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Show Enjoyable Denunciations. Society to-day in search of fresh sensation sen-sation flocks to hear Us manifold follies denounced from, the pulpit, and the more outspoken the preacher the more It enjoys his discourse. Times have changed since the day when Lord Melbourne walked out of church in disgust after a rousing sermon on the consequences of sin, exclaiming: Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere o private life!" To-day society revels in hearing itself denounced and plumes itself with Joy when a fashionable fashion-able preacher discourses on bridge scandals and divorce cases. |