoken Of. and
which cause a nation to shudder if
dragged, as they ought to be, into the day
| light.
LIGHT ON DEEDS or DARKNESS.
'sThe deeds of night, of the closed room,
done where the finger is put upon the lip,
and actions which must never be mem
toned, lest man himself be regarded as an
Outcast, abhOrred even of his fellows sin
ners-all, all shall be revealed. All that we
have for our own comfort blinded our
eyes to, and aYerted our gaze from,
things inconvenient to see, shall be re-
Yealed. We here make a difference
between secret and public, but
God does not. Every secret sin,
in secret only by the lying
phantasy Of imagination, 1t is public be-
fore God. 1t is necessary for the church
to warn men of what will happen if they
continue in their sins, and not keep them
in the FOOLS paradise until they be sent
down to heils damnation. IL becomes
every preacher to cry aloud and spare
nothing"
WOMEN SUPPORT THEP PAPER.
A mass meeting of women was held in.
Princes hall this afternoon TO consider
ways and means TO protect young girls
from the horrible pitfalls OF London, as re-
vealed by the PAU Mall Gazette. Mrs.
Booth and other ladies made eloquent ad-
dresses. The meeting resolved that the
laws on the subject should forthwith be
made more efficient. The ladies de-
nounced the State regulation Of vice and
demanded total repeal of the contagious
disease act, and that the age of consent
he raised from 13 TO IL. The meeting also
voted 10 send copies Of the record OF Its
proceedings TO the House Of Commons.
PARLIAMENT's NOTICE.
In the House OF Commons to-day George
Bentinck, Conservative member for
Whitehaven, asked the Home Department
whether the IqU HdU Gdzette charges
against the London police in connection
with that papers revelations Of iniquity
In the city we're true.
Sir Richard Asheton Cross, Home Sec
retarY, replied that II the facts were as
stated by the gazette the fullest inquiry
would be made, and that he considered II
his duty 10 get at the bottom Of the
charges.