FREE AGENTS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 831, 8 February 1906, Page 27

FREE AGENTS.

A remnant of the old fire obtains still in the Pittsburg Presbytery (Eng.). The Rev. Dr. Dunlop Moore is of the ancient breed. When the so-called “temperance” ag tatorschallenged h m in open meeting to speak his mind on the subject of drink and total abstinence, he spoke of it unequivocally :—“I ho'd myself at liberty, for my health’s sake and for the glory of God, to take a glass of wine when I th’nk it necessary. I will not take the pledge. I want to be my own free agent. I believe that men should act as intelligently in the use and abuse of intoxicating drinks as they do w th any other dangerous instrument.”