GAOL,HOSPITAL, &a CHAPLAINCY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1690, 31 May 1867, Page 4

GAOL,HOSPITAL, &a CHAPLAINCY.

(To the Editor of flw Qtago Dajjly TrME&J Sm—Frojiayoui: report o! tlio debate m. the Council on religious ordinances tat? the Gaol, Hospital, &c., I see that some*members were sadly scandalized at Urniinfrequenifc vjsitation, of these Inatitn.- ------> tioM % tjie Pxtfcestaat ministers; I venture to s% that their astpmshntCAit waa mic&Hed f<fr, Pi-ewous to kh& -apj>«intinent ot a gaol missionary^ ,1 risifcei thet pwsaia' oj^oe a-week to hold -a' short «ervica* ajid gave two hours of "my fsandays to the Hospital, besides week-<jiijy vkita a«d fiuica.'aiß, &nd I still visitMtiose institiitiotis ioen nay ser^igea aa^ requiredL Bufciyith. ia; miasionar^r^"wlioae yom it ia to supply tlie t^ligibiiß p£ theiir inmates, I^^eonsider^^^tbat da%!i^i«3^asthet j&eai or <«mv<siuence; of tib^ City clergy prompted, b^ anythjj% bui a kindness m\s& benefit I wcai^or^chat reply Messrs iJuMa, iDriverf & direct their servantid ggtsaM the mmisterß. ytko yf&m fttten^ance, eager to religiously adtftoMsh, exhort^ Btnict thetdu "Our prisoiiera and sick people igx nct^sglfljfed -iji«fe[ wntoroi

to promise, on belwlf of our Protestant clergy, tlmt when they cease to mmmiv? to them by their depute, they will #tdly do so in person, Pray urge our statesmen to inform tlieniselves before they tmdertake to publicly reprove their aquafe—lam, &«.,' 7). II Bruxur.