INDIAN BELIEF FUND.
TO TM BDITOS o*| THB LTXXBMOIT TIKBB. Si*,—'Allow me,a*a contributor to the Indian relief food, tjo protest against therein* gloriousstylelnwhioh thesuooe*s r of Ite undertaking is to be announoedto the Mayor of London* We may feel proud, and perhaps with some reason, that wooensendsuShiub* 1 ■Uidtiai help forthe relief miis)ry g«*ter than hardly be oohoeired, but surelynothing caul justify' ns in making a pande.-ot.onr liberality by boastfully bon* (resting it with our population, and with what may be expected to be obtained from the remainder of the Ooloriy. Booh a coarse lain dlreot deflanoe of good taste and of the principles of that philosophy which teaches the true meaning of charity—that charity which ▼aunteth not itself and is not puffed up.
. And, again, why ar* the name* of tub* eoriber* to tba fond of the eum of £1 and upward! to bo publiched, to the ezoluiion of tboto who** moan* probably would not allow th»m toglvemore, but whole gift ha* pro. bably been more in accordance with their mean* than that of many other* who hare contributed more largely. Why pabliah the name* at all P There may not be mnoh faolt to And with each;a proceeding where the objeet i* of »me each character aaateatlmenial to a deaerviog oilman about to leave aa, but, where the object ie one of pare charity, let a* not know who he* given and who ha* not, who ha* glffn thin or who that, that oar left hand' magnet-be-reminded of what our right hand kae done.—l am, &u. Nov 18. , ; qpNIBIBPIOB.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5228, 21 November 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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261INDIAN BELIEF FUND. Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5228, 21 November 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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