A Solemn Warning.
8^ The : Archbishop ct, Tuatn, yin his ' Lenfett; pastoral to his people vjof ttte Gorki atight p^afiefrproyirice, thas warns : j againsVcriihe and < secret societies^:— Would to., God,, we, were spared the painf nl duty 1 of cailiDg J on you to join in^buf - 'solemn condemnation of the shoeing. ;9u{|rageßon|. hjaman life etill fresh' m bar countrji a by*word of reproach, and. which have brought great disgrace riot only on religion, but on humanity itself. If we refer to them on' tbi8 r 'occasion it 1 is not so much for the purpose ofi^spiringyon with,feelings •! 'of hu'miliation'as with the practical view of warning you against those wicked, unhallowed associations of which they are m a great measure* the immediate outcome—to inaplr re cf you as you love your couutry; j as yoa love your.-families and innocent children, : on ' whom you would bring iircparable ruin ; as you love your parents, whom you are commanded to Honor ; as you value your tempoVal and eternal happiness, here and hereafter, to fly as you, would from, the face of a serpennt the wicked? men who^ going about m the dark, them*
selves kept harmless, hypocritical professional love of country on their lipi, wherewith they trade on our hone t, confiding simplicity, are m their hearts plcting your* destruction. Need we. trnvel far back into the past m proof of this?" '•, '■ : ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 110, 17 April 1883, Page 3
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228A Solemn Warning. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 110, 17 April 1883, Page 3
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