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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5635, 22 April 1879, Page 3

-.Advertisement] TO THE EDITOR OR THE NEW ZEALAND TTSIES.' Sib, —I beg to acknowledge receipt of the enclosed, forwarded to the j.P.’s address by post this morning ; TAKE ADVICE !!! • i A QUERY. ■ " See how yon Justice rails.’’—Leah. • -To the Editor of “ The New Zealander." 1 Sir,—Might I through the medium of your paper Inquire into the meaning of certain “advertisements” that now and again make their appearance in the New Zealand Times, signed by: a gentleman who. like Justice Shallow, is determined the public shall know that ho is a “real live J.P,” Are these, Mr. Editor, seemingly puerile and childish effusions in reality the productions of a highly cultivated mind, full of deep learning and refined satire, quite past the understanding of ordinary m' rtals, or are they but the outbursts of a feverish brain, combined with a naturally bilious constitution; if the latter, might I suggest, in a friendly way two Cockle's pills night and morning, and Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup at frequent intervals.—l am, &c., Unicorn. I am, &c., - C Thomas 0. Williams, ■ Secretary to the J.P. ' FPEETTIOU GHT. ; TO THE EDITOR OP HIE NEW ZEALAND TIMES, Sm, —With reference to the 12-Secularist tracts forwarded to the J.P. on Friday li\st, an acknowledgement of the receipt of which was published iu your columns on Saturday last, seeing that inside tho envelope isthefollowing—“An acknowledgement of the enclosed in the columns of the New Zealand Timeswill ensure the receipt -of a second instalment,” the J.P. presumes the sender expects him to publish a few remarks bearing upon those tracts—a kind of review of their contents, I am instructed to forward the enclosed for publication.—l am, &c , , • Thomas C. Williams, - , Secretary to the J.P.

TO TUB EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND. TIMES. Sir, — The J. P. sat in Court. Mi - . Inspector, go bring me the young man who' sent me the twelve Secularist tracts. . Enter Mr. Inspector. You can’t find him? Bring me the first Secularist or Freethinker you may come across.. .Young man, sit you down.. One of you jolly fellows sent me a dozen of your | tracts last,week. , There is a little sense to be irata » cri-nat he.il of nonsense. Much that, is silly and foolish. Much that is abominable. Much more abominable. Much that is vile.. “Secularism teaches that punishment occurs, here, and does what it can to take care that it shall follow an unatoned offence.” “Does what lit can!”. Can you always do it ? “ Thus a consistent Secularist would' seek to cure bodily , sickness, and to pel-vent its occurrence or recurrence, and this solely by the application of the means experience had recorded as probably useful. The consistent theologian, on the contrary, affirming that an immutable Deity had preordained the illness and its termination, ought entirely to disregard the' remedies experience furnishes.” Young man, is this true ? Don’t yon know “ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor?” Look around you) young man. Our chemist shops. Our doctors. Our surgeons. . Our Hospitals. Our asylums. “We have to qbolish the House of Lords as an hereditary legislature.” Young man, you Secularists are one “ we.” There are other “wes.” “ God claims the whole world as his, and builds his churches everywhere. We claim the ’ whole world ,as man's.” Young man, this is grand. May I ask when and where your title was and is registered ? “So we drive back the God-idea, back from off the ground we have .won, and keep the sword point'ever towards it with the one hand, while we till the ground with the other.” This is grander—most grand. Young man, tenahoe, just about this time. “ Thus Secularism regards* science as- the- true, Providence, and affirms that by thes tudy of man and the application of the results of that study this Providence can be brought to confer ever richer and richer boons on our race.” Just so, young man. “We praise thee, 0 science. We acknowledge thee to be the Lord.” Mr. Secularist, Providence, by name science, attention 1 Who horn’d you? Your age? Are you a two tooth, a four-tooth, a six-tooth, a ten-tooth,~a twenty-tooth, or have you any teeth -at all at all ?' Where were you but yesterday ? “ When I laid the foundation of the earth. . . . . when the morning 'stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Mr. Providence, by name science, attention ! Go get shaved. In the tract headed “ The Bible and Woman” we read “ Christians forget to teach that while among them the women were told, to keep silence, &c.” “But Christianity degraded them .and thrust them down, holding them as daughters of Eve; the first temptress.” “ But in spite of. all this degradation wrought by Christianity ," &c. . This is .immense. Of course, you give me to understand that the Christian wives of Wellington are degraded, that they are dwelling ih a state of subjection, and are submissive to their Christian husbands. Young man, you must be some juvenile simpleton to send such' nonsense as this to the J.P. Why, if there is any portion of St.' Paul’s writings to which the Christian wives of Wellington take exception, it is that where ho enjoins “ wives, submit yourselves to your husbands.” They say they believe all that Sf. Paul has to say, with that one little exception. There .they are with you. . They are Freethinkers. / They say that St. Paul lived and died a bachelor, never was married, that he had no manner of right to dictate to them how they should conduct themselves re their husbands. My friend, there are Christian women in Wellington who would have the cheek.(l may be pardoned the expression, being a J.P.) to comb St., Paul’s hair for him himself grant them the opportunity. And wouldn’t they comb it, just for that one little remark of his. Young man, you go take your walks abroad in .Wellington ; ask the Christian wives of Wellington’whether " they are subjected to and submissive to their husbands. Young man, take my advice, don’t you doit. Without more ado they would pack you off .to the Asylum, where there is “a bed long enough for you.”.' “ We snhaajssive to our husbands, indeed!” You go wait upon those “poor creatures,” fjie Christian husbands of Wellington, go ask them whether their Christian wives are subjected to and submissive to their husbands.’ J They also, without more ado, would pack you off to the Asylum.. When a married Christian man of Wellington peruses his Bible, when he comes to that portion of St. Paulis writings where he enjoins “wives, submit yourselves to your husbands,” his cry is, “ St.-Paul! St. Paul 1 you were a : grand, a brave, excellent, good, and exemplary man. We believe, all you teach ; muchly do we believe in that little portion of your teachings, ‘ Wives,-sdb-