The Herald - Saturday, November 23, 1895
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The Herald,
AN
EVENING JOURNAL,
With which is amalgamated the
Evening Standard.
IMPARTIAL
NOT NEUTRAL
SATURDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER, 1895.
Following what we had to say last evening about the fashion in which brethren in the Lord criticise each other in Merry England, a word as to the mode in which religious journals criticise the high life of the modern Babylon may not be inappropriate. The mere everyday secular press is delightedly quoting, as a literary bonne bouche, the following extract from the "Methodist Times": —
The trial of Oscar Wilde, the shameless attempt to sweep away all restrictions upon vice in public places of amusement, and many other ominous signs of the times, indicate that wickedness in West London has reached depths of audacious depravity unparalleled since the days of the dying Roman Empire. All the resources of health and civilisation are being systematically and scientifically used in West London to "make human life a hell."