SHOWING THEM UP.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4856, 2 August 1884, Page 2

SHOWING THEM UP.

I (F° Editor of the ETenibg SUr.) Sib,—As a resident for many years on the Fhames, and a mothM who has rb|»ed a large family* inthefearb? \iC^:**ns.is: my lights would^MlP^-^e^ijji^io^li^it' me to call the attedtibn of your ndni«roaft headers to the highly iofproper pioeeeding of'stopping young girls mi the strobecause they belong to the Salvation Armj. and asking them where they were '^^ 3 o'clock in the morning- On the occasioa bf Staff-Captain Wrightfs^vjsilS it was s half night o/ prayer, at which many reapectabie citizens I obserTed were present. Mr Wood, S3nr.,metmy daughter, Moreno* Reddish, and asked her that question, and .' I find last night it is quite eomxon for him to insult the Army people as they pass him —the women, of course. I^hbte?hi^ will not hare the presumptiou to address Me, or something unpleasant wijl occur. Mr Neill, the minister, in order toi bring the Salvationists into contempt,' says that we are cowardly and hideous-—my family are neither, thank j^ he will find out to his '• feoafe*.': •/ The rev/gentleman wants publicity ;Jbe shall hare it—and plenty of it, and except we receive orders to the contrary, jmy family will fight in this war against sin and the devil with an energy and deterinißation that never knows defeat, v Biri I, don't ask you to publish this letter out of raj sympathy you may have with the Salvation Army, but simply on the principle of fair play. J?or my owtt; part 1 would sooner hare your hatred th«n your friendship. Yourpapephaaabuaedus for montbaw —I am.-Ac, : ■'- •:■'';■ :!v;:C'v:o;iW..■;>%•;■•■■;".;-.-;i. ■ [We certainly must offer some apoioW to our readers for publishing the above Christian-like effusion, which it perhaps not entirely suitable to our colmnns bul as the writer of.; it asks fotlts^ jngertion ■■ a matter of,fair.play, waaoceae to her request, and leave it ioiourpeadeM to digesL As for the; desire lexpreised W the fair writer to possess bar ''hatred* rather than our "friendship^ w*i rejrrefc that we have no such commodity as^the former bn ; hand. We endeavor t/live on thevprmciplo of fostering■ that/'Deaee and good will towards men so-called religions persons Jprbfesji to encourage, but those actions belie their professions. We wish thefß^faniilyyie,--succesain their "fight against gin^ind thj devils and trust that the publicity the* threaten^the Rev. Mr JN?iltS|lt^[ cause to be disseminated tlie wholeiome truths and useful knowledge that gentle. man has shown himself to be a maiterm fathoming. Of course^ it would b© decidedly^^ wrong for any-person to moleafc or offenoVanother^be theySalwrtionilt or not,-and our correspondent quptet oh» case, but we are inclined to the belief that such occurrences; are far from freaoant WemustregretthehatredweaeeSSiSSi caused to grow, and; while admittinir tSat our sympathy in one sense it not withTlT* cause Mrs is-sb strSl?^ *no%?t point of are 5 exteude^S :w«*» e fery Individual rtnember bf SI Army, moreesyßciany tho^e;nnfbrtunitei ■■"..■■> ■:'■'.-' :•: 'V •■•■•' -' '■■•: •■'- ■.:.'-'.';';'V;.: "Sr:'./ ,■■:•.•'/■.■•....■■••: - : ■•■'•;