ARCHBISHOP MANNING'S PASTORAT

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 195, 9 August 1873, Page 2

ARCHBISHOP MANNING'S PASTORAT

The following extract from tbe Pastoral Letter frod/SrcTJf-b-ishop Mounnig is pertinent and worthy of notiqjp~" You. will sanctify this day, tbe ere of St. Patrick, nnJno-mofrow, so far as is in your power, by tbe devotion^y^ piety wliich arc the mask of his faithful children. We pray you with all the affection of our heart to let your esSViple dud your conduct show the love and the honor you bear to your spiritual father. It is our intention, -on Monday, the 24th, which is (he octave-day of St. Patrick, to hold in the evening % public meeting, and io found an association, in union with the associations in Liverpool and Birmingham, for the suppression of an evil which must be confessed to be the most scandalous sin and glaring ihanie of our country — wo mean the abuse ot drink. We do not cay drunkennetb, because many abuse intoxicating drink without ever being detected in drunkenness. It i» an abuse which is to be found in every class, from the highest to tbe lowest ; it it not the shame ofthe poor only, but of the rich also. It has been gaining stealthily uppn every class. In the most refined and unsuspected- form', it has crept into houses, and enslaved men, women, and even children, of every condition ~6f-^birth, culture, refinement, and rank. For this cause the clergy of the diocese twice in the year will bring before the conscience of all our flock the use and abuse of the good creaturei of* Gk>d. They will remind all men of the -Apostle's words, '"Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do" all to the glory of God' (2 Car. x. 31). There is a rights and a wrong in the use of our daily food. GHuttony and drunkenness are not the only sins of abuse in this matter^/ Food and drink are given for life, health, 1 hankfulneSs. Sobriety and temperance are fruits of the Holy Qhost. We. must preach for these, as well as against excess. We need to note in ourselves and in others under our charge the. graceful and salutary laws of moderation. ' All beads ■ ofhouseholds, all fathers and mothers, are bound to be tern-, perate, not only for their own sakes, but for, the sake of all, about them. If they be temperate, there will be few under.' their roof who will not be temperate also. If tbe high, and refined, and educated would set this exemplary Christian, sobriety clearly and broadly before all classes, there would' be less excess in those below them. Therefore, beloved children in Jesus Christ, do not think that our exhortations of nest Sunday apply only to those whose »in and shame, aye open and notorious. If all were temperate, and if all the temperate would join together in a league of prayer and) manifest example, there would be fewer drunkards* among the poor ; fewer homes wrecked, fewer souls lost, under our very eyes. Next Sunday, therefore, you will be exhorted to associate yourselves in prayer, and in the exercise of all the. influence you can command, both by word and by exanWe, to repress an evil, which, partly from ovemree' social habits, partly from an unguarded custom, has been growing even in the upper classes ; and still more, from our inconsiderate commercial legislation, has covered the three kingdoms to such an extent with the temptations and occasions of excess, as to threaten to undermine the domestic life and tbe morality of tbe people. The meeting of the 24th is for the purpose of uniting all claases. in this common effort against our common danger. W-e therefore earnestly invite you, dear children, of all grades, and classes of society to attend it. Tickets will be dis-' tributed to you by tbe clergy, specifying bojfch the time and the place of the meeting. Let no one think that he is beyond the reach of tb-s invitation. You are all bound by the vows of your baptism to temperance. Many by their own free will have chosen to abstain altogether from the use of intoxicating drink. They have chosen it as safer for themselves, and for many it is the only wuy of safely. Some, again, choose total abstinence that they may help others, by their example, hy thei' 1 prayers, by their self-denial, to overcome temptation. Many a mother, wife, and sister, who have never been guilty of the least excess, are now denjipg themselves that $hey may sustain the perseverance of fathers, husbands, and sons. Even little children have thus been the means of reclaiming souls from drunkenness.

A Nuw TiJJtOHY. — A new theory of earthquakes and volcanoes, which hat found favour with scientific men generally, lias been given by Mailer. It is based upon the conceded fact that the earth is gradually cooling, and a* it cools it contracts, but not uniformly. The interior contracts more rapidly than the crust, and Mailer believes that the shrinkage of the crust can explain air volcanic phenomena. As the result of the contraction of the earth irregularities of level were first produced in the far remote* nges ; then corrugation of mountain ranges and table lands and lastly local crusjiings down and dislocations, a process still going on. Heat being, as is r\ovr generally allowed, a form of motion, the work expended in bearing down the crust is transformed into heat. The surface of the earth may bo well compared to the shrivelled skin of an appel,' Earthqutke and volcanic eruptions are jjhe result of the subsidence and shrinkage of the earth's surface. The old theory that mountains were upheaved is nofceorreot.' The valley were sunk down. This volcanic forco has passed it* maximum, and is now growing' leas' as the earth parts with ts internal heat. ' <Tn