HOW NOT TO FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1308, 11 December 1911, Page 6

HOW NOT TO FIGHT

CAMPAIGN LEADERS REBUKED. SKUMOX BY -\i;Clll)KA(.(iN HAUI'KU. A stern rrbuke was administered last evening to thosn who havo been responsible in the recent, political and licensing Imltll! for the use (if ill-roiiMdrred terms and (|iicslioimblii mcllioils by Archdciicmi Jlnrpcr in .St. Peter's Aiigiicim Chiiruli last night. 'J'hr Ic-on which he soughl to teach was that I lien , was much need in the world to-dn.v of CliriM. as a n-train-iiig force. Ho jirefaced his adilivss with the jiassagd from Ucvrlntions: "Tim kingdoms of tho world am liocomc the Kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign for ever nn.l ever."

"I don't want In express nit opinion in any way whatever as to tlic merits of the position of cither party in polities. I don't wish in any degree to touch upon the different aims of the different parties and tlio different politicians, but 1 do mint to refer fti the methods adopted in si-eking after those aims. I don't think this too much to say, that in funeral lmlitics one stands aghast in a Christian country at the langimgo ami the methods used, at the bitterness, at tho malice, at the personal slander, at the Imrc-faced mitniths-i'or both sides cannot bo true I rineiples nro forgotten, ami men are louglit. What a man stands for does not seem so important to many as sonicthing which can ).e. raked ~p; whether the something is true or not does not enter into the question, so long as malice and slander can bo brought ~,to p j aj .. O f course it mav ho Ea.cl that these men and women don't claim to act in Christ's name. They are avowedly trying to catch votes. Many of them repudiate Jesus Christ, and perhaps one ought not to complain that such methods are used by them when they have no standard other than a dc«iro to ( capture votes. ''But when oiio conies to consider another question that has stirred this conntry to Us foiimlations-I iiimii the local option qucstion-the position is different for here the name of Christ is used Here His service is avowed, and the- extension, ot His kingdom is put forward as the fi& Wl Y h ,S W°™ those who aro merits of the question entire!v alone 1 want to deal with the methods u=ed because if seems to me a very verv ser ions condition of things has arisen .There" •re two parties, one party avowedly fight" nig for their interests. Thcv are the f».-y who e!aim that the trade in wh tlie\ are concerned is ,i Icilinnle ,„, honourable trade. That is b" r chh and (hey. fight for it, but tho me hods i&E are t0 % i-Tman a^^itextd bc n n f i s " 10 otllt ' r s,(O , and I am not speaking of the voter but of H>» eader and the fighter. A d the rea on° :-e v invo s 7:',r Mi(at r.--i e «* ic n-nve malice and bitterness we line „ National Prohibition he described « ehidToVtr , " 1 ' ,, - , '/ ,11 ' 1 exX.A M C^leH^

Inst .year s census returns and wo fin'l that there has been for the first time a remarkable merenso in the number of tliqso who note themselves down -><. '\» religion or 'Object to state.' Have the two facts any connection with each other:- Is ,t an , lnfair j n f Pr( , nco the name of Jesus Christ is being m do abhorrent to many-that pure, that oh name, and that loving free service and roligwn-becausß it h as becra draped in the dirt ami besmirched with intolerance, malice, hatred, unfaithfulness and ChristianiS" "' th ° StKCt this is j