SENTIMENT V. WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6820, 26 September 1883, Page 6

SENTIMENT V. WORK

TO THE EDITOK. ~ . | j Sir, —If Mrs.. Ellis and ladies .who 1 like her would only come down from to® I pedestal of sentimental impossibility to f level of everyday life it would be fafl "use to suffering humanity. They suppose" I desire an improbable state of things i ac.d results are that nothing is done. opponents of the C. D. Act and to all pM 2 " of human misery here are apparently cciu®- = tc, satisfy their consciences with talk , ; writing "high falutin" letters!: .-® 18 .-J I lowing appears in the London papers a , August the sth amongst the : intelligence:—"Lord Churchill called W ; attention of Lord Hartington to the seriO® ; increase of diseases in various seaport tow" ! since the temporary suspension of the p» r | sions of the C. D. Act. Lord Hartingt® fc, admitted the correctness of the statemew j and stated that the Government" would co sider the position of matters. Lord Chnroni 5 replied in terms more emphatic than P° !; S and asked if our soldiers and sailors wer® „ ; be allowed to die like dogs,".&o. . Now, is.' , this state of things our Christian _ frien - wish to aid? A little more putting % shoulder to the wheel, and a little less 1: | gious fanaticism, is wanted. _We mast ta» | frail humanity as we find it; any o» . y reasoning is fallacious. When we see PffP | who write so much in opposition to tn- a... who have the moral conrage tohMOles | subjects with a good intent, doiug ft , practical or useful, we may begin to hop® p ■ their sincerity to do something else bes g talk.—Yours, ' CoNSISTE"*-