MR. LUSH ON GOOD FRIDAY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1778, 2 April 1874, Page 3

MR. LUSH ON GOOD FRIDAY.

.To the. Editor of the TEAMB3,ADVBMIfIEB;;i : 'j'i

Sib,—The remarks of Mr Lush, as reported in your issue of Mouday, last, .. appears to me to be somewhat'contra; j> dtctory. Ho states, "No one nnre fully* recognise! than he did the? oivil. and* religious liberty. of everyv.man;", also •> that, "with the memoers of other, religious bodies he had nothing to do;""" and in; the same sentence he does interfere with the conduce of o'tner bodies. I would like to kuosv if this' Band of Hope referred to belongs to the Church"' of England Total' Abstinence Society, a society whioh is doing much good in dingland, but which 1 have not yet learnt of its formation on the 'flumes. Possibly : the Baud of Hope is the commenoenunti of the movement.

-As miny good'Ohmliaus do c h#'dti»£ serve saint or churoli holidays, while others objeeva them more rigidly tliaa God's holy day. To tliis class Mr ; Lush evidently belongs, for he oaa tolerate the lively strains of the dram and;; fife on duadayvbuG not oa flood Friday. ), ;Afc,Lmh mast admit that many uaeful religious denominations do not observed Good Friday. I know in some parts of • England the, "day is - regularly used' for o soirees and temperance meetings;' With ;i£r'iusfct'a'' semi- Popish, preaoliiiig; add''; practice I. We! ao 'I thiuk'; the.Oliuroli would be baue&te'dby a plosec, , imitation of the example of Christ ;ia ,' preference to following St. Peter,, or. hiai', so-oalled sucoesaors, so rigidly as soma; ; now-a-days would;teaoh.—l am, &c,, , : ;:J ■ H. .