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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 281, 25 November 1881, Page 3

To the Editor of thb " Evening Mail." Sik,— The letter of Mr W. J. Harper in your issue of the _2q*l instant cannct fail to evoke feelings of a rather mixed nature. As an adoptive parent, Mr W. J. Harper is sure to have the sympathy of evf-ry woll meaning person, as a well regulated Christiaj, for being piously shocked at the sight of a nun on a Sunday entering tbe r rivate door, which happens to lead into a public house, I hope he will come in for all his deserts hereafter ; as an appellant for assistance at the bands of the authorities he is raihe-r infili.itous, as I cannot see how any authority could check the Bacchanalian pror-en.ities of his adopted; and lastJj. aa a member of the community I must remind him that thousands of people are vexed and inconvenienced by a number of befot'ed individuals, just like his adopted, wbo have frightened the New Zealand Scions into making certain law 3 which savour more as though wafted lo us from the banks of tbe Neva, than as beine begotten in the sh.de of the free _a« of _;A land. To conclude, I trusMhat Mr W. J Harper, as a prcf_.sed Christian, will derive comfort from the conviction that the more tho innocent suffer ;he grr-ater their share in the kingdera to come. And, after all, his suffering is cotbiDg compared with those wa see around us. 1 know for instance of an accurrence where a man of an evangelisti*: turn of mind, in order to augment another's Bhare in heaven, got that person to suffer -false impriponment, and many other like

cases could I cite by way of consolation, bu space does not permit. So I advise M r W J. Harper to do the best he can with his adopted, aDd get hia dirty linen washed at home.— l am, &c, Rea_>-R.