COMMERCIAL MORALITY,
♦ ~ ! The Hey. MrPaierwn, ef St. Paul's * Presbyterian Church, Invercargill. j preached on "C'Tnmercial Morality" j recently, and <we make the following extract from his remarks, tis reported j iin the local Times: — "One of the ■ most distressing sighs ef" the times •was the 'matter-of-course' way in I - ; t. hich neople slipped ont ot their ! Tesponsibilities by goin_ throngh the ! Bankruptcy Court. A perfect cnt-j :aract of bankruptcy poured through *he courts «»f tbe .olony. Men filed i ■without reason and without shame, j tand renewed t)he game of credit next «day. The old idea oi disgrace .vtta-hing to suck -an act seemed /entirely obliterated. He thought: : ithere was iirgeht need for an improve- > ment in the public opinion on this j ahatrer and _t was Wis «nd -everyone i else's duty to -end avoc to create a ' tetter pubße opinion on that sulfject to do thtir utmost to elevate the tone oi commercial morality, at pre- i rsient so deplorably
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 75, 6 March 1883, Page 3
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162COMMERCIAL MORALITY, Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 75, 6 March 1883, Page 3
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