ADULLAM.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 521, 11 September 1871, Page 2

ADULLAM.

"■The robb'd that smiles steals something from the tnicf, * ■ i *, * , i * i

To the Editor of the Evening Stab,

Sib,^ —I alone am responsible for this letter. I trust you will do;my friends the justice to publish!it, as you say, in your leader of the6th, that Mr. Edger's " congregation consiflts of those who hare been expelled from other churohes^ &c., when, in- truth, I am the only black iheepiof Mr.Edger'g flock to which your remark can refer. My crime was tearing "up the deacosn' "resolution!" Mr. Warlow Davies and his deacons thought proper to send me " a resolution" without tho knowledge of the church, complaining that 1 had ''said something calculated to hurt their fcelinas (' Poor dears ! ■ Tore up.said "resolution," and took it back to them, deeming it an unprovoked insult. You can judge what followed. Minister aM deacons, fire men- in, H»l]." belaboured -.my poor bones till. I becauiß etherealwed, and all but Vanished into thin;

aii. Mr. Warlow Davieß read <^a ~~~-~- ---to me in a highly edifying manner hf"* 11" ' congregation, happily a small O nn X** " resolutions ' were well larded with " ni, ■ et regard" and " Christian spirit" No rwt*i have suspected it if they had nof h °Ue w<ml4 to write it; and they professed iTl °ateful'' and mild, with a i>uslo aud emnhn.- me.olt overpowering Pretty saints and aZiA^ made! Expulsion was the only co "l ,?. the? ever received at the hands or H™f f/ 1 Warlow Davies. Ib went against tL ■ • the time, and pearly drops migbt^&t trembled on the eyelids but that Z, • « \ &T9 too old for tears! Wherein I failed tot e the dear old weather-boards did dutvfo?^ No doubt rivers of tears rained down thA?*" of those saintly boards in damp weathe/O* the wieksduess they saw aud heard PrnHlJ minister and deacons might have been JF mopping up those precious tears of svmL'iF for, sad to say, they could not wrin/anVT^ the church "Abashed the devil 3^ felt-how awful goodness is." Ah well IVT soreness is goae,—for in referrine tor printed pamphlet containing tho whola respondence that I freely, circulated I Tl that four or five summers have wawii' waned-(do I talk learnedly PJ-SSft 4^ Now, if-your space, and my conscience 1 lowed, I would setthose five men spinning n in fine, like unfortunate cockchafers mn't'l to a wall; or dancing, like painted cardC men, till you split your sides laughinj, v no ! I must except one, but it would noHT Mr. Warlow Davies, or Mr. Henry B«* Mr. Warlo- Davies is the one for '• Lmb S and blir . g; but. there, he's " a Iw headed Welsuman," poor fellow.. He can't hi it. Having been ringleader in the quarrel innr? cently enough, your remarks demand this ] et w from me. The sin of the titled band "ci pelled" was that they defended a woman—on], a woman you see, and such a f«iry too if Nobly- they dill their work, and are, with me grateful for having escaped Albert-street ravening wolves. Ministers and deacons trotted me out with some little grace, but every man] cheek in Auckland would be dyed with shaml if I told how others were kicked out. After1 having tarred and feathered " Q-eneral Hay nau," in more gingerly fashion than the drubbing Barclay and Perkins' draymen mt him. If their thrashing did not makenj. pulpy and pappy, it was because the rugged gnarled old oak was tough and knotty in oV sequence of much running of tho gauntlet" Let Heaven's light in on all deeds of darkness' say I, and no one knows better than Albert street congregational princes that there w« not one singlo spark of religion in their treat menfc of any one of the "expelled." I ne boldest, meanest, worst sin anyone can bring against me—worse than tearing up ten thousand deacons' resolutions—was having tried to enrich uiy garden at other people's expense at a time when I was too poor to buy.; ;I d 0 not lightly make the confession. Love'of" flowers &c, was my "particular weakness," and proved me to be one of Eve's daughters 'if I ever doubted. I fell before pretty things when "pine-apple rum," or even "champagne" would have had no charms. Nqwltoucli on the tenderest spot of all. Mr. Editor, how, could you cut aud slash at Mr. Edgerf If you had known him, no matter nhatjdur animosity (and I don't think it's very deep), you never could have done it; that is, unless you're pious ! Pious folk can, and do, insinuate the vilest, basest, calumnies against him, out of sheer envy ; so fiendish are they, that none but pious folk could utter them. I have no doubf that Btab of yours- was; "a-hit;" that told only too well. lam glad to tell'you there m ," a, son of the house of Edger." , f I wish there were a dozen ! He is a splendid fellow, worthy of his /ather;, big her praise is needless. You .are "happy," sir,' in your choice of a name for the meeting, that despised; place of congregation,—" Cave of Adullam." In St. Paul's day, the world's worthiest were found in dens and " caves" of the earth. Is it so still? It is my pride and glory to be dubbed "infidel," and infidel according to orthodoxy I have been ever since I knew my right hand from my left. FoTgfte me the length of this letter, and, sir, if ndeacon or anyone else should answer it, I hope he will have the manliness, or shall I say the womanliness, to give,his name mfull, as |'A&te dqn&—l am,&c, P i |,f I Ellen Ei,izABETH JEi.Lis'r

Sir, —Will you be kind enough to let me know if you :do not intend to insert this. letter. Please forgive mistakes; I was alrtaj* an "incorrigible dunce."—E.E.E. ; «

[We trust that if the other, members of the congregation desire similarly to exofflpate themselves, they will do so in pampblet fdrln. Our space is limited. We should regret being made "the vehicle of making " every i manly cheek in Auckland be dyed with Bhame;"4fSD. E.S.] . 5 ..-.T'.-Knp k