FATHER VAUGHAN ON SOCIETY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9188, 7 September 1906, Page 6

FATHER VAUGHAN ON SOCIETY.

_^ 1 Preadhing at Farm street, London, before a large congiegation, on the Pharisee : and the Publican, Father Vaughan said that life, especially the life of tihe leisured class, waa artificial. Society was exposed to the temptation of being idle like the Pharisee, forma 1 , conventional, and unreal. even in prayer. Life was like a play In which they were each taking a part. It was no easy task for them, all of a sudden to forget their class distinctions, their privileged sets, their social successes, their worldly goods, and to remember that they were going into the presence of Him before whom man and woman were not what they happened to have, but what they happened to be; that the debutante heauty might be before God less than her maid Who waited up half the night for her, nay, less than the meanest scullery maid below stairs ; while the millionaire with means to buy up whole countries might be, in God's sight, far less pleasing and very much more guilty than the lowest groom in his stable yard. It was a lamentable pity that society was so shallow, so hollow, so unnatural, and so unreal ; but most of all, it was a pity that it did not attempt to return to its true and genuine self, at least on Sundays. Society had discovered that it could get on very well without prayer; and when it did pray, nothing came of it. Perhaps* society had gone to church with the .same object as tho Pharisee. If so, then society had better take up the attitude of the Publican, and try what that might do. The Pharisee went to the temple to be seen, and to congratulate himself upon what he was; but the Publican went to hide himself, and to blame himself for what he was not. He was real, true, simple., and straight. There, were people in the West End who had nothing Teal about or on them but their sins. The only security against sin in the future was sorrow for sins in the past.

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