CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3964, 12 April 1883, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

" EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! TO

WILL."

( o the Editor),

Sir,—For good or for ill,character is always and everywhere common property, and in justice to the late Mr U. S. £llis, who caunot now speak for himself, you will, I trust, permit me to cay that he would have borne the " humiliation" of which you speak in your review of the above book #ith Spartan heroism, saying : ''I deserve it and much more." Well,he kne\y how base the drink will make a man, and*that when the will is truant the slave-wife, because a slave (we respect out equals, but not our inferiors), is powerless—notwithstanding all that is said - about'the good wife makiog tbe good husband—to bind him to home and duty, even when the wife and hornet ate all he can desire. And if he, who had gone co far astray, had not yet lived down all tbe vices of an ill-, formed character, still he had lived so bravely since he started on the better course that bis memory U honoured. . Falleo, indeed, must they be who can make "sp-irt," of tbe vices of another - vices which, for the children's sake, ought to be held in execration by everyone, an they will b<s when I women succeed so well in educating tbetnI selves as to give a pure muial tone to society. I Tbe book in question has suffered much > from the fact tbat its publisher was in London and its autUorinAuckland; someof its mott telling facts having been omitted, party from the conviction tbat its purpose would be best served by brevity, and partly to suit the couvcutic nalisiu of to-day. It only noedi deeper thought thm is usually giveu to a subject, to perceive that its title is well chosen, suggesting as lt.does that in spite of all opposition everything worthy ot achievement, is possible to will, even admitting that tbe will of the husband and tbe wife of which the book treats h laid waste, asiscleariyseen. Tbe will of the latter, though exceptionally' strong, is taciified, for the time being, to false teaching, i.e., unquestioning submission to tbe will, right or wrong, of the husband; added to which a strong will in woman ever was and still is reprobated, as Zee knew to her cost, and piactised submission accordingly. And the

will of the former, not oZ Jk-IT2** is sacrificed to his pasainn! * lea« sttoat, case, the will and CwillV UU. "Sh eoce, that the deliberated £ Ye !t **fc defiant of God and man,nfe^ 3' such in all the length and h« i^M' defiance. The man of i ,tS"?*'«B,' character is no mere ' W^-^4 stances." Even in his aba s ™ .C 1«*j: certain sooner "or later toffi? *•! " evil influences and become of wi^l^ vice to the world as to help men t^S they may grow into rtmoit^?, ftW of good or ill. Looking e,rlS be y*il and Us lesions, as one mniM,, 1 * ' have a practical value, and C ari n 7^W what is said, not ataU M to"hW f" try bo to read as to tormhrj m^H • U'l tially on an ever-widenlng field [s*?*&> turn regardless of any "shock.' I"*' prejudices. 1 know that crudfijlv,l*l^ tha earnest-heart»d no less S^ii than in Christ'sday. l he i™^ 4 date of the cive-lion, rhinoce™J" tOf «>« bones have been rtESg9^*^ Charing Cross, conld not .SenSSt'« conceivedof theLondonof thisiX lyM *o less certainly impSriSe ?uW dow to conceive what human IA ""s prove capable of when once itsßrS ' pant cave-lions, bears, & c - Ps ae,Bf»ia. ■ yielded to the rightfuuS a, 5?, l >* < wisely disciplined will. ffi IV tt« is God—and man i 8 Godlika n, • 5,^ portion to the strength of his5 eely ■» generality of men. ■ Tfc.?&ft £». its natnre and instincts Man-f most part, is so false to both th« r tte conceive of bis being ffi Ore %$ »^ nature is pure and good • try a» \wZ "*■' debase it, it will resist &?£%£« » and rob his coveted indulge^ls * mised sweets. Why wUI ni™ v it doesn't pay. WraffiTfe^paratively early death will proveTw 1; much more to those who ite LI- a? 4 leom-women especially I,™* »*»«