THE CADGERIES.

NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 4

THE CADGERIES.

The bare-faced cadging of those licensed mendicants and confidence men, the parsons, beats all. They are supposed' to fcach the people all about things spiritual— of which they know nothing whatever, not as much as a phrenologist knows of the real meaninsr of bumps or a palmist of the trend and. deductions of the lines m a hand— but what they are really out for is the "stuff." It is not enough to be piratically plundered if one yen-? tures into a church ouib of curiosity or otherwise, but every visitor to every Loard's 'Oiise," nowadays has. something like the following, which isbrought all the way from lyiasterton, stuck under his or her nose. Get onto ihe smoodse and the awful diction ! : — MASTERTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Envelope 'System. M .'..... Would you kindly fIU m the amount you de-sdre to give m weekly support of your Church, and please return throuprh the Offertory Plate on Sunday, of by post, and kindly oblige. . Collector. I desire to contribute the sum of s d weekly m support of the Church. Member or Adherent.