A MODEL BAZAAR.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVIII, Issue 1654, 8 November 1862, Page 3

A MODEL BAZAAR.

Our advertising columns contain a notification, that on the evenings of the 18th and 19th instant, a bazaai will bo held in the Odd Fellows' Hall, at which the goodn will be offered for sale at fair prices. " Raffles and lotteries will not be permitted." These are great innovations on established bazaar usages, but, inasmuch as the object is intimately connected with the anise of religion, we are glad to see that this course has been resolved upon. In purely secular matteis, where money is wanted, and there is a general disposition in favour of a bazaar, little can be said against well-known coutiivances for obtaining funds. But when the object is for the promotion of religion, it becomes a totally different matter. The members of the High-street Independent Church have set an example, in this respect, which will be gencially followed, we have little doubt, if their bazaar prove successful. Seeiug that the object is worthy, we hope it may be successful. At any rate they deserve to succeed, if only fioin the fact that they have been the first publicly to test whether or not a bazaar, to meet the ends m view, may be conducted on something approaching the matter of-fact simplicity of genuine puritamsm. The goods are supplied by the ladies of the chinch and congretiou, many of whom have spent months of labour upon their mauufactiue The proceeds of the bazaar are to be appropriated to tho liquidation of the debt lemaming on the church. A band is advertised to be in attendance.