AUSTRALIAN MORALS.
CLERGYMAN'S INDICTMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association— MELBOtmsrE, January 5. The dictum of Mr. A. Carnegie that the level of public entertainment is sinking, is, according to the Rev. Frank Milne, erninnently true of Australia. In a sermon yesterday he declared that lascivious dancing find tho Sunday parade on the beaches with women in a semi-nude condition were simply abominations. He also instanced the crowds flocking to boxing contests, and condemned ragtime. He concluded by saying that the gross forms of pleasure and material property were destroying the spiritual life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15500, 6 January 1914, Page 7
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