OLD MORALS BEST

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 September 1932, Page 3

OLD MORALS BEST

WORLD GROWING TIRED OF FLIPPANCY OF YOUTH. "I th'ink the world is getting a little tired of the flippant pose of youth, the direspect of youth for its elders, its irreverence of things its elders hold sacred," said Archdeacon II. W. Monaghan, of Timaru, in the course of an address at the Youth for Youth Campaign rally in the Wellington Town Hall. "I put it to you," he said, "that the old order is better. You cannot lead to greatness except on reverence and ohedience." Archdeacon Monaghan said he eould not understand the attitude of certain people to-day who asserted that they had no betters, that all men are equal. "I am constantly meeting people *1 want to take off my hat to," he continued. "I am constantly encountering in my studies the wisdom of men in whose presence I must he silent lest I should speak as a fool. In my parish worlc I meet people whose courage and deeds make me want to go down on my knees in humility before God. "Young man, if you feel you have no betters, then I say to you that you are a eoxcomb and a fool." All the teachings of the new psychology and philosophy could not shake the old faith; absolute chastity for those who were not married and absolute fidelity for those who were, said Archdeacon Monaghan in referring to the morality problems faced by modern youth'. "The old folks were not all fools," he proceeded. "All old heliefs are not mistaken. If you throw the Vietorian fireguard out of the window, don't be surprised if you have a fire. As for those cads who take liquor to dances to undermine the mod'esty of young girls, well, God have mercy in their souls, but I can find nothing in the Old and the New Testaments to show that He will."