THIRST FOR THRILLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1924, Page 16

THIRST FOR THRILLS.

WAYS dF "MODERN WORLD/’ In the course of il sermon ih the Scots Church, Melbourne, last week, the Rev Thomas Tait, of Sydney, remarked that the modern world was haunted by the fear of being bored, and that the empire of botedom had been fictitiously widered. There, was a revolt against the nt cessary sameness of human existerce. There was a thirst that cried out for the grotesque, the vulgar and 'the victims. There must be freak fashkns in drews. There must be blazing advertisements, dramatic thrills, slang nritationa, Bolshevik policies, and miscellaneous boisterous bellowings. Lnderneath all the bubble, froth and noisome iridescence of superficial life td.re was the remorseless tug of irresistible laws. Cheap and easy ridicule might make a butt of prophets and preachers, but the same old maladies required much the same old treatment. The monotony of the world’s follies and sins made certain so-called pulpit platitudes inevitable.