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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1199, 26 November 1873, Page 2

It is to us exceedingly distasteful to re-assail anyone who lias formerly been subjected to the lash of our criticism; but really when Itov Mr Edgor will persist in coming out as the " accuser of the brethren" we cannot resist the impulse to raise our voice for the cause that lacks assistance. At last night's Temperance Festival that person could not so far control the malignant jealousy of his heart respecting a band of ministers who will have nothing to do with him, as to spare a sick and absent clergyman whose chapel he was at the time occupying. With that unctuous cant which is so repugnant to every man of true manliness, lie spoke of "the singular coincidence that the pulpit he was then speaking from way the only one in the city in which moderate drinking was advocated." If Mr Edger had the feelings of a gentleman, which lie has not, the circumstance that the Ilev. Warlow Davics is absent from the colony and seriously ill would have restrained the illnatured remark. And when we compare Mr Warlow Davics, one of the worthiest, ablest, most oonaciontious and best Christian ministers of the city with this Ishmaelitish shepherd of a wandering (lock, there is not an honest man in Auckland that Mould not cry boo ! This blatant professsor of a creed that is as shifting and sapless as the sands of Sahara appears to build his hopes of success on dragging down the good and great to his own level ; and it is really deplorable that a cause so noblo and so good as that of Temperance is damned by his advocacy. We do not hesitate to say that nine tenths of the difficulties in the path of Total Abstinence are strewn there by intemperate bigots such as Mr Edger; and people who would lovo to labor for that cause fly the ranks of Teototalism in disgust. We havo always thought that Mr ledger has joined the ranks of toototalism only that he may have that platform as a vantage ground for blackguarding the ministers of the city ; and we verily believe that if ever he gets to heaven he will set to pull" ing the feathers out of Archangel Michael's wings, and that heaven would bo hell to him if ho didn't havo the opportunity of throwing mud at the angels.