| Show the last issue ot of the ban francis wave points out that a wave of religious has baa swept over averi certain fashionable portion of flome communities since the advent of leat instead of gaily gulliv gallivanting to bouat less 1688 tesee teas and discussing the last item of gossip over the cheerful clatter ot at china and porcelain cupp maidens aro are decorously dressed in somber shadeau with violet decked bedecked be eques tc aurs and tippet demurely wending their way toward church and patiently listening witta with tp up parent devotion to the sermon this ibia class it is a new sensation at birtt to go and spend an hour wathla the abe precincts of a dimly lighted efto to dream of past dissipations re triumphs to the accompany beof the monotonous voice of the ar or who discusses the religious docial questions of the moment po even uthie this becomes wearying as ideary ry days day of lent drag on and laa a at first a pleasant pastime be a breary u rear j duty when theeo the en am to to Is at its height the various national churches are crowded SSI after a time the novelty leftri off and the church hip that was fashionable la Is role rele to a back seat until another sea aea calle ile it forward such periodical Z te is a parody on religion reli gicia a train erool ool for hypocrisy it is we oo on of the day huou of earth and i of heaven clinging to a spasmodic of godliness which is in in itself un j because it denies that power ot of joneso by which alone religion is 6 a permanently practical rule of |
