PURGING THE DEVIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 949, 13 November 1879, Page 2

PURGING THE DEVIL.

It seems that the gentlemen of the Fourth Estate in Christchurch I are about to be experimented upon by a section of the clergy. A meeting of evangelical ministers "took place there lately when it was unanimously resolved that — This meeting considers the time has arrived when serio.is steps should be taken in order to bring persons connected with the newspaper profession in Christchurch to a sense of the duties which they owe to their iejl-low-citizens in" a moral and religious*' sense ; and that a society for the conversion of journalists be formed in order that many wayward souls may be gathered into the kingdom. There were fifteen clergymen present and a wellknown divine occupied the chair. The reasons assigned by the promotors of this movement for their singular action in this matter are, according to their own showing very cogent ones. In the first place they state that they have good authority for asserting that the journalists of Christchurch are for the most part scoffers, mockers, and winebibbers, and in support of this assertion they point to a convivial club there, known as the Christchurch Mutual Imps. These jolly dog3, it seems, hold there bacchanalian festivals on Sabbath evenings, to the wonder of their goodly neighbours. The millenium is evidently at hand. — Mangiora Standard.