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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 101, 20 August 1873, Page 3

A PaBBNX AND PARIBHIONBE.

TO THS EDITOR.

Sie, —Does bad, rainy weather affect the spirit of your leaders ? X fancy tbe tremendous rains, blows, and perhaps the hail we had last week gave a stormy character to our parson’s sermons yesterday, particularly that of the evening wherein he “ pitched into” the secular education of our district schools most gloriously. Thttt part of hie sermon was original, at any rate. Polities from the press and our sins and shortcomings from the pulpit, but not abuse, if you please. Colonists can’t stand that, though they are willing to bs led and reasoned with in the right way, Wliufc L übu.so fehe District School io their own school-house, which, I understand, is lent “ free, gratis!” That is not in accordance with the » u .yiug, “ You should not look into tbe mouth of * orße can f quote exactly—bad memory!, Alien I have heard about a man ** quarrelling with his bread and butter”—very good “old saw,” too. .Now, an attack of this sort, whore the parson has all tbn eay irotn bis rostrum. is cowardly, because one can’t hii] in return. I did pity the poor School Committee.

Another thing I did not like : that mention of the lapiats at Rome.” If there ia one good feature in Tauranga society it is the good feeling that exists between Catholics and Protestants, of which I need not remind you. We simply ** agree to diner,” and that without bitterness. A little more of this indecent abuse and there will be empty benches and an opposition coaoh, I am thinking.

Hoping that our friend wid not again invite me to “ tread on his coat,” and that we shall not have any more “ north winds.”—l am, &c., Jahkdycb. August 18, 1873. (“leak House.)

TO THE EDITOB, % X f~, S l nCQ eTeniQ g services at the District School-house have been established it has been gratifying to notice nearly every Protestant maidservant in Tauranga regularly attending worship, la our clergyman wise to d scourugo their attendance by administering special public reproot 9 thus inducing them to stay away and spend the evening in " frivolity.”—l & c , f a Mxstbess.