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Show PRIEST SCORES SELFISH WOMEN Rev. Alexander P. Doyle of the Paulist Fathers spoke to 1100 women at the meeting of the St. Veronica league in St. Michael's church, New York, recently, of the evils of a life of aimlpss leisure which he declared to be 1 alent today. "The t.ass of men and women who cut themselves away from their fellows, fel-lows, who shut out of their lives all sight of want and suffering, who despise de-spise tha poor and the needy, is growing grow-ing entirely too large in this great city," said Father Doyle. "Such a class is necessarily created by a civilization civi-lization whose standards of pre-eminence are not intelligence or virtue, but just wealth, and whose outward signs of an Inward grace are a Parisian Paris-ian gown and unsoiled linen. "Class distinctions are merely artificial. arti-ficial. I would plead with women of social position to appreciate the no- bility of a life spent In the service of the poor and of the fallen. The work in the prison even now is urgently calling for workers. The necessities of this work are as clamorous as is the demand for generous hearted women wo-men of leisure to undertake the labor, while the rewards are a hundredfold, even in this life. "A woman who has an abundance of the good things of this world appreciates ap-preciates them all the more when she tries to uplift the fallen or bring com fort to the heartbroken, and it sweetens sweet-ens her enjoyment of God's gift3. On the other hand, there is no more useless use-less creature on God's earth than the woman of wealth who lives for herself her-self alone." |