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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 78, 18 July 1877, Page 3

/ TO THE EDITOE. , ' , - . ' :SiE^--Iri ansiver to a letter^ appear-^ . . jng: m , this"^^ .morning's^ paper, signed ' '5 efdhri Harilon," allow irie/fo say that I ■'■_" should-haye'been willing, to attend.the poor: man Reid ; in-his last Kaurs hadl,: known of his illness ; and \had I been" asked to attend the funeral, /I/~should ■ iayedbne so with equal readiness. As for^those who "naturally expedted to see a/minister there to perform the last act of brotherly love," I 1 would assure them that I am ever willing to do anything m cpunectibn with my calling for members . rib Christian communion. But m thematter of the interment/pf a bbdy it' is" always expected that beforea niin;ister seeks \, to dispense hjs: service Sj r he^should be- asked to attend at an appointed, hour, "either by the friends of the deceased or an undertaker. r ' : <■■?'■■ Mr Hanlon is an acqiraintanee and v • neighbor . of -mine", therefore, : I canribt help"; thinking, that had he taken the . pains' to first ask inf prnoatiph froiV me .'' respectirig this matter; it .would have : been kinder;; than* ; -tbt- iiisei^?in the riejwspaper a- letter which,- persons '-at a , distancej not knowing the facts of the case, . may regard- as a reflection upon the resident minister^ — I am; &c;; v '■•>' ■'.■;.- •""-." T. G. HitkMOND, V ( "Wesleyan Minister. ',.'/ , ' Palmerstion North, Jidy 14th, 1877y^