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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 205, 8 October 1878, Page 4

Dr Talraage's expressions respecting religion and the effect it should produce upon religious men and women are, according to Morning Light, well worth reading. He says :— " I do not want to hear anybody talk about religion as though it were a funeral. Ido not want anybody to whine in the prayer-meeting about the kingdom of God. Ido not want a man to roll up his eyes, giving me in that way the evidence of his sanctity. I have yet to find one of those canting, lugubrious, and sanctimonious professors of religion whom I would trust with a ten-cent piece ! The men and women of G-od whom I happen to know, for the most part, find religion a treat joy. It is exhilaration to the body. It is invigorating to the mind. It is rapture to°the soui. It is balm for all wounds. It is harbor for all storms ; and though Godimows that some of them have trouble enough now, they rejoice because they are on their way to the congratulations eternal " Sixteen new looms have been erected at the Moagiel Woollen Factory, making a total of 34 looms at work. The goods of the Company now find a ready sale. Senator Jones of Nevada, sums up the Chinese question in one pregnant sentence, thus .- "They corruupt our youth with their vices, and they starve our men with their virtues. The members of the Dunedin Young Women's Christian Association have made arraugements for a weekly distribution of flowers to the iumates of the various charitable institutions of the city, more especially to those who are bedridden, A widow named Lacy, 70 years old, recently obtained; at the Hampshire assizes at Portsmouth, £10 damages for breach of promise of marriage from a dockyard pensioner 72 years of age. The Turks won't have much to boast of when they again hoist the Crescent over the citadel of Bayazid. -'It is the moss execrable hole on earth," writes an officer of the garrison. All the dungeons are crammed with corpses stuffed into the vaults dunag the memorable siege, and which are now in such an advanced state of decay that no one dare touch tbem, while the effluvia ascending into the citadel renders it totally uninhabitable by troops. The drinking water is tsken from cisterns and reservoirs decorated with a ghastly vegetation of skeletons— the remains of the Ottomaus who fell in storming the place ; and as for the garrison square, a filthier piece of ground one would scarcely find in a manure manufactory, or in a churchyard with the top taken off by the action of a flood. It is useless to ask why we don't cleanse the place— 60 per cent of the garrison are down with the typhus, and the remaining 40 have a natural objection to catching that disease by dealing with the infection. For many years to come Bayazid must remain unfit to 'live in; and the Russian authorities, reco<niisiu"- the xact, are discussing the removal oi the town to a spot fifteen versts away." "Matthew Burnett, the Yorkshire Evangehst and Temperance Reformer," is a name well known throughout the length and breadth ot Victoria, as that of one who has devoted nearly fourteen years to the philanthropic work of raising the fallen and degraded of both sexes from the thrall of vice Recently the daily papers have contained long advertisements of the crusade now being carried on in the suburbs of Melbourne, by Mr Burnett, through the means of Mission Meetings all the week, and " Working Men's Mass Meetings »on Saturday nights. Some ot the auxiliaries of our great circus shows are utilised by our reformer to cause that section of the gentle public that he seeks to benefit «« to roll up," on Saturday night. Mr Burnett had, at his own expense, engaged two band of music, and the local fire brigade torches and torch-bearers, which with two or three transparencies " fetched " the class of persons it was desired to reach, aud after processioning through the most democratic streets of Collingwood, gathering gradually but surely as it progressed, until there must have been fire thousand people, a halt ■ was made at the appointed reudezous, where mounted on a temporary platform, the reformer and his chorus from the neighboring churches formed the centre of an immense congregation, heterogeneous enough. Mr Lurnett has administered the pledge to 40 000 persons siuce he began his labors in Victoria Lum old adage- "Prevention is better than cure," should not be forgotten. 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