“NOT 1 IN 500”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16360, 7 June 1927, Page 2

“NOT 1 IN 500”

CAN KEEP SECRETS PRIEST’S SCATHING SERMON SYDNEY, May 23.' “Not one in 500 can keep a secret,” So said Rev. Father Edward McLoughljn, oi the Bedemptorist Order, preaching at Holy Cross, Bondi Junction, yesterday. “How quickly a ‘.secret’ travels, par tieularly il its message, be scandal*, blasting the reputation of a man or or bis family,” observed'the preacher. Rarely, lie said, was the original holder of a secret of this kind able to keep it locked within Jus own bosom. To his coterie of special friends ho had to tell it—of course, “in secret.” While they listened, assuring him or her—it was generally "her”—that the “secret” was safe with them, and that they knew how to keep a confidence — “mum” was the word with them —they were all the time itching to 1 be off to tell it to their own special friends “in secret.” Was it any wonder, the preacher asked, that the scandal was soon broadcast to the world? A secret, the preacher said, should never be divulged. A man would do wrong even to mention it to his wife, Tale-carrying was one of the worst evils of modern life. Women were the worst offenders.-