THE “TABLET ” ON MR GREEN.
“ To bo sure Mr Green is true to the tradititions of the Tabernacle. The Taberaclo has stuck to him and he is right to stick to it. Ho must “ go for" “ priestcraft,” whether soaring in the pulpit or in Parliament—Heaven save the mark! , What comical folks the colonial lottery sands to the surface. You can hardly turn round without seeing whole companies that it toek Dickens years to discover and explore in the depths of London. But wo should like to know what else than a feeble attempt to. “ priestcraft” ever made Mr Green’s fortunes. Meantime wo think it highly probable ho is not half so bad as ho “ lets on" to be. Ho is a bigot by profession, and could not
at all afford to be anything else—just as other members we could name are Liberals by profession; and must collapse, at once if they were anything ■ else.-;'Mr Green must always keep “•beside' him a bladder full of the atmosphere on the Bethel, and pull it out now and then. The Sairey Gamps of piety would be lost to him for ever if he did hot. ‘ T
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2874, 10 June 1882, Page 2
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193THE “TABLET ” ON MR GREEN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2874, 10 June 1882, Page 2
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