A MATTER OF TASTE.

New Zealand Tablet, 2 October 1919, Page 45

A MATTER OF TASTE.

The Rev. P. H. Casey, S.J., in the course of a sermon 1 intended primarily for the instruction of Catholic working girls, has a word or two on the artifice of dress that inspires or should inspire sober reflection: “Some say,” remarks the preacher, “that dross is a matter of custom. The true Catholic girl makes it also a matter of conscience. Indeed, her two safest guides are good taste and a good conscience. Do not be led astray by the example cf those who dress as if they had no soul to save or reputation to lose. By dressing foolishly you catch only the foolish. The wise are on their guard. Is it not the approbation of the wise that you should be eager to secure, and, above all, the approbation of God and of your own conscience ? There is little joy in having gathered a garland of roses when you look upon your hands and find them torn and bleeding. Bleeding hands are nothing to a bleeding heart —a heart left bleeding all through its own folly. “Live up to the dictates of your religion, live up to the dictates of your own good conscience, live up to the counsel given you by father and by mother and confessor. You will then walk in the safe, open way. It may not be as broad as other ways,' nor at the entrance as smooth, but it is the way that leads to life and not to death, the , way that leads to joy and not to pain, the way that leads to the things ; that; are of value when the petals shall have . fallen from the roses and the lights grow -dim and you go forth alone to the home of your eternity. For the silver cord shall be broken and the golden fillet shrink back, find the, mourners shall, go about the street, and the dust shall'.’ return,. to the earth' whence it came, and the soul td God who gave it.” ij* & ■'• ' - if. ... :