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Rh for social purity, for which there is so much need in London. The plays of the present day seem to me more lax than they were in former years, and so also, undoubtedly, is the literature. Some of the lower-class journals are suggestive of evil to the young, and the state of the streets is very serious. I have during the last few years been promoting Social Institutes which are a kind of educational working-men's club, held in the halls of Board Schools and other suitable places, and these Institutes the working-men seem greatly to value. I have also promoted an Industrial Farm at Lingfield and the new one in Cumberland, where we hope to place some of the disabled soldiers now returning home. I am Chairman of the Boys' Imperial League, which aims at bringing a true instead of a boastful Imperialism into the minds of the boys of London and England generally. In connection with the Young Men's Christian Association and other societies for men, I have frequent opportunities for addressing that class of the population. One measure which I suggested to Bishop Creighton has, I think, been useful. It was that the Rural Deaneries should be made conterminous with the new Municipal Boroughs, and that a Municipal Church should be appointed for each Rural Deanery. Every Mayor and Corporation have taken advantage willingly of these arrangements.”