A FEW QUERIES.

Southland Times, Issue 3315, 4 February 1879, Page 3

A FEW QUERIES.

' i n : *♦ ' Editor Times, —^Mr Stout deprecates religion in schools, remarking " That it led to bitterness and- strife in a' , community." "The aim of a community should be to to.live^in, concord and peace." It. is a '■ pityhe'does not'earry this beautiful doc tnne to its "logical end,"- for regarding •politics, -we find hin, in/tthe same.breath, saying, " He had no patience with the man < who neglected , It' should, be the accepted' duty of . every man to give free

ever many hV bfiend/and however distasteful it may be to the majority of the people ;-;:a^ong";;whom|;'h.e ; ..-d^elt...-''Theri6 i must be ifi^^ every^^cpuhtry two great political parties. He^ ask^d theiii 'to; chbse^ under which banner they \vbuld serve." Is " bitterness ; and strife " bad in school, but goo 4in parliajhent ? Is it bad 'id.: cohimunityj but good in politics ? Is it bad in religbn but good in law ? Is one man to be allowed to hoAvl; and whine, and disturb the "majority of his neighbors" oy^r his hobbieSj whilst Another is to live in "concord: and" peace " over his ? .'.;• Is |a ; drunkeu fellow tp>.be allowed the priyileg-e of making a -noise and disturbingeverypne, t whilethe law requires the sober man to b;e -quiet); and^inbffensive? Why) should yDr D.D, he fettered and bound to' keep: the; peace, while r? Dr'p]P is* insulting him, an<l: stealing his sleep, and his trade ? Is trie politician to have a privilege which must not be accorded to the Doptor; of Divinity:? May/the-.p' bli'tipia'n stir up 'strife in a community, set 'das?" against class, man against man, "the son"agairist the father,: and the husband against the, \vife .of - his bosom," while the '-religionist js not allowed to. j do the same? Perha^.;'Mr-Stput;-v^'ll;-'faybr us -with a "lbgical/V PP.i D ibn ; on; ,the;case , thug stated ■when-he^jeturhs. : 7^burs^.<^4 :

A Sober Man!