THE GOLDEN RULE.
(To Lire Editor of the Times)
Kir,—ls the age of chivalry dead, or can it, he possiole that all consideration for the sufierings of shipwrecked people be absent from officers and men of any nationality ? Alas ! now ami then we hoax, as in the Elingamite case, that those tossing on the ocean, helpless and dying, have seen . a sail, the vessels actually draw near, in some cases lower a boat, and then for some reason (God only knows) turn away and leave those whose plight was pitiful enough to ninjic the most callous weep, to perish by hunger, exposure, a iid thirst., Such will meet their reward in that day, if not before, when the Diaster will say : “ Depart from Me, ye cursed, into outer darkness. For 1 was an hungered, and ,ye gave me no meat; thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; naked, and ye clothed, me not; sick and in prison (which was and is literally tlhe case), and ye vis-
ited me not.” Oh, for the time when such detestable conduct shall be. no
more, and men “shall blithers he and a’ that,”—l am, etc., ' HUMANITY, (The .writer is under a wrong impression, There is no, question that those on the raft saw a steamer, hut the raft was not. seen from .the steamCiv—Ed. Times.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 574, 19 November 1902, Page 3
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