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New Zealand Mail, Issue 14, 29 April 1871, Page 12

Coloniali Wine. —We note the report of a sale in Melbourne at auction of 30,000 gallons in one line on private terms. BIiASPHEMY.— The Melbourne “Age” records the following natural outgrowth of the recent Jones’ blasphemy case: —The Rev. James Pillars has been lecturing on blasphemy before the congregation of the Unitarian Church, Sydney, in connection with the recent prosecution of Mr Jones. The rev. gentleman concluded in the following emphatic manner : —“ I am, in a word, prepared to stand by Jones.,in all that he has said in disproof and disapprobation of the Bible as the Word of G-od, and of the Jews as bis chosen people ; and if for uttering fearlessly and outspoken my opinions upon the subject, I am to be sent to prison, to prison will I go, and there, sOoner than surrender my right to denounce error and superstition, there .shall my bones rot. Mr Jones is not a blasphemer. A blasphemer is one who professes a creed in which he does not really believe, or who abjures a creed in which in his heart he believes to be true. What is it to blaspheme God, if it is. not to act before God a living lie ? I know of no blasphemy but the blasphemy of insincerity—of unfaithfulness to conscience, professing one belief, and holding another; in a single word, the blasphemy of a false and lying soul.”