MISS ADA CAMBELL'S OFFER OF £5 TO THE PALMERSTON NORTH BENEVOLENT FUND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1745, 28 June 1886, Page 2

MISS ADA CAMBELL'S OFFER OF £5 TO THE PALMERSTON NORTH BENEVOLENT FUND.

(to the editor daily standard.) Sir,— Permit me though the columns of your .paper to reply to a silly, impertinent, and misleading effusion, ..which appeared m your issue of Thursday last, from a person who signed himself "Old BenWolence.'* The person m question commences' his 'letter by remarking,; "How kind of dear Miss Campbell to think, -of increasing, the y Benevolent Society's funds— l do hops' she will carry oat heir liberal; intentions," etc. That statement is misleading to the public,inasniuch as it suppresses the conditiou under which the offer was made; viz., that someone should "come forward and refute the statements made m the lecture . '* The offer Is still open, and if "Old Benevolence ■' will cocqe for ward like a man, and refute (if he can) the statements made m the lecture, the £5 will be increased by me to £50 (fifty), and will be paid at once to the funds of the Instttutipn. It would be a great deal more to the credit of " Old Benevolence " to do so, than to .attach m- a mean and uncharitable manner—under shelter of a nomde plume— a woman who is spending what is far more precioHß than gold m the service of her fellow-beings — viz., the best years of her life, and her whole en«rgies, to lift them out of the sloughs of theological superstition, the thick darkness m which Christian teachings have immersed their minds. "Old Benevolence" "cannot conceive of any one being so ungallant as to dispute with the fair sex. 1 ' What a contemptible excnse for his want of conrage m not coming forward to take up the gauntlet of defiance flung m the teeth of all the Christians of Palmerston North. Though! "iOld Benevolsuce " cannot couceive of anyone befog? so ungallant &v to dispute with a lady, yet he can be ungallant enough to insert )in ' the^eplumns of a, new|paper m uiigentlemany '- ; and "■-. "iusultiug epistle, reflecting upon % lady who is a total stranger to him. Perhaps "Old Benevolence "is the opponent referred ;4o to the It/osl, and finding he had a very bad case to defend thought it safer to k«ep m the background,, and now tries to divert public attention from himself by sneering at the reality of $he- expected opponent As ''Old "B^htvoienco," (jndging by the beading of his letter) is fond of quoting scrip, ture, let me direct his attention to tn<t following passage m Corinthians, . '•Though I apeak with the, tongues of men and aiigeJs, and have hot charity, lath become as sounding brais, or a tinkling cymbal; though I have faith so that I could remove' mountain*, tqd have not charity, I am nothing, Charity luffiereth Ipng tnd ia kindi cliarity enyietb upt, doth net b»h»vo ,f|Wj!f qr»«i« ( era|y pi natfl&sjljr prqvgked. m hnkfthWiuiV Tafijotb,, f