Monday, Mar. 14, 1927

Women Flayed

As did Revivalist Clovis Chapel at Emory University, other ecclesiastics flayed modern women last week:

Pope Pius: ". . . Indecency of women's fashions . . . need to abandon certain tolerances in dances and fashions, unworthy not only of Christians but of any creature with a feeling of human dignity."

Dr. G. H. Kersten, Dutch Reformed Fundamentalist, at Amsterdam: ". . . Church authorities are entirely justified in refusing to admit to confirmation or any of the Holy Sacraments, women who, by their attire and appearance, show that they are not yet ready to forsake the world and the lusts of the flesh."

Bishop of Armagh, Ireland: "Satan made no mistake here in subjecting the fairest of our creation to ridicule, contempt, sin and perdition. Woman has never degraded herself as she has in this costume. Instead of giving us beauty it lowers woman below the lowest of the human family and even suggests a loss of holy purity."

Bishop of Derry, Ireland: "Dress [of young girls], which even outdoors is far from modest, in society and at balls and dances is positively immodest, suggestive and an open incentive to passion."