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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1055, 22 September 1883, Page 2

By the following somewhat enthusiastic declaration of his faith, (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette), Senor Oastelar has recently emphasised his agreement with Mr Gladstone on the subject of the Affirmation Bill:—“Atheism cannot be more repulsive to any one than it is to me, in whom the idea of God,'engrafted by education, has grown in the same measure as my exist* ence, and has. become mature in the same measure as my intellect. I have seen God in all the splendours of nature, and have gazed at the overshadowing wings of his angels in the resplendent brilliancy of the stars ; I have felt God in the purest affections of my heart, and have loved Him with all the aspirations to universal charity, and with all my compassion of human suffering; I have heard God in the music of the spheres and in the harmonies of the orbs ; without God, I believe myself and my species to be like a: herd of poor animals, mere matter, deceived by a' diabolical illusion. Without the idea of God we can explain neither the loss of an atom in the confines of mortality nor th vivifying principle of creation, nor without His providence can we comprehend the divine laws of the universe and of history* Consequently nobody holds the school of atheism in abomination more than 1 do, and nobody more believes iu and adores the supreme and divine existence of the absolute and perfect Being by whom our body and mind ace animated, through whom are explained all the enigmas of the universe. Yet, although I cannot deny that human nature, with all its limitations and imperfections, has the right to pronounce against error, I am unable to see the efficacy of coercive remedies to persecute and strangle it. In this, then, I believe with the great Bnglis Minister that dogmatic and metaphysical truth cannot be enforced by coercive power, and that the liberty^of thought ought to be respected to the utmost verge.” Sour stomach, sick headache, and dizziness Hop Bitters cures with a few doses. See.— Advt.] • Flies and Bugs.—Beetles, insects, reaches* ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rab” bits, cleared out by “ Rough bn Rats.” Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents* Wanted parties about to furnish to know that J. Meech is selling all his goods at a sacrifice, being over-stocked and wanting the money. Drawing-room Suites from 10 los, warranted ; Good Bed-room Suites, remarkably low; Drawing-room: Fancy Walnut Tables, Japanese Tables, a splendid Inlaid Walnut Sideboard, Marble Slab, with Plate Glass back, to be sold cheap. Iron Bedsteads, Crockery-ware, and every requisite for house furnishing etc. Funerals conducted on the cheapest scale. Practical workmen kept in all its branches. Agent for the celebrated Venetian Blind Makers, Dunedin. Carvings and Turnery of every kind. All kinds of furniture exchanged and highest price given for furniture. Note the address —Next Bullock’s Arcade, Ashburton.

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Late Advertisements OOND, A RIDING SADDLE. Owner can have the same by paying expenses, on application at the'Office of this Paper. 9 580 OAPT IS T O H U R OH. S ' R VICES will be held in the Odd* fellows’ Hall, on Lord’s Day, 23(d. Rev Mb Standage will Preach Morning, 11 o’clock, Evening, 6.30, . 9 581 r Publication. IN THE PRESS, AND WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS,’ BY ALFRED SAUNDEKB. This Book, written by an old New Zealand coloniit, will be found to contain the most modern and complete ’ information upon the Breeding, Rearing and Management of every description of Domestic Poultry; suggestions for the'itoprove- ! ment of Poultry Shows ; all that is known 1 about the orinciples to be observed in the mating of Breeding Stock; and sojjne well defined rules for selecting, with certainty, the most economical and beneficial description of food for any animal, from a baby to a mouse. It will show, the best sort of fowls to keep, and the 'rules (or selecting them ; and, whilst condemning the cruelty and mischief of mq#y common practices, it will point out how to keep poultry with certain profit, in brilliant health, and producing abundance of eggs at every reason of the year. 8 240