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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 16 May 1907, Page 3

TOBOGGANING TO THE BOTTOMLESS. PIT. FATHER VAUGHAN’S LATEST DENUNCIATION. Father Bernard Vaughan delivered another remarkable sermon on Ihe Sins of Society” to a crowded congregation at Farm street Church recently He exhorted his hearers to rally round the standard of those brave men and pure women who arc do so much to save England from deserving the name given her by foreign nations as Europe’s nursery of vice. The following are some of the stinking passages of the sermon, the text of which was: “And Herod, with his army, set His at naught, and mocked Him” : , “Are Britain and France embracing one another in the entente cordiale and tobogganing down a shiny steep ending in the bottomless pit? “Herod represented the voluptuous, fdddy world of dissipation, and he wanted to see Jesus not because He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life, but because He was being talked about. Anyone was welcome who cculd help to stimulate the jaded apetite of the foul, flabby, fleshy, voluptuary. SEEKING SENSATIONS. “If Jesus were to come to London to-day society would be as anxious to see Him as Herod was, and for no better reason—namely, because it has heard many things of Him, and because in its august presence ‘He would be almost sure to work a miracle.’

“Even I, simply because a good many people happen to come to hear me,-receive cpiite a number of flattering invitations ‘just to meet a few friends at lunch, during which to talk over the beautiful sermon.’ “At best society is a poor, petty, paltry show, while at worst it is a lying, vicious, diabolical" intrigue. “Its curse seeriis to be that it loves darkness better than light; in fact, it treats as vulgarities whatever speaks to it of duty, of sin, of death, or of the judgment to come. “What else is to be expected from people who despise and mock one another? . To me there are few sights more pathetic than that presented by a beautiful woman, beautifully accourt-, red, in beautiful pose,, pouring forth a lava of fiendish abuse of some other woman whose chief offence is that her pearls weigh heavier, or that slle T is perhaps more popular. “Again, how pitiable, not to say cruelly wicked, it is for mothers to treat her debutante daughters as some of them do—dressing them badly, treating them badly, detracting them badly, and all because they happen to be younger and prettier than themselves.” • ; ; -

The congregation of a phristchurch suburban church on a recent Sunday evening was considerably' startled 'chiving the reading of one of the lessons by a series of thunderous discords issuing from the organ chamber. The explanation of the untoward incident lay in the fact that the organist, while endeavoring to light an overhead gas’ jet, slipped from his temporary standing place and alighted upon the keyborad.