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Show LIFE'S GREAT MISTAKE. Modern Society Girls Compared With Herod's Daughter. Society women came in for a severe censure at the hands of the Rev. Charles E. Perkins yesterday. Mr. Perkins Per-kins was preaching at St. Mark's cathedral cathe-dral yesterday morning. The subject of his sermon was "The Great Mistake In Life." "The great mistake in life." said Mr. Perkins, "Is not doing. Talking Is the strongest ability of Ynost people. And how many of us do right, because it is right? The great majority refrain from doing wrong simply from fear of being punished. Especially Is this true of many girls who are now In what we call society. They do not leave the wrong alone because they hate It, but because they fear the punishment that will come to them sooner or later sooner soon-er If they are found but, but which will surely come in any case." The speaker took his text from the story of Herod's stepdaughter. He related re-lated the story of how the daughter of Herod's wife pleased him so by her dancing that the king promised her anvthing she should ask. Her answer, at the instigation of her mother, was a request for the head of John the Baptist. Bap-tist. Mr. Perkins pointed out how the right course for the girl would have been to ask for tho evangelist's liberty. Her case, said the preacher, was analogous anal-ogous with many girls in modern life. Figuratively, they commit the same crime that Herodins was guilty of, even though they do not approach It literally Every one's aim In life, he continued, should be to do faithfully the duties that come up every day. "If we perform per-form the tasks that are set for us and act according to the dictates of our conscience, con-science, wo shall thus fit ourselves for the great crisis," |