THIRST FOR THRILLS.

Shannon News, 7 October 1924, Page 4

THIRST FOR THRILLS.

—-——4 WAYS OF MODERN WORLD,” In the course of a sermon in the Socts Church, ■ Melbourne, last week, the Rev. Thomas Tait, of Sydney, remarked that; the modern world was haunted by the fear of being bored; and that, the empire of boredom had been fictitiously widened. There was a revolt against the necessary sameness of human existence. There was a thirst that cried outi for the-grotes-que, the vulgar and the victims. There must be freak fashions in dress. There must be blazing advertisements, dramatic thrills, slang recitations, Bolshevik policies, and ; miscellaneous boisterous bellowings. Underneath all the bubble, froth'-and noisome iridescence of superficial life there was the remorseless tug of- irresistible laws. Cheap and easy ridicule might make a butt of prophets and. preachers, but the same old maladies required much the same old-treatment! The monotony of the world’s follies and sins ; ' made certain so-called pulpit platitudes inevitable.