"TRUST HIM NOT."

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 174, 19 March 1878, Page 3

"TRUST HIM NOT."

To the Editor of the Alcaroa Mail,

Sib, —Would you kindly find room in the Mail for the following, which I think might be read . with : profit by a few Akaronians, who are better at preaching and praying than working and paying. Yours, &c, ONE OF THE VICTIMS TO MJSPLAOEB CONFIDENCE

"The Bey. Hugh Miller Thompson, D.D., of New York, in a recent address, referred to the law of Bankruptcy in the following terms :—' The State permits a man, by a certain legal process, to free himself from pecuniary obligations for all time. She legally wipes out his honest debt by a bankrupt law, and sends him out into the world free, no matter what overwhelming wealth may come to him in the .future —free to repudiate such claims all his days. And here the Church should step in and say distinctly that the man, on the basis of right, is never free, and never can' bfe" free from honest obligation. Th at while at the bar of the State, for the State's own purpose, material and temporary, he stands clear, and may possess millions, while an honest creditor is in need, yet, At the bar of unalterable righteousness, he is none the less a thief, and that all the Commissioners of Bankruptcy on earth cannot make any otherwise than thief who has ever the power to pay an honest debt, and will not pay it.'"