PIETY AND HUMBUG.
The Rev. Mr Talmage docs not believe in “ perfect men.” In the course of one of his lectures he said, “ I never was so badly cheated in rny life as I once was by one of your ‘ perfect ’ men. He had got so far up in morals that he couldn’t see the rules of common honesty. These men who go prowling around prayer meetings, telling how much like saints they are-look out for them; keep your hands on your pocket books. The ‘ higher-life ’ man of a certain class, who goes around with a Bible under his arm, and who rushes into the counting room of a merchant who is adding a column of figures, and exclaims, ‘ how’s jmur soul ?’ is a nuisance. He makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha. I tell you, a roaring, roistering, bouncing sinner, isn’t so repulsive to me as one of that sort of higher-life men.”
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Patea Mail, 3 August 1880, Page 3
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