MORMONS OR MUGWUMPS?

NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 5

MORMONS OR MUGWUMPS?

"CHRISTIANS" CHASTENED AT CHRISTCHURCH. Morgan and Mead and the Mob. A Hot Time m the Old Town. The holy city of Christchurch, which- 'has just been given a foretaste of hell, has lately been infested with parsons, or sin-shifters, or sky-pilots of varying degrees of sanity and all preaching a different brand .of religion or any old sort of religion that has. neither head nor tail to it- Who the "Christians" are isn't exactly known, "but at all events a small mob of them have been conferencing, and praying, and going down the Avon m boats and having a right good time entirely. Men and women arrived from all parts of the colony, but an unrighteous public didn't know they were m the city until they came out to tho open and preached things m a mournful tone of dialogued They took up their pitch m Cathedral Square, where so many freaks and mountebanks are to be heard, and commenced their dismal exhortations to the people to go and be good. But the vehement manner iniwhich some of these maudlin moon? struck mischief-makers denounced all other religions on the face of the globe riled many of their listeners, and there was trouble on a number of * occasions. The first time on which their tenets (such as they are) were objected to a chap wanted to argue the point with a tongue like a tomahawk, . but the "Christians" resented his darned interference, so he commenced addressing the crowd on his little own. Then there was fun, but not for the holy brethren and sistern who were engaged m dispensing the Word. .They had an all-fired time of it, for when . THE INTERFERING JOSSER GOT GOING, the crowd got excited and made things merry. At least some of it did— well-dressed young rascals who are always on the look-out for a lark. Their troubles about religion,, but their actions induced others to* hustle the "Christians" m a most unmerciful manner. Sorn,e one started the mob cry, "Those jokers are d . Mormons," and, it was taken- up all round to such an extent that they had ,to flee for their lives. They were ohased here and there and everywhere, and showed that they possessed a pretty fair sprinting capacity m a time of need. A.ll escaped except two psalm-singing sousers named C. Morgan and E. Mead, and they got an awful doing. Mead, however, escaped, after the pair had struck j two friends m the shape of Sergeants Bird and Brooks. Morgan doesn't seem to Jinn- any pnrHiMilfir place m the Dominion m which to <