CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2643, 9 July 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

■■ o PULPIT & POLITICS. (To the Editob.) Sir,—Last e'venirig:l read a letter in your contemporary signed' Settler' trying to damage Mr Beetham in the eyea of the Temperance Party, because

that gentleman .'at bis meeting.; o£m Tueßday:e^venmg.o l id riot'giye;a dheiSl pledge to : inpport, all the fads' that;;; "Settler"advocates,\ I,asa;mem»l| ber of one of qiiix ; local. | todies,'' eaniasßureVMr B v e.ethasf hat ■( fy M; nothing : ; : %)m v tlie' lnlueficf $' By; {lie tonfe flavoSyery: mucli ,the#r^flolfa^ 'Suscufs agb vtoWfor v : ijaj '"^fromilnrp^^very, 'flip!to '■ss? ctigp&t;' '■ ofr^ : ,,vlfs;. . portion- "of Ins 'mmo.6i .indignant' to %as to =.be; usejkatf ,gssii6sssd down' pfiopld'S: thtOflfe wh6;ss" were, or>ereiiQt,% ■ Church was rever ordained tobf.lisedf> as a means of setting classt against /: class, but as I'understahd-it, taprewh : the word of God,, and therebyestablish, a betterfeeling'' amongst the ;masses.;. It is evident the Rev, Gentleman-has.'. got a mania for Mr-Hawkins, judging . from the exhibition he made ol self with his-walking stick at a meetinglieid in\tlie' Theatre 'by Hawkins. Is it because; that Vgentlef.! man' condescended to preaitle^at one:Olf-'; two go6dy r gdody meotifigg v wbiqii; the yeT. gentlernan was; interested f : it is to bei regretted that Bliclrapwmißing;'; young (?) ifinisterslwuld allow; liirir: '-• self to be carried.: away;.jwitb pratipns of a clever retired .lawyer, * as to be jia ;• foolish as to■ dabble 1 his: Jfirigers .in,: printer's ..ink,-arid turn ',&: tpnterin • electioneering matters.. Poor, fellowj.. He - occasionally raves froin the pulpit; for' money, and his more wealthy pew-holders for'ritit '-i, giving more*, This myhaye. a better effect on his hearers, than ;a on Mr Hawkins, but also;'iri'this : .he should set an example, .He ifpbsaeged'' oi wealth, gets £2OO a year, jand'has; evel7.thi.rig found. How often-'does;ha-visit the;poor, and "contributei;<his portion according to. how the; Low: has prospered him'?". In.conclusion', I hope ;tho rev. gentleman'-will-be' more careful in future, as. his.; corigrV gation is;not;so large' that' he\eaii afford to ofterid-.any section of ..v, -."'' lam.etc.;,. JS r WESLUVApj^