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Kumara Times, Issue 287, 5 September 1877, Page 2

The Temperance Press, forSeptetqber, is to hand. It contains a letter from a correspondent in Kuraara, from which we extract the followino, having reference to the funeral ofthe late miev Stewart:—" She was a member of the Reefton Fraternal Lodge, and we'ltecided to give her a Templar's fuijteral, and a good mauy sisters and brothers met at the hall on Sunday morning''"for that purpose. Some 6hly went fo the top of the hill, but a good number went all the way to Stafford; but a circumstance transpired ■'■.-.'- which rat Ker damped the zeal of our'sifters and brothers, for the Rev. \Mr direct would not allow them to read the burial service. Now, I would ask you;-'.'Mr-Editor, is this the way' those' who 'pretend to follow the meek and" "lowly Jesus should acquit themselves? Ifc makes little difference whether it' & a rule of the church or not, if it. is, no real Christian'wrtnld uphold' such' i rule; but I can't help thinking that the opposition that we meet with : from a few of the cle-gy is prompt*? only by a consciousness that we are eu</a«ed'in a work th t they ought to be patrons'of: Imt their love for the flesh-pots of *gvpn is stronger than their desire to do good to their f«llowman." To this the Editor of the Temperance Press appends the following note :—« "We cannot conceive what reason the rev. gentleman could have had iu not allowing the service of the Order to be read iwr do we think' that he would have stopped it, had the members adopted the proper time, which is after the church service always. Ed'T.P."