NEVER MIND THE WEATHER IF THE WIND BLOWS FAIR.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 234, 7 March 1885, Page 3

NEVER MIND THE WEATHER IF THE WIND BLOWS FAIR.

Auckland is not free from men who -will scale any heights or descend any deptns to make money. I can quite understand a man of the world in this respect, because mammon is the god "before whose shrine he bows down and worships. But when a " good " Presbyterian has no qualms of conscience, and is content to make money by moans legitimate and illegitimate, no matter how vile the latter, it is sufficient to make the hair of a virtuous man stand erect. The recent fire in " Black Julia's " den, Rokeby-street, has had the effect of bringing to light a little aflair not at all creditable to the man of God whose inonev has been applied to the carrying on oi the works of his satanic majesty, it there is any virtue in religion, it should restrain its professors to "do all in their power to lead people into the path of rectitude ; but alas . it is not so. Not a person in Auckland is unacquainted with the rumours, founded on fact that have floated about in reierence to the disgraceful proceedings that nightly have been gome: on at the brothels m Bokeby-street, and yet we iincl a professor of relic-ion, and, above all, a I resbytenaii, aiding and abetting these debaucheries by lending money to a prostitute to -purchase a .Jfcurase,' which she lets to another trail sister, therein to carry on the purposes 01 her licentiousness. I cannot find iault with a radical man of the world making tno most of every wind that blows, but when a " saint : ' does such a thing, and at the same time palms himself off as a model of piety, no language is too harsh to denounce him. By this I am forcibly reminded of the chorus of a very old song— " 'Tis a world of flummery. There's nothing but deceit in it— The same we ever find As we travel on."