REPLY TO MR BRIGHT.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2862, 17 April 1878, Page 2

REPLY TO MR BRIGHT.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Si*, —In this morning's Advertiser there is a letter signed "J. Bright," enquiring from whom I derive' my authority to burn and destroy Sunday School hymn-books and Scripture pictures purchasad by voluntary contributions collected in Parawai for religious instruction. As this letter is not anonymous, I have no objection to answer the question; and shall be obliged if you will kindly allow my answer to appear in your paper. In searching the two. cup* boards belonging to the Parawai Sunday School for a book of manuscript" music which my daughter had prepared for the use of the Sunday School children, I found a quantity of soiled and torn hymnbooks, stray leaves of Bibles, and several pictures in rags and tatters ; and I did with this small heap of melcss, dilapidated fragments what I have done many times with similar collections at other Sunday Schools with which I have been connected—" burnt them:" for I deem it more revereut to destroy by fire stray pages of the Holy Scriptures and fragments of sacred songs than tp throw them into the road, to be trodden under foot by every passer by, or, perhaps, picked up and shamefully used. The insinuations in tb3 rest of Mr Brighfs letter are not wor-hy of notice ; but I should like the Editor of the Advertiser to know that there was not, to the best of my belief, even a fragment of Mocdy and Sankey's hymns burnt by me. I carefully looked over the collection, and the stray torn leaves were from other hymn-books.—l am, &c, Vicesjmus Lusii, Superintendent of Parawai Sunday School. '