LIVING LIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2064, 26 April 1907, Page 4

LIVING LIES.

FATHER VAUGHAN SHOCKED. Father Vaughan, preaching to an overflowing congregation at Farmstreet Church, .London, on Sunday, March 3, further dealt with the “Sins of Smart Society,’’ speaking specially on “Truth.” Many women, he said, were becoming so indifferent that they said they truth was whatever they liked. It seemed to him that some only told the truth when they had not the other thing ready. Ho had read during the past wedk ail Anglican bishop’s onslaughts upon such statements or idioms as “Not at home,” “You’re welcome,” “Yours sincerely,” and “Yours affectionately,” and lie seemed to think that those practices were somewhat sinful. As an illustration, he would tell of the woman whose child needed an operation. The mother took her to ail oculist, and pleaded poverty, her husband, since he came back from South Africa,having nothing to do. -With her tears as fluent as her lies, she touched the heart of the good man, and ho undertook t-lie operation, putting it down upon the free list. He (Father Vaughan) was not surprised at what followed. The society woman, so pleased with her succes, and having omitted to tell tho physician that she had a fortuno of her own, rewarded her success the same week by buying a now motor car. That was tlio t ype of tiling lie denounced. Constantly they heard that in somo fashionable establishment Indies ,when asked to pay their hills, would take an oath they had paid already. They said, “Well, I will pay, but it is the second time X have paid it, and I will not cro§?> the threshold of your shop again.” Those wore the things that were going on every day, and what could, they expect from people who went to sec plays such as were imported from the Continent into this country.? Some of them were the embodiment of lies, infidelity, and everything that was false and grossly wicked. What was the good of the censor if they had. plays to which sonic could not go ? The other day ho heard of several who had to send back tickets of a certain play after reading the criticism in , the Times, and the “Times” was not too particularnot even about the French question. No doubt lie would bo told that it was tho plays that had created the lies of which he spoke. Ho thought it was the shameful lie that created the shameful play.