TRACTS FOR THE TIMES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 62, 27 November 1858, Page 6

TRACTS FOR THE TIMES.

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; : earnest thou?-— "I came forth fol^^ii\ie]^^ekt: thoa ?-rr^l: seelt ah ' en^ '('■ : ii --^^^re)w|f^^oit^d^4n^-{times .-past ?-^

by educational-twist, by custom and V by precedent, by routine, by dunc^doni, J&nd by hatred -pf-change ; because tlfeydis^hto the- loud' cries, oft ignorance'and dark-_ jiesY, /and to. the shriekings of bigotry, of superstition of prejudice and of fear."

What is thy. mission ?— "To teach, to inform, to enlighten, to detect, to give knowledge, to strengthen, to cheer, to to uphold, to settle firmly, to incite; and lead enquiry, to cause reflections to humanise, to make godlike, to free." /

! Dost thou think to succeed -?-<— "Yes : I am but one but I. am all-powerful and immortal, the gift of. Him who sent me. The physical barriers of the universe are mighty ?— the .moral ones are mightier far— amd time seems long to the sons of men, but all are as nought tome. I never tire nor rest ; I work every where ; when crushed to earth in one place, I bide my time there, meanwhile I rise anew in another." .; H;jst thou at present any followers ? — "I have many — scattered all over the globe ; among all peoples, all tribes, all languages, all nationalities, all classes. But chiefly in Britain and her numerous colonies, and in America, are my more advanced followers to be found. I have also very many rising ones in Italy in France in Germany and other places, which another short age will more fully develape." Have not thy chief disciples, been always considered disturbers ? — "lnvariably so. We fare alike : the disciple is not greater than his master ; in past ages they" were always hunted to death ; and even now 'The man who shows his heart, Is hooted for bis nudities and scorned ?' "

Why is this? — "Because. my followers are always in advance of the age in which their lotis cast. This is proved, from the next generation raising monuments to the memory of those whom their fathers either murdered or suffered to die through cold neglect and want."

If then thy past chief ones have heen so ill-used, and so very few among thy present followers escape ridicule coldness and persecution ; — what reward hast thou to give them? — "The best the highest. the most glorious : to use rightly their reason, the greatest gift to them of the Eternal, Hence they learn truly to know themselves.; and, while they learn mentally to soar above all bounds and space, they become as humble as little children at their knowing so little ; learn to despise pelf and honour and worldly glitter ; and rejoice beyond expression at the new world of mind and freedom on which they have entered, and which ever remains with them ever comforting and strengthening them."

Since thou sayest, that thou teachest every where, perhaps thou doest so in every matter and tiling ? — "I do : such is my mission. I work alike in science and in art, in physics and in morals, in religion and in politics, in the minor events of the fleeting hour and in the hugest ones of the slow -revolving age, in the hamlet's path and in the path of comets, in the first prattling of an infant's mind and in the deepest conclusions of the wisest of sages. I taught both my New-Zealand child how to make a flaxen fishing line and my British son how to form the electric band which now girdles the globe. lam naturally opposed to all secret conclaves, whether of the inquisition or the star-chamber, or vestries, or the 'closed doors' of petty colonial oligarchies. I abominate all humbug and moonshine and tinsel and ostentation and alt vamped up externals. 1 dissect and shew the inner core and heart of things. I hate all insincerity,, and have ever borne testimony against it ; I did~so 3000 years ago by the old Gfe;efe poet* saying,-^- ;: 'Who dares think one thing and another teU^l My soul detests him as the gates of hell. I *— -»J? I inspired the British heart with love ot freedom, liberty of the press, and of open trial by jury, arid to stick to 'alt faif above bo*ard' : lam wholly against such teaching as 'all 'fair ia love war and politics. 1 I counselled , the sons of men in ancient daysr, by the wisest of their race, tQ^buy the truth and sell it not' ; and 200$ years agoj^y doctrine was .openly and; daily taught : fey the ■Founder ' ql Christianity to the men women children of Judgai;** ■■■■ ! ' ' '■. ■ - .-. •'•■:.'• .;■■" '-.:& : :p-iffity^xm£%

i O ! mighty truth, ifcojtt tnnst $&v shaltj 'prevail* Goon: worlfc £ne%Mse } operate^ labour ;~thoi* hjist i^ncKlwdo here in Newr Z&tUijd — in Afaunni and thoa wilt also find^reat opposition, brother electoxa ?— "He" is tlie fceenpm vfeom tlje in^OTAfees'fijae, And #11 awMrtareß be»dc"'--w tt'jj. Co&jpftso.

To the Editor af the Huwke's Bay Herald,

Dear Sir^As usual, another batch of 4 issues 'of your paper has come. ; to hand. -Complaints of^'no news" for a month past" :is> almost general on the Plains, and each like myself, endeavouring to solve the mystery of postal communication in these parts.

If I received all my papers, however old they may be, I should not have other reasons but delay to complain of; but so many miscarry that I am at a loss to account for it. I have already twice obtained back numbers from you in order to keep my file correct, and now I have to apply for no less than eight other numbers, viz., 30, 31, 34, 48, 51, 52, 54, 56— thus being obliged to pay you seven or eight shillings a year more for your paper than I ougiit to.

Do not imagine I attach any blame to you, for Ikno.v that it is a source of great annoyance to you, but how is it that from time to time I and others receive our papers in 3's and 4's, when a mail is supposed to visit Napier fortnightly. We may certainly congratulate ourselves, on the success of the separation movement, for now we may reasonably suppose no one man will be allowed to conduct our inland mail service just as he> pleases. 1 am, dear Sir, Yours very truly, *\J. Tiffex. Ruataniwha, ■" \ Nov. 20, 1858.