THE SALVATION ARMY.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 137, 28 April 1883, Page 87

THE SALVATION ARMY.

The following lines from a Sydney eonten., racy are appropriate at this juncture : — 7 Is this religion ? — then, indeed, \ For us no canting, grasping creed ! ( No ! we for one will not endure \ The gross rant of the pseudo-pure ! — ■ The common stuff that's got by rote, j By sordid knaves, all paid to quote. / Is this religion ? — then 't is fit i Ye gods ! we should have none of it ! j Religion ? — in those brazen sounds,— j The braying of those oily hounds — \ Dull fools — too dull to burn with shame. \ "When their pens cannot write their' n ami : = Can these ghouls with true ardour burn ] When they're too indolent to learn y The rudiments of Syntax, when I ■ 'Tis known to every child of ten. ' Religion ! — Are these brayers sent ! Without a single argument, [ And knowing next to naught about I The Book they painfully spell out:-. / Are these men sent to bray and brawl, j And beg in some cobwebby hall, jk§ And "with a mad " revival " ruse W Convert' a tinker to their views ? / Ah, no ! the world it never is / In those mad times, as mad as th^s. "The rabble," then, perchance weU'u told, They'd preach into their frowsy foflk^ Absurd, when these untutored elve^H^ Are rabbles-nothing else, — themseV^^Afc We have seen " wrestlers "i£HtiHHHBF^ >x j^^Jltripping, periods on *hJfl9|^BHP > H^B^jelists who made B|BB|BBfcM^nci wom ftßjllHßßHw •■-,' , BBBBSII^BsHiBr

■Hut the pencil studies are very favourRle the fancy work of Misses Bleazard dsley and Mrs Clark are really capital, ckelvie collection largely reinforced the attractions of the exhibition, and the genevalresult, .as already stated, has been highly satisfactory. It is a subject for congratulation to all true lovers •of art that Mr Mackelvie, out of the abundance of those riches which he realised from the Thames, has given back to Auckland specimens ■of the highest standard of art; procurable in England which will assist in forming the judgment of- the future artists of this Colony. The classic landscape, blue sky, and bright tints of Auckland scenery possess all the soft beau- , ties of the Grecian, and with the encouragef^ment of such patrons as Mr Mackelvie, the Hon. T. Russell, C.M.G-., and Dr Campbell, Auckland must at no remote period become the seat of art and poetry. We wish the Auckland Society of Arts all prosperity, and ■ trust that its laudable efforts to raise the minds of the people above the sordidness inseparable from the struggle of modern life, to the contemplation of the true and the beautiful in nature, ■will continue to receive that support which it so well merits.