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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 525, 30 October 1890, Page 2

11 1 wish to say to the oonttregatton," said a minister in a town 'hat does not happen to be Gisborne, “ that the pulpit la not reepon« sible for the error of the printer on the tickets for the concert in the Sunday schoolroom. The concert is for the benefit of the aroh fund, and not the aroh fiend. We will now sing hvmn six, ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine.’ " General Booth, of the Salvation Army, thus writes on the subject of marriage: — “ Whilst our soldiers should avoid taking away from active service more t me than is really noaeasary for the purpose of courting, either by conversation or correspondence, it is not to the interest of tho parties nor of the army that marriage should take place without sufficient previous aeqnaiatanco. . . . No engagement, should be made, and no marriage take place, between parties who have not a reasonable prospect of maintaining themselves and their families whan married, in decent comfort. The army will not sanction or take part in any marriage which seems likely to end miserably, owing to the difference of age, circumstances, or position of the parties or of the probable inability of cither party to perform tho duties that would devolve upon them in their new relation.” He adds,‘‘A’ parson who is al! that can be desired on the Slatform may be entirely unsuitable M usbitnd ot wife.".