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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 209, 1 February 1872, Page 6

The Pulpit on Citizenship. — In a sermon preached at the " Church of the Messiah," New York, on the 24th

of September, the Rev. Mr. Hep worth made the following remarks, which are capable of a wider application than was given to them at the time and place of their . delivery : —"I impeach the people of this city as the final canse of the whole trouble. If we had done our duty as citizens and as fathers, if we had acted honorably as men, and not shirked the work that must be done by

some one, things would not have come to this pass. We have left the. work of administration to those who are unworthy of trust; sometimes by men whom we would not take socially by the hand ; and if we have not voted for them, we have not voted against them ; and then we have sat in our easy chairs and grumbled about the degeneracy of the times. You will not be found at the polls, you will not be found. at the primary meetings, you will not be found at the caucauses \ but you are always to be found in your own countinghouses, taking care of your private fortune, and you will always, grumble because 'the public fortune fa being stolen,!*