THE MARTYR TOOTH.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 750, 7 April 1877, Page 3

THE MARTYR TOOTH.

Thb London writer of Anchovies and toast in the Auckland "Star" gives the following account of the doings of tbi ß ecclesiastical wolf in sheeps clothing :

"As the Eastern crisis divides and distracts the polotioal mind, to the social ecclesiastical mind is distraught with what I may call the "Eastward crisis." Whilst one side, ohiefly composed of silly . women and witless men, are sympathising with the " Martyr Tooth" and bis follies the strong minded are more than ever repelled from a religion which can uphold or tolerate Buch nonsense, and so the Established Churches is daily weakened. The Ritualists howling for disestablishment. . The beggars want to stick to the loaves and fishes, but get rid of the obligations with which they are bound up. If Tooth and Co. were to resign their livings, and strike out a new line on their 'own hook, they might elicit genuine sympathy and admiration. But here are men who will sacrifice nothing except their solemn oaths, by which they are bound to recognise the Queen's supremacy and who wish to restore in England a Church after the model of that of Rome before the Reformation. That is the whole story in plain English, and the plain English nation won't stand it. If Tooth and his partisans were at all brilliant or clever fellows we might think something of their ideas, and, perhaps, suspeot .that they might be nearer the truth than we, but unfortunately for such a theory we find that the clever fellows of the advanced High Sch'ol have all gone over to the Church, which evidently, to them, gave out a sweet smelling savour. It is only the nincompoops of the. party who hang to the Establishment. It seems on inquiry, for int-tauce, that although looth did certainly take his idegree in Cambridge, he only did it by the skin of his teeth, and was classed among those who narrowly escaped pluck- | ing. And this is the kind of fellow that is to set himself up against the grandest men that England's Church has yet produced. Really, if it were not that people seem madder every year, and will run after any folly that turns up—witness the Spiritualists—it would be surprising that anyone'out of Han well could be found to support such stupid fools. I believe Tooth is bi other to the great meat-extract-man in Australia, and it is rumoured that when he gets out of " chokee," as it is supposed he will do so soon by the Queen's clemency, he will make tracks for the Antipodes, and flaunt <his 'petticoats, burn his candles, and /smudge his incense under your noses. I wish you joy of him. He will, at all events, find tallow candles cheap, and there must be a large consumption of them in his style of Divine worship. The English Church Union, a mischievous sooiety, is doing its utmost to get up a sympathy for the Hatcham martyrs. ,;." Punch," as usual in the right, gives the association a sharp dig : UNION INDEED I English Churoh Union ! For a style More fit in vain might satire search : It's members working all the while To disunite the English Church.