Correspondence.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22209, 6 March 1900, Page 2

Correspondence.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions- expressed by our correspondents.. TO THE EDITOR*. Sir;— Humor says that a young girl from one of the Homes in Auckland, disappeared,, from, the- house of the Rev McFarland on-the night of Sunday, the 25th ult., and has not since been seen or heard of. Gan this be true ? And yet'we eat and drink and sleep,, whilst the fate- of. a child 1 of tender years (known - to be- weak minded) is uncertain, perhaps lured away to a fate worse tH an death ; and yet with the odour of sanctity we preach to the ninety and nine,, and;forget the one wandering on the bleak mountain side. Alns for the rarity of Christian charity 1. If it had been the pet of one of our own Households, what efforts would have been put forth to find the wanderer ? but because she may be a, nameless waif, never having known the love and’ care of a mother or the protection of a father; - whocares? If it be as report says I trust that the young men, and those who children of their own, will at once 'come forward, give their names in to your office, as willing to organise a systematic search of mountain and valley, and so solve the uncertainty now existing,—l am, etc:, Nercus.