A PRIEST ON MARRIAGE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 384, 9 May 1910, Page 6

A PRIEST ON MARRIAGE

The Rev. Father Kimbell, a niissioner, preaching at St. Harv's Church, Blenheim, on the institution of marriage, remarked, inter alia: ''Why don't you young men marry the girls'; There are plenty of them only waiting to be asked. I'll tell you why. You are too downright selfish, and fearful, and thriftless. You think too much of yourselves and your own individual comfort. You spend your money foolishly and won't put by the pennies that would grow and enable you to pop the question." And the girls are not altogether blameless in the missioner's eyes. Many of them simply ruin their chances of becoming happy wives and mothers Jjv a display of extravagance and thoughtlessness. "I tell you," he added, "that you often frighten the men oft' by the size and wealth of your hats." Another lion in the path of young people was their false idea that they ought to start with a partner in life where their parents left off rather than where thev began. Boys and girls become used to the comforts of homes that the old people had taken thirty or forty years to ,build up, and they were afraid to rough it a hit in a cottage.