Poetry Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879.
It will be seen by our telegraphic columns, that on the return of Mr. Goldie for City West, for the General Assembly, the denoininationalists have met with signal defeat, and the secularlists have obtained a victory by 776 votes against 261. It was all block voting. Few cared to consider the especial fitness of the candidates for legislative work. It was Roman Catholics against Protestants, aud Protestants against the Roman Catholics. The opposition on either side was very bitter, and was no credit to the intelligence of the age m which we live. Denominationalism, whether it be right or wrong, is doomed. No movement, however strenuous, and however well concerted, will, it is to be devoutly hoped, ever bring it back again. It will be remembered with things of the past, •which were discarded when the errors permeating and surrounding them were discovered. The ministeis of each particular religion must instruct the children of their flocks m their own peculiar tenents, instead of leaving the cure of young souls to schoolmasters, who may be atheist, deist, Unitarian, or anything else m concealed belief. Rending, writing, arithemetic, geography, elementary science, grammar, and the " ologies," must be kept distinct from religion, which should be made to stand on a base of its own. Secular education may be wrong, but the world does not believe m it, and will not have it. If it be wrong, the error will be discovered hereafter, but not now. These party fights of Secularism, versus Denominationalism will die .out, when the schoolmaster has done his work and the minister and priest have done their work. Objurgations, denunciations, damnatoiy threatenings, are all of no avail. As well get up a new Crusade as attempt to keep down the spread of intelligence, and the right of every man to think for himself, or to think as his fathers aforetime have thought for him.
A.M. P.M. MARCH. Wednesday 5 ... 1.38 ... 2.30 Thursday ... 6 ... 3.21 ... 4. 3 Friday ... 7 ... 4.39 ... 5. 8 Saturday ... 8 ... 5.32 ... 5.55 Sunday ... 9 ... 6.17 ... 6.37
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 642, 5 March 1879, Page 2
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356Poetry Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 642, 5 March 1879, Page 2
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