WHITE CROSS SOCIETY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4082, 12 October 1885, Page 3

WHITE CROSS SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR. Your Übu© of Saturday cmtaina a letter signed "0.A.M." advocating the organisation of a branch in Oamaru. The object doubtless is a good on , but the question arises, " Can the means at pro Bont proposed to bo employed accomplish it or even approach tho desired end?" The pledne as " 0.A.M." gives it is, in my opinion, not sufficiently comprelier. sire, and I would therefore suggest the addition of, "To keep my hands from picking and stealing, my tongue from evil speaking, lyinsj, and slandering." Add to this a few pnsßagcs from the Litany, and, by way of epice, ft few carefully selected portions of the Athanasian Creed, which could be very well spared from that remarkable relic of a bygono age of terror. This done, social purity might very well be left to take care of itself. To be serious, Sir, where is tho need for any such inquisitc rial society 1 ere? If it be required for the creation, or rather the development of a few more Pharisees " in our midst," I feel assured it would be eminently Bucceaaful ; but I take the liberty of believing that a man or woman who Is incapabio of self control without tho aid of an association of kindred weaklings Would find that very association a danger in itaelf bo obvious that it is needless to reduce it into plain langunfje. Like the legislation of the colony, Christianity, so called, in Oamaru appears to mo to be ridden to death, and to have run hopelessly mad, I may have more to say on this suVject shortly, and I ■ay now that unices society puts a check upon sham piety, and the shoddy moral purity of the White CroBS forcing house, the rising generation will degenerate into a set of puritanical prigs. H.O.M.

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