SHORT HOURS AND FREE THOUGHT. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4741, 28 April 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

SHORT HOURS AND FREE THOUGHT. TO THE EDITOR.

TO THE EDITOR.

: Sir—lt • appears • that -few_ ■. clergymen-; can • ] preach without alluding, to the Free: Thinkers.: This i3as it should be, They are; now a recog-. nised power .in this community.": Bishop Nevill attacks them, and now. see" under his Episcopal; control. Me Stanford accuses the'j "Free-fcliinking part of the community" as j beiug "strong enough to keep the shops open in their selfish indifference to' their neigbbufs'wrongs." :-I was not aware until I read the j extract from the sermon that the Free Thinkers' had so multiplied. .. It speaks much for iMr jßright's success that he has been able, notwithstanding these Eqiscopal, Free, Presbyterian, j the Methodist, &c. chiirches in Cuuedin, to I convert to Free. Thought the .majority of the Dunediri shopkeepers. I am glad, as one who1 took a part in Mcking'up Mr, Bra,dshaw, to' find that Mr' Stanford Js" opposed to'the long' hour-system; I only regret that "when, by leading articles-in yourtjournal, theiefforts bf thosesupporting: the. Act to restrict the . hours of: female-labour were pooii-poohed,: Mr. Stanford .didiiot.'Eecond the endeavours,of the supporters of;Mr,.Bra<jßhaw's AqW: If h,e -vviUnowinaugu-', ; rate a short hour movement,11. believe that he will find; as rmany. Free Thinkers as^'.'Ep'isco-' pdlianß' aiding.'.him in such a mission. To accusb'Free Thinkers of selfishness is "only 'following his bishop, and' hence his sermon is excusable.—lam, &c.y;;. •"■:''- ; ;"■•■.; ;■■ >.;:>;•.■■■■

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