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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2513, 28 May 1909, Page 4

In protesting against the entry of the Church into the “not too clean arena of party polities,” in the course of a sermon at >St. David's Church, Auckland, the Rev. Gray Dixon said : “I have known two ministers of religion who loft tlio pulpit for the La--bor platform and entered Parliament as Labor members. One of them returned to the ministry, determined never again to expose, himself to the temptations to which he had been subjected; the other tried to get back mto the ministry, but had so lost in moral tone that the Church declined to receive him. Do not misunderstand me. I make no sweeping charges against Labor or any other politicians: I only show that I am not- ignorant of the special dangers of political life. Unless the politician defer to the altruistic message of the preacher, we know what the result will be, and wo can understand why the political career has so few attractions for some of our noblest minds.”

At one time there were two members of the House of Commons named Montagu Matthew and Matthew Montagu—the former a tall, handsome man, and the latter a little man. During a session of Parliament, the Speaker having addressed the latter as the former, Montagu; Matthew observed that it was strange lie should make such a mistake as there was as great a difference between them as a horse chestnut and a chestnut horse.

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