A THREEPENNY BIT.
TO THE EDITOR. . Sib, Comfortably and handsomelyattired men and women attend our Cathedral, church and meeting-houses. They enjoy the painted windows, the music, the social occasion, the ; historic ritual, the moral and mental force, or whatever attraction may have drawn them thither ; and they put in the offertory—threepence 1 They cannot feel themselves generous; do they suppose they are Jv.sfc'P ' Do they, for instance, think ic right to take the.ideas of a brave and eloquent speaker, to enrich themselves with the foremost thought of our 1 time, and then give the smallest morsel of silver in their parses towards the cause of conscience ?—l am, &c., W.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10706, 16 July 1895, Page 2
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110A THREEPENNY BIT. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10706, 16 July 1895, Page 2
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