Mooncalf 'Devotions '

New Zealand Tablet, 23 August 1906, Page 22

Mooncalf 'Devotions '

We thought we had killed off, in New Zealand, the bogus prayer falsely alleged to have been ' found in the tomb of our Loul.' But the pestiferous thing seems to have the life of a microbe. This week we received a copy of the superstitious production (originally, we understand, the work of a Jew), together with a barrelful of watery gush about it. The sender is anonymous. But we advise that he, she, or it forthwith proceed to boil the kettle with the wretched travesty. It is everywhere under the ban of ecclesiastical authority. Similia sunilibus— like to like: It is ' religious > eccenliics and 'pious' rantipoles that hanker most after those odd, fantastic, mooncalf inventions that lia\ c not in them a speck of true devotion.