TO TEMPORA, O MORESI"

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 2

TO TEMPORA, O MORESI"

. oils, xriless infatuated with'.ox--trbme 'vieffsj .can help, perceiving .that societyof all grades is;given up,.to ; ;an..undue.desire : - for sport.,: -An : instance .in illustration ■occurred in thi^town':last. Sunday.,,Qn t];e vious'-.day. a .tennk[tpurnament*had,beenjcon-. tested,, and- on': ( Suhdaji:certain nienibe're-Vof-the, club, , and. innybe -soinp. : ~,of. the visiting, play^B'.from - : other; districts, ; played '} tennis;; from eight, o'clock;till;noon.-, .These'.people,, consider, themseslves the creme'do la'ireme'of' society.-I'iNp'-'dp'ubf.they 'thoughlessly |did, jiqt' consider , the; undesirable 1 example,they , w'ero' setting before;.the.;rising..-generatipn7 , .'or; ; how. they irritated■; the feelings of thuse who held Sunday 'to bea day of rest and, religion. .-1, , Sir, care;not whotber ; 'the , Christian' i-eligion is of pivine origin or;an Oriental mysticism: There fundamental facts ; ih' connection; with it that ..-hove; not only purified, ..the world but have made 'Western civilisation -to be what, it; is. ..' It teaches 'andY. demands morality, purity , of mind- in,word.and dead, but above allj charity and brotherly .love,:' Bemove these, elements, and the world' gradually becomes a chaos.. ~. .';':.-,'■'. ''i , ; > . The ehfranchisemeht of women in this niinion;has hot-raised the moral tone,'of the community,' b'utj: unfortunately, the) tendendy is of and the results' cannot yct;l)6 foreseen. "If is-'only/a'.-few months sinoe Sir Robprt.Stout,' ;iii : : nddr'essing: the Grand .'Jury; atNapier,. deplored the laxity and indifference~of' parents to- their offspring as one of; the oauses-for so many cases of. crim- , inal assaults against :.the\ person ' cominc- before the Courtj-and later, Mr. Justice Chanman made sinular -remarks.-i This dayweflk, Rtandin? in the comstery. when'over 100 children of;,all. ages , .and sexes came to.see the closing'in of the early graves of their schoolniatof), I listened to the remarks •of • the R«y.-.' "F: RobertshaWi urging: them to live.a life of purity/and 'coodness, and I wondered 1 -how many of all these , mothers present will endea- - your to.inculcate into.tbeminds of theirchil- I dron'the noble;advice littered.'. ~' , ■' ' r,, ■ The storekeeper who' sells .a .'.halfpenny box of niatehes on a Sunday, : or the weeds his garden on that day is liable to be brought.before4ho Court and fined,' yet the■ players,l -haye:mentioned, who pride themselves .upon:'being the elite of society/:'and therefore:should set an ■■. example, go un--punished.;: ,No country- can be' truly, great" unless she administers impartial justice to all. : —I .am; etc.,' ■"■''■■■'.■ . .'.■■,;•,■.■'■.•.■:.• ,;.. . ;. ALO'V'ER OP-POSTERITY. ■ ,Dannevirke,.Jannuary 27. .•:.■.- .1 ■•'''■'