The Worthington Affair.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4666, 9 June 1893, Page 3

The Worthington Affair.

TO THB EDITOR. Sib, — Tour correspondent " Clean Breast" is scarcely entitled to much credit {or asking such questions as he has propounded. The obvious reason why Sister Msgdala proposed to leave her children with A. B. W. were because she did not desire to have the expense of their clothing and sustenance. She preferred that others should bear tho burden. Besides which, they would probably hamper her movements and militate against the influence of her mesmeric fascinations. Aa a divorced woman who took up with a daring, heartless and unscrupulous reprobate, and went "through a form of marriage'? with him, Sister Magdala can scarcely go into an explanation 'of what took place in America without involving herself. Ab she cannot call herself hia wife, what ia sheP Her position is that she is bound to support the teaching and the teacher, else she must plead guilty to the whole fraud, Does not "Clean Breast" eeo how plain that is? At the same time she naturally feels exasperated with the profligate whom she took up when at his loweßt, a criminal and a beggar, through whom she was divorced $ taught him all he knows of the religions dodge; put him upon his feet, and set him going. Therefore she would be mora than woman if she was not spiteful as far as prudential limits would allow. .Sister Magdala detests falsehood and she speaks the truth, and the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as a preacher of Truth should. It was for that reason that she suppressed the most telling portion of A. B. W.s letter, when she handed it to the press. Doeß not" Clean Breast" see that she abhors humbag? These Irinds of tricks are part—tho moßt essential part—of the stock-in-trade, and "Clean Breast" must be a Student not to recognise it.—l am, <fee, DULL HEAD.