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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 192, 8 July 1874, Page 3

Of all evils prevalent, among young men wo know °f none more blighting in its moral effect than to speak lightly of the virtue of women. Nor is there anything in which young men are se thoroughly mistaken as the low estimate they form of the integrity of women—not of their own mothers and sisters, but of others, who, they for'get are somebody else’s mothers and sisters. As a to ur? wl j 10 1 8 “ r ‘Tndera to this bad habit Is not ,hi rUS f d f W!ih any enterprise requiring integrity of character Plain words should !r POk r T' tl,,8 P° int . for the evil is'a general , and deep rooted. If young men are some* time throw into the society of lewd or thoughtless women they have no more right to measure all other women by what they see of these, than they would have to measure the character of honest and respectable citizens by the developments of crime in the police courts. Let our young men remember that tneir chief happiness in life depends on their utter faith in women, No worldly i wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy, no generation, can cover or weaken this fundamental nun. ifc stauus like the record of God itself tor it is nothing less than this—and should put an everlasting seal on the lips that are wont to speak lightly of women.—2Vew Zealand Herald.