SPIRIT OF LAXITY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 7

SPIRIT OF LAXITY.

MODERN DRESS AND MORALS. Ir JBy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright a • Sydney, Octobor 20. Tho Anglican Archbishop (Dr. ° Wright), preaching in tho Cathedral, 0 said thero was a spirit of laxity in tho 1 air. People seemed to take it that so long as they. held some conception of tho Christian faith they could do as s they liked. This was called "broadf mindednoss" ;in reality it was a fetish, e which many wore using to cloak their 1 want, of self-control. 0 Thoro was a want- of delicacy in. tho ' dress of to-day, said tho speakor. A 1 lady said rccontly: "I don't earo what j I wear bo long as I startle people." .. Such persons forget tho sense of proper g decorum, and unlocked tho forces of 1 passionate desire, which cast aside tho a noblo solf.-restrainit, to work all manner e of grievous mischief. Some of the - dances of the, present hour wero a fraught with subtlo suggestion, which " must work untold mischief. Those r things came from irregulated ; Godless £•' wealth, tha/t satiated itself with sensuous pleasures that poisoned tho air of p the world by its far-reaching corrupt g influences. Tho symptoms wero thoso g of decadent civilisation. People could i not claim the protection and salvatioa . of Christ if they did these things. I THE FALLING' BIRTH-RATE. J London, Octobor 19. I The National Council for tho Promo--3 tioli of Morals has appointed a commisB sion of biologists, doctors, sociologists, clergy, and social workers to inquire, rel garding the falling birth-rate.