THE LYCEUM CHALLENGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1742, 24 June 1886, Page 2

THE LYCEUM CHALLENGE.

fTO TKB BDITOb' i;AIt,Y B'i'ANDABD.) "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them. 1 ' Sir,— How kind of dear Miss Campbell to tUiiik of increasing the Banevo lent Society's funds. F- have be*n anxiously waiting the result m your paper. Ido hope she A will carry out her, liberal intention, although uothinjg has been heard about the daring man who was going to refute her argument. Is he still alive ? I cannot conceive^ any; one"being so ungallaut- as Ho dispute with th§ fair sex. It is far better to lei the dear ereatnres have their own way, they soon get tir«d of talking rubbish. But, Mr Editor, I do think U would have been more m keeping with th« Freethinkers' motto— "The world, is our Country,:and to do good dttr> Religion, 1 ' if they bad desired to do something handsome, to "have done good by stealth, and blush to make it known,'' as the poet pots it, than to flaunt it before the public. I am afraid it was v rather a bad attempt to cause a draw to the hAll for the sake of lucre, m order , to raise .suffiient passage-money to seod 'the. f air leWureps further on I do trust they have raised eomcient.— l am, etc., .• - .■ Old BaNEvoLENOE^^t.