REV. COLVILE AND NO-LICENSE.
To tlu; Editor. two passages on which probably the rev. frontleman has based many an" eloqi:e:s-t discourse. viz., "Ye cannot, serve two masters." and "Choose yon tliix day whom you will .serve." "x 0 w, on 1 hi':; Xo-Liccuse quest im, there are onlv t'.vo sides, for or against, and no amount of wriggling on anyone's part ran <-renie a third issue. This being so. no one can serve both sides, and if the rev. gentleman does not choose to serve his day and generation bv using his influence on tile side of this reform' then the influence must perforce g<; to the other side, whether he wishes it to do so or not; and the liquor people ale ever on the look-out for a parson (why specially a parson I do not know), hut the fact remains that it fills them'with glee to quote the utterances of a parson that suits their side of the question, and acre it is that the rev. gentleman is serving this great evil whether he intends it or not.—l am, etc., REFORM.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19141031.2.44.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 31 October 1914, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
183REV. COLVILE AND NO-LICENSE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 31 October 1914, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in