Beelzebub Getting it Hot

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 179, 7 August 1888, Page 2

Beelzebub Getting it Hot

Tits last number of the War Cry to hand launches out on the subject of the la e Gisborne developments. We cannot publish the whole of the article or we might be oast in “ durance vile,” but here is the main portion" Gisborne bids fair to beoome a second Torquay. Not satisfied with sending Major Lovelock and his three comrades to gaol for twenty-four hours, the police have since taken twenty-one more names, presumably with a view of doing some more summonsing business. We are anxiously awaiting further intelligence. Gisborne is a township of a little over 2,000 inhabitants, the streets thereof are wide and the traffic limited. Owing to the excessive heat, the inhabitants are decidedly lethargic in their movements. In the summer-time our friends the Maoris, obstruct the side-walks and the grassy spots at the side of the road, right under the eye of the law, and yet never has it been recorded that any of our dusty brethren have been told to “ Move on 1’ Taking these facta into consideration and also bearing in mind that the police authorities have always done their best to help and protect us in ovary way, we are compelled to dig underneath the surface to find the motive for these petty persecutions History repeats itself. Eighteen hundred years ago the cry was—" Away with this man and release unto us Barabbas. Now Bar. abbas was a murderer ” and to-day in this enlightened (?) nineteenth century, continually we hear the cry, " Away with this Salvation Army, crush them out, do anything to Stop them, only let the public-houses, and dancing saloons, and skating rinks, under the guidance and direction of Beelzebub, go ahead full swing, and entice and allure thousands Upon thousands of poor sin-blighted souls, until finally they have their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone. And shall we stop? No—never I Wo are on the rescue business, and in spite of all hell, we never will give in. Lot everyone pray for our Gisborne comrades that they may have heavenly wisdom given them iu this contest. The result is certain I Victory through the blood I