A GRAVE CHARGE.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 277, 28 May 1907, Page 4

A GRAVE CHARGE.

SENSATIONAL PULPIT UTTERANCE. TREACHER LOSES HIS FAITH During the course of a sermon on foreign missions on Sunday morning at the Wesley Church, Taranaki street, Mr A. Beeson, a visitor from America, made a very candid and sensational statement, reflecting seriously on the morality of Wellington. Mr Beeson had given several arguments in support of his contention that it was our bounden duty to go forth, according to the Bible in j une tion, and preach the Gospel to every creature, and had traced the rise and progress and the issue of Christian missions, when he made a startling digression. "I have seen death," he said, "in many hideous and gruesome forms, but I bave seen by far the saddest and most heartrending spectacle I ever saw in Wellington. I hare been present when the breath left the body of one of your fairest daughters — one who was the victim of the most inhuman, brutal and cowardly crime. This sounds like sensation. It is not sensation, but the truth. ' I went ii' search of a public conscience to condemn this crime. ' I could not find it. Only in the heart of one man I found it — the heart of a man \ou all know and love, and whom you nave honoured by making; great. Tho brute who has left death in his train, wrecked chastity, and destroyed the sanctity of he mee, is in the service of the New Zealand Government." "I say this to you," continued Mr Beeson, "because you New Zealanders have talked glibly of the neces sity of sending missionaries to New York. I know New York, aud I say that that aspersion is uncalled for. What I have seen and heard here in Wellington has been most terrible. I was unnerved by it, and desolated. M> very faith went, and it has not come back to me yet, although I stand here and try to preach to you to-day. You havo been told that you are indifferent towards the plague. I say that vou are indifferent and suffering from inertia in the fpco of a plapno mor^ ter-ib_o that is in your midst. Tho Christian conscience in Wellington and in Now Zahuid needs roiling. It must assert itsolf. It h not as if crimo could not be rooteti out hero. The country is small, and, if tho public conscience demanded it, you could uproot every vestige of crimo." Mr Beeson went on to express the opinion that visitors to New Zealand who, on leaving the State, bestowed indiscriminate praise upon it, were not only^ wrong in so doing, but ab sr-lutely immoral. He insisted that this count -'s regeneration, in view of our geographical isolation, mast o<n_e, from within. — New Zealand Times: *\«>'><is : (ip-it fvpp«'rmint Cure for (W.'.'i- ■■•■: : - « ' • "• •■■■'- »:»:!- UKd i_-\ti_-A_ND v. GERMANY." It is the Piano that has made this generation the most musical that has ever lived. Up to the present the German instrument has held sway but owing to the alteration in the tariff in the colony, you can now {>lace in your home, a Sterling Engish Piano at a price that defies German competition. Some idea of the popularity of the English Piano may be gained from the fact that the Spencer Piano Co., one of the foremost English makers, have sold over three thousand of these instruments in New Zealand. The makers estimate that there are over fifty thousand of their instruments in use at the present time, of which fifty have been supplied to different ships of his Majesty's Navy. The prioe of these instruments puts them within the reach of all, as they oan be delivered free to your door from £42 10s, or 22s 6d a month. All the Pianos are iron frame, f ull tricord. and have a patent cheek action, and in their model olass IB at £42 you have a fulness of tone that is not equalled by many of the so-called semi-Grands, costing £60 ot £70. The London and Berlin Piano Company, who are New Zealand agents for these celebrated instruments, have made Mr WUliam Carthew, Feilding, agent, and he has fuU power to grant liberal terms to purchasers. Mr Carthew has several Pianos in stock, and will be very pleased for anyone interested to call and inspect the English Spencer, and see what the celebrities in the musical world have to say 'about these world-renowned instrument-'. FERTILISERS THAT PAY. The world's best, " Fison's Ferti- I lisers," returns hundreds per cent, on its cost in increased yield tof grain, and in benefit to succeeding crop; also "Sterling" Superphosphate " Crescent " Bonedust, and "Scotia" Basic Slag, the most soluable. Hodder and Tolley, Ltd., Seedsmen, Feilding.