THE LATE CONCUR AT BLACKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1082, 19 January 1883, Page 3

THE LATE CONCUR AT BLACKS.

TO THE F.DITOH Sir - In your last issue appeired a letter signed “Paterfamilias,” wher in the writer says he fai ! s to see any indelicacy in the readings given hy I hr-la lies to th>’ir little fl ck at the late entertainment. It would he unkind to make invidious rem nks, as Mies Indies deserve all praise for the very excellent treat given the children, and the handsome manner the Christmas tree was •_ot up. especially as it was the first enterrainment given them in the history of Blacks ; hut that is no reason why ira proper reading* should p-'aa nnnoti ed. The one referred to by the Nasehy correspondent, 1 presume, was the chase of the devil by an old «oman, and the gist, of the stnrv, to use the elegant phraseology of the writer, c insisted in the fact that she had, afler a gn-at many failures, succeeded in catching Old Nick by the tail. However desirable it may be to serve his Satanic Majesty by noble or ignoble means to men and women in general, and Blacks in particular, this consummation has rot been achieved yet—not even here. And as fa!» hood is the one lieetting sin in this district—Sunday School children scarcely knowing the difference between truth and falsehood, or the disastrous consequences acoiuing to themselves and others from this pernicious habit. Knowing this Ihe brain must be veiy poor indeed which fails to detect the indelicacy, not to say the immorality of such reading before children.— I am, &c., Materfamilias. [This correspondence must here cease. - Ed. D.T.]