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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 128, 8 June 1885, Page 2

Mr Charles Bright delivered his socond locturo in tho Opera Houso last night, the subject being "V.M.C. 'A.B.C or Milk for Babes." It was a review of a recent address by tho Rev. J, S. Hill to the young mon of tho Young Men's Christian Association, in the course of which the rev. gentleman oxpressed regret that the young men hero had not had the privilege which a neighbouring colony availed herself of, viz , of lighting in the Soudan for Queen and country. The lecturer went on to character ise the Soudan campaign as one of tho most hideously immoral wars that England had ever undertaken—a war of which Mr Gladstone himsolf had said little loss than a year ago that an attempt to subduo the Soudan would be to put down a people rightly (struggling to be freo. Mr Bright wont en to compare Chas. Bradlaugh's repeated and powerful denunciations of war with the general support given it by ministers of the Gospel. He also alleged that members of Young Men's Christian Associations were carefully spoon-fed by the parsons with religious pap, and that ns a consequent they were devoid of intellectual backbone. After a reference to the significant absence of the clerical element from the ceremony connected with the laying of tho foundation stone of tho Free Library and Art Gallery, Mr Bright sought to show that both the priesthood and their Christianity woro rapidly losing their hold upon the masses. The classes for shorthand in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association will bo commenced on Wodnosday next. Tho classes are free to all members of the Association. Young men desirous of joining the class should leave their names at the rooms. Drunken Stoff.-How many children and bZr k m cJ l 0S y "* B? r,ly d's?°r ra'her Doing killed, by excessive dcc-orir_ or the dally use of some dr. . or drunkrnsicfT c : V medicine, that no one knows what it ij ~■,_.,_. „-' ColZWi Tf d. ", ,Xl'ftvud by A merle",; U>.B Hon Bittors, which Is so pur*. eintDle and te:? 88 lbat _¥ c mo3t '«»« won an. weakMtinvalid or smallest child can trust in It See