Piety and Morality in London

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1863

Piety and Morality in London

THE London Record, referring to the supposed increase of piety and morality in that vicinity, very significantly asks, "How is it that in this vast metropolis, there are more than twenty-six public houses and gin-shops, or gin-palaces, to each Protestant place of worship, bad or good? How is it that our great brewers compel their publican tenants to sell gin as well as beer, under pain of forfeiting their leases? And Whence come the swindlers of this our day, in London and in the provinces, before whose gigantic frauds the aggregate of all the rogues of a former age must hide their diminished head? But these are questions that might with equal propriety be asked concerning some other cities that we know of."