THE WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XII, Issue 827, 1 June 1855, Page 3

THE WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY.

To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — The above individual was called upon to deny having issued, orhaving printed, or having concocted, the moral yellow extra, he does not and dare not deny ; he know& he is guilty, and with silence ; gives consent to the judgment passed upon him. I wish the religious body every congratulation in having connected with them an issuer, or printer, or concocter (probably embodying all these in himself) of ribald placards. I think he could not " teach the young idea" a more practical moral lesson of what to avoid, than by posting one of his placards on the wall of the school at which" he^resides, and saying to the assembled scholars— pointing to the document — " my young friends, in a moment of bitter enmity, forgetting the Christian precept, " do unto others as you would be done by," forgetting the command, " thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour,." forgetting all that was manly and upright and honourable, and giving vent to my malice and hatred, and being uncharitable exceedingly, I aided and abetted, and became by act and part a traducer of other men's fair fame; there hangs the "fiy sheet." He should then further go on to say — "feeling I am an unworthy example before you, that until more Christian feelings actuate me I may contaminate the innocence by which I am here surrounded ; having no past life of an unblemished nature to appeal to, and finding that my reformation is not the reformation of the inward feelings of the man, but a mere outwaid show of observance, I point myself out as a melancholy example of what you ought to avoid imitating, and withdraw myself from among you ; my further connection with you, my innocent children , might only cause your parents to seek for your instruction proceeding from a purer source, and my presence here might only render odious the Body, one of whose mouthpieces I am publicly known to be, — to use the language proceeding this day from (that very questionable source) the 'New -Zealander,' "the most bountiful charity cannot "always place implicit faith in the sincerity of conver- • 'sions when they happen to be (as mine was) at the "same t\m& convenient as well as suddtn," and such being unfortunately too true as respects myself there 'can be no doubt of the propriety of my withdrawing myself from presiding over you." At this stage of the proceedings my reader might possibly delude himself into the belief that he saw the Sunday Teacher retiring with outward meekness and lowliness from the scene, while inwardly gloating over and hugging to his bosom his endeared "pestilential yellow." Cut I think my reader would be deluding himself as I have no doubt the Presider over Sunday Schools can dictate such terms to the Body he is connected with, as not only cause them to continue their patronage -owards him, but make them swallow the unclean sheet into the bargain. Yours, &c\, "No Hypociusy."

To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — The 'New-Zeal ander party and all their crew are, just now, those in whom a large amount of pity is a charitable outlay, — neither they nor their jaundiced views are the older of the day, and all their wild lashings and lawings only shew that they are as silly as they are a sorry set ; they professed themselves eager for an opportunity to show' their little might— pity them they had it, and " We viewed them o'er at break of day, But lo ! by sunset, where were they ?" They had better now recede vv ith the little grace that is left them than Vender themselves ridiculous by trying to defy the authority of the better man of the two in the fight. It iR my advice to them to bow the knee, cat the leek, and it they don't like it, let thoni bjlt it. I am, Sir, Theirs and yours, ALritA May 29, 1565.