AN ASTOUNDING CIRCULAR.

NZ Truth, Issue 276, 8 October 1910, Page 8

AN ASTOUNDING CIRCULAR.

.» . . . — Judging by the circulars issued heralding the Anglican mission from .Bull's tight little island, the missioners regard this country as an uncivilised part of the globe, peopled by individuals of low intelligence, and without refinement, who must be addressed m language suitable to their condition. "Are you a leper or a jlunatic ?" yells the circular. lt Have a good wash," it pursues, insultingly—"inside and . outside. Your inside is choired with dirt and disease." Then the circular ties itself into a frantic knot of mixed metaphor. "Take regular exercise for your soul," it remarks, glibly ; "not like a rat down the sewage pipe of ' gutter ragsj etc." The last remark is as clear as mud. The.mi ssionaries are described as extremely high church, and one would expect some dignity and choice expressions from persons of that description, but the vulgar circular beats even the Yanfcee traytrapping psalm grinders, who vend theology at about Is llfd a yard, and speak of the deity as a personal; pal. The missioners' have evidently' been advised to unbend m the blawsted kawlonies, and to be colloquial and discursive and to speak to the brutes ra language that they can understand. It is very humiliating -.forNew Zealanders.