A Sad Addition to the List.
IMMEDIATELY after The Christian Advocate published the editorial entitled "The Damaging Minority of Ministers," a "fair young curate" in this city increased the number, under cover of studying sociology, by conduct that we can not describe, and is now under investigation by his bishop. A voluntary, an individual on his own option, going into vile places alone, under cover of studying sociology, is hardly fit to be admitted to the society of respectable women or self-respecting men. Ministers, Young Men's Christian Association Secretaries, and every one else (except the police, city missionaries, detectives, and ministers or priests avowed open workers among the abandoned) who go into the viler parts of the city under pretense of studying sociology are usually either neurotic or erotic. At a hotel a professor of sociology and twenty young men under his care were quartered. Their conversation, loud if not boisterous, revealed to those near that their moral sensibilities were already blunted and that the ludicrous, the licentious, and the unblushingly wicked had fascinated them. So says the Christian Advocate, and remarks that a man can learn more of human nature by studying his own heart and the Bible than he can by filling his mind with images which can not but pollute it.