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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 294, 14 August 1860, Page 3

Man and Woman. —'When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers ? hath no man condemned thee ? She said, No man', Lord. And Jesus said unto her,-Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin more.' Many men who were reeking in filthiness were allowed to mingle with the Church ; but the poor fallen woman was looked down on and despised. A Christian minister might walk with a man who was said to be a ' little too fast,* and nothing was said; but if he was seen talking with a poor fallen woman, endeavoring to. rescue her from her evil life, she was not called ' fast,' but something worse, and some evil intention set down to the credit of the minister. What was the difference ? He could not see. fie could not see why the sin of the man should be slurred over, and that of the woman brought forth. They had been putting far away from them those who had been tainted with this sinj and the effects of it might be seen every day and every night. They had # thrust them out from every village and city, from every home of example, from every association that might lift them heavenward; and where were they now ? They woke up all of a sudden, and cried out against the great social evij, which they had helped through their, apathy to, create.—%^eo», : iv