MR. DALLIMORE AND THE MASTER

Sir, —A clear-cut issue can be sustained between Mr. Dallimore and the Saviour whoso name he invokes. Thus: Mr. Baltimore's patients fall at his feet in a coma, which he calls divine, but for which others have simpler words. There is only one case in the Gospels of a man falling down as folk do in the Town Hall. It is roundly said that the devil did it. The Master's method was to lift men up. It is the antithesis of the Dallimore method. Then, too, in all leprosy cases Jesus dealt with, people had been "certified" by the medical authorities (priests then). When he healed them he sent them back to the medical authorities for a clearance. That was candour. But when a panel of doctors offer similar service to Mr. Dallimore, offer to investigate his per cent of successes and his per cent of dangerous failures, and to publish results, there is a flutter in the "revival fire" dovecotes. There is much more candour at Lourdes than at the Auckland Town Hall. Let men weigh Christ's avoidance of publicity with the trumpet that is blown in Queen Street. Let men recall how He deprecated miracles, and finally ceased (almost) from them because they obscured His mission, with the all engrossment of the people in the one thing. The passage from the Gospels to Mr. Dallimore is a passage into another climate—it would seem into another world. Veiiax.