General News.
The European Mail has the following item :—-A large number of respectable but short-sighted persons who lent their favor and gave their money to the mischievous burlesque of a religious movement called the Salvationists have now come to their senses. The Earl of Shaftesbury has denounced the whole business in terraSjof the strongest reprobation. The clergy are now painfully aware of the havoc this service has wrought among the humbler members^ of their congregations. The minds which are captivated to religion by noise and the language of carnage, by the symbols of murder aud incendiarism, are ill-balanced, and the after-effect is as painful as the getting sober to a man or woman who has been drunk for a lengthened period. There is hope that the worst is over. The funds are failing, and even the offer of 5 per cent, here below and salvation up above has not brought in the sinews of war to the General's satisfaction.
A clock has been erected in the members' room of theLondod Stock Exchange which requires neither winding nor regulating, and is warranted to indicate correct time for about five years.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4491, 28 May 1883, Page 2
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190General News. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4491, 28 May 1883, Page 2
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