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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 203, 14 December 1876, Page 4

»■ J TREATMENT OF GIRLS. our many tmhappy girls have paid &y for the early bringing up of their yoong husbands, who, alter the first gtanour of love had passed, treated their wives as they were allowed to treat their iiaters, and as they saw their fathers treat their mothers—carelessly, disrespectfully, with a total want of that considerate tenderness which is worth all the passionate love in the world. Thus, though they may pass master outside as excellent never doing anything really bad, and possessing many good and attractive qualities, yet th»y contrive somchow to, quietly break the poor woman's heart, or hua:o it into that p-stive acceptance of pain which is more fatal to married happiness than even temporary estrangement. Anger itself is a safer thing than stolid, hopeless intliderence. Tha beat husbands I ever met came oat of afamil? where the mother, a most heroic and sdf-denyinsr woman laid down the absolute law, " Girts first," not in any authority, bit first to b» thought of as to protection and tenderness. Consequentfy the chivalrous care which these lads were taught to show to their own sisters naturally extended itself to all w»men. They grew up true gentlemen- -generous, unexacting, courteous of speech. and kind of heart. In them was the protecting strength of manhood, which scwrns to naj its strength except for protection—the proud honesty of manhood which infinity prefers being lovingly and openly resisted to being twisted round one's finger, as mean men are twisted—and mean women will always be found ready to do it; but which, 1 think, ail honest men, and brave women not merely dislike, but utterly despise. —Ymmtj Ladies' Journal. 0 A STRANGE STORY. An interesting story, in connection with the death of George Smith, the Asayriolois told in the late London papers. This gentleman died at Aleppo, on the 19th of August, at or about the hour of six in the afternoon. On the same day, and between three-quarters of an hottr and an horn* later a friend and fellow-worker of Mr. Smith's—D. Dclitzch—was going to the house of a third person, the author of the account of the labors of the departed scholar, which apprared in The Academy. In the course of his walk Dr. DeliUch passed within a stone's throw of the house in which Mr. Smith lived when in London, and suddenly heard his own name uttered aloud in a "most piercing cry," which thrilled him to the marrow. The fact impressed him so strongly, that he looked at his watch and noted the hour. Dr. Delitzch, who strongly disavows any superstitious leanings, was ashamed to mention the circumstance to Ids friend on reaching that gentleman's house, although on his return home he owns ttwl his nervous apprehensions of some mournful event in his own family found relief in tears, and he recorded all the facta in his note-book that same night. Pr, Delitzch told the story on the sth just,, it a friend's breakfast-table, with afl tile circumstances mentioned above, including the hour at which he heard the Shrill cry. He distinctly denied having twen thinking of Mr. Gsorgs Smith at the time. ♦ THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS. The Rev. J. J. Smalley, of Napier, was recently taken to task by the local Tthgraph for certain remarks relative to the Rresa made by him at a public meeting in Wellington. In reply, the rev. gentleman asserts that he wis misreported, and that what he did say was as follows: " The daily newspaper is a very powerful educator. The minister of religion finds in it valuable co-operation through the habits of reflection and observation which it induces in the community. It helps the tradesman to fortune, and the caterer for public amusement is impotent without it. The daily newspaper is one of the snivels of modern science and civilisation, and one of the greatest boons which a community can possess. Those who prepare the daily Press perform a vexatious and thankless task—ill-paid, and calculated to shorten life. The newspaper is ever ready to commend, often when it is not due, and when censure is deserved, performing the task with mildness and reluctance. It is therefore to be deplored that the secular newspaper is so often found in a position antagonistic to Christianity and churches. Editors seem in WKm mstances to regard ministers of region as thir natural enemies, and deem it. their mission to lose no opportunity of getting a fling at the pulpit. • They would probably make answer that on censors, not of Christianity, but of hypocrisy and cant; not of true preachers, but of men who have no qualify ncatiou or right to the sacred office. Be it ao* . . . And while we confess the 1 inestimable advantages of the Press, the University, and the School as sources of ' knowledge and instruction, we claim f supremacy for the Pulpit, an office HeavenI inspired and Heaven-sustained, and which lean never be sujieraeded or ignored, whose ■ mission it is to improve, instruct, and exhort, with genial love and steadfast courage; God himself has set it on the monarch, and it dare not abdicate its throne." The addition of the words in italics constitutes the chief correction of the report, and is certainty* an important qualifies-

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