Few are the women and maidens who would let themselves think that one could at the same time be joyous and modest. They are all bold and coarse in their speech, in their demeanor wild and lewd. That is now the fashion of being in good cheer. But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.

...women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

'For He that is mighty hath done great things for me, and Holy is His Name' (Luke 1:49). Luther comments:

For the history of the centuries that have passed since the birth of Christ nowhere reveals conditions like those of the present. There has never been such bui…

P.S. No more public scatology.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as…