QUESTIONABLE TASTE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4448, 7 April 1883, Page 2

QUESTIONABLE TASTE.

The New Zeiltni i Chuichman, published in Dunedia, has had the gaei> tionable'taate jto -inrert^ wtta*spnlrofaL § j quotation from the columns *orPurieV on the Salvation Army. Considering that I the remarks of the comic paper:are burlesque, and that such was not th'esoaroe' from which to draw material whereby; to judge a movementof which nuny just and good men in the Anglican and other Christian c(>a»rnooßitlibrouj?l)ly approVe, the action o the Churchman can scarcely be said to savor of that charity wfcich * religious organ might be expected |o "dis- . play. The quotation made * from Vow* witty contemporary," and which looks vary queerly in a Christianmagazine* is as.foU lows:—" The Saltation Army was sure not, to exist long without an imitator, and wi/1 •re therefore not surprised to hear of m Salvation Na*,y s under, (tie direction,' 0/ jt person caiiing himself Admiral Tag/ * Aa* miral Tug has learnt the trick from General; ; Booth of treating the most sscredjifcing* with almost blasphemous familiarity, aaijL he has summoned-hift sqpporlenifWith the^ following imitation of the Aratnusa: sea -song:— -■• • • ;.'-.-•:•-;-•-'»li.'..-.. i^.!^... . 'on boabb of thb 'ammt/jah 1 Come! all you •inners, yoang and oliw /, f With 'carts once cast in 'JCaren's mould, '* And join our Eer-ittian Navy,bold-— - On baud of the'Allelujah 1 We're bound to floor the forts of Sin,^nt7)f And the Devil himself will soon cave in. Then join the side that is sura to jrinr- : On board of the 'Allelujah.'"