A Silly Parson

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 153, 23 June 1892, Page 4

A Silly Parson

• — , ♦— What rubbish some of the much advertised and self-advertising English parsons do talk, to be sure. The Rev Hugh Price Hughes, an English clergyman of a certain celebrity, has recently been pleased to lecture on what he calls * Socialist Delusions/ and delivered himself of the following: ' Suppose .all were well clad and well housed, would they be happy ? No. We have more misery in Belgr&via than in Whitechapel, more agony above tne poverty line than below it. What broken hearts there, are amid the glitter of Vanity Fair. The rev gentleman's logic is deplorable. Because Lady Vere dies of a broken heart, because Belgravia has human joys, and woes, therefore it is folly to seek to bring life and happiness to Whitechapel by seemg 1 that inequalities are removed, that the poor are decently clad and decently housed. What utter bosh ! The rev gentleman's doctrine is simply the old wretched cant that people ought to be satisfied with that state ol life unto which it ' has pleased God to coll them/ k that they are not to strive fur better things, not to hope for some small ray ol sunshine in their dreary lives of toil not to agitate, not to progress, le&* they upset the equanimity ot u<< well clad, well housed, smug-tamo rich.— JN.Zi. limes.