The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1886. TEMPERANCE AND CHARITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2488, 22 December 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1886. TEMPERANCE AND CHARITY.

We havo high authority for believing that temperance is a great virtue; but that the greatest of all is fcharity. Surely this must have been forgotten at last night's temperance -meeting, when Mr Hawkins and others " went" for the Rev W. E. Paige because ho did not attend the • meetings of the Temperance Union. They might havo remembered that there,- are sincere, honest men in the community who do not belong to; their union, who do not attend their gatherings, and who yet are workers in the temperance cause. If .they doubt this, we aro in a position •to absolutely prove that in Masterton there are such meii, who in a quiet way do more goodfor the temperance cause than some of tliosojvho "chirp, frim the bouse tops." The zeal of temperance advocates when they appear ojv the 1 platform carries them too far. With one fell swoop they brush the ten commandments on one side, and substitute for them an eleventh, " Thou shall sign the pledge." It must not be supposed that ye deprecate ithe good work which ,)ye believe is now being accomplisliedjby the Temperance Union, or think lightly of the evils connected with the drjnk traffic.. We would say to the Union,work on" but do not be uncharitable towards your neighbors, who are perhaps engaged in a precisely

• Siimitiu' o|ii'i'iiti(iii, Inciiihi* llii'v ili,ut wciii 1 your rolms. If, is \vi'hin mr kiifnvli'ilsii. tlnii*• lie rev »' ivlunmu wim W\siii»li'i| diii. lust iiijrln for his whim ■i'l sympathy wi'li tln> tHinp/'rinui' oaiisi*. 'lias-il'i/ii quiot.uuiissuiiiiiig 'manner beeii doing temperance wqrk in this tovfa. 'We like to see temperance work accomplished, but uncharitable Speeches are not temperance work." ■