Ono for the Bible-mongcrs. —“I hate your “ perfect’ men. I never was so badly cheated in my life as I once was by one of j'our ' perfect’ men. lie had got so far it)) in in morals that he couldn’t see therules 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 ‘ high-life ’ man of a certain class, who goes around with a Bible under bis arm. and who rushes into the countingroom of a merchant who is adding a column of figures, and exclaims, ‘ How’s your soul ?’is a nuisance, He makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha. 1 tell you a roaring, roisteringbounoingsinner, isn’t so repulsive (o me as ono of that sort of higher-life men.” —“ Talmage.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2268, 24 June 1880, Page 2
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136Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 South Canterbury Times, Issue 2268, 24 June 1880, Page 2
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