CHARITABLE BAZAARS.

Southland Times, Issue 3298, 15 January 1879, Page 3

CHARITABLE BAZAARS.

- .Editor Tmes,-^ do.no) like an insult, more especially as'j|have.jS:eceivedlao' little of that sort of thing daring my iong : . sojourn here, that I do n>t know how to y treat _fit. ■I) consider) ii m insult, and Ti shall' teach- that such a transaction ought' to be considered one, jhat after I had made due and had advertised a "bazaar -"for- a""blaritable purpose, another society should immediately adver 7 tise a second bazaar, /when they hay% nothing to put off au'd everything to begin, without first having some communication with us, so, as tagive !jis;-the- ohance of retiring or-, comingito*- 'any* "fair understanding. I object to rudeness in everything, and this- has the appearance of an endeavor to' force "a clergyman to retire without the usual civilities by a*party which makes, use of tlie cry of a more popular and benevolent object. There -is a touch of the ludicrous abo'nt the reference to my vestry. I hope the outside public will not form its code of honor upon its knowledge of our church rules, but as a little -gossip may interest them, I will state that at our last meeting, when -the fact of our 1 bazaar' "being about to take place was_ mentioned, one and all, clergy and laity, agreed that bazaars were objectionable unci unpleasant features of the 'times. I have always felt that when we appear before the public to ask for assistance through the form of a bazaar^ we trust very much to .their charity and honor, and that the time may come when we cannpt.work through/this expedient. I am not quite sure that this time has yet arrived, but it looks very, near.. When the Benevolent Society was formed I ' was intending to propose that certain ministers should be on* the committee, but I was informed that this would be opposed,' and I, did not attend the rhe.eting. I; may more and more retire from public associations', , but it .-will still, be, my business to teach that thei c should be something like honor in everything.— Yours, &c, W. P. Tanner.