"THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1913, Page 2

"THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM."

(To tho Editor.) Sir, -"To know how little we know is the beginning if wisdom." Mr Murdoch, in his challenge, argues from wrong premises. I challenge him to point to one of the scores of religions that is not a superstition. True love, charity, morals, selfsacrifice, .'ill existed thousands of years before the meek Nazanme expounded his religion, which did not stop at charity, but cut sit the roots of parasitism, too, for he was not suffering from tsmug respectability. Rut parasitism is very much alive, expounding Christianity. Now Labour, like Christ in his time, is still a pariah. The money changers hold the temple. Abnormal poverty i\ the direct result of the hundreds of millions of wealth parasitical Christianity takes from the useful neople. It takes millions and gives p few pounds to Chris twin charity. A small number of noble souls pick a few of the thousands of derelicts for attention ami cave, thus making them unconscious helpers of parasiiism in producing more derelicts. No one h.ns anything but praise for those noble men and women found iv every land, under every religion /)•• without religion, administering !.• the maimed and derelict, but Christianity has no monopoly of t.''.r-\ They represent the prize flowers in tho world wide, human nursery. T entirely agree with Mr Murdoch on the matter of Christ, I,V man. nnd his love message being far above those war giants of his-tory—-Caesar, Xerxes, Alexander, Napoleon. But at present day Church:sm the real article? is it consistent? How of the mountain giving birth to the mouse.? Croat diseasese require great remedies. Charity, '.o alleviate passing inevitable afflic'ii.iK is, and always will be, praiseworthy. Charity as a remedy for n'e-ont social diseases is ineffective "ml degrading, it is a race crusher for it intensifies disease. Comparatively. Mrs Partington in sweeping back the tide had sense. ]S T ow read tins item from to-day's paper:— LONDON, Dec. 31. Tho Daily Telegraph's Budapest • orrespondeiit. after seeing the reports obtained by Austrian, English Italian and Norwegian war correspondents, declares that all cruel persecution related in history would have, been flagrantly repeated by deuersil Jankoviteh. of the Servian Army, who deliberately extermiI'.ited young and old of both sexes. Some three thousand persons were killed between Kumanovo and Uskuh. Five thousand Arnauts at Prishliiia wei'e unjustifiably nnirdere'l. Many villages woro. fired « n< l the !li'eing inhabitants shot like rats. Helpless women were, forew! —-to watch their children being literally i-ii'ved to pieces with bayonets.

Executions are the daily diversions til' the Servians. M. Panic's (tterviian Premier) for'•'•T secctaiT states that the way■>de from Prizend to Tpek u-a.v .-lined ••vith gallows whereon were, him;' Al- ( banians. , "-*>« When the regiment entered Priz- mf !k'I!(1, Colonel Oskovitcli shouted •'Kill them!" .and the soldiers rusliod tho lionses and niiirderod evoryono. 'Hie floods per|)(!trated at Prilip ::m(1 Kossovo exceed anything that '.lie Allmniaiirs sulFered under Tnrkish rule. A Hod Cross doctor relates,.i,hatOoiieral Stefanovitch, nur ICraUtvo, r.laced one hundred prisoners in tuo rows and shot them witl] machine guns. Those aro not the deeds of Anarchist fiend incarnate (lie is fin nngel '\v comaprion) or a. team of Royal ' bengal Tigers let loose, but of white men and devout fellow Christians; their hand red with. minxler in the name of God. Tho con£iirife\are red with such deeds. Mnny: w}>uM / have to be the acts of :• and eharitv io r balance the account : - -let alone lieing siihstmitinlir on the right side.—T am, etc., ■• ] Weraroa. 2nd January, v jfl^|