HENRY VARLEY.
TJO THE EDITOR. Sih, — tn the interests of fair-pla>j? will you permit me to protest against *'-, letter wuich appeared m. your cotamna headed " Frooi Our Wellington .Correar. pondent." A* a Liberal churehinkn X cannot admire the doctrina.l view's Mr.. , Varley expresses ; b,ut your correspond dent is. -ltimse.lt so. evidently. suffering^ from ma ta. cause his iette^"to assume the, color o£ .. a libel when Venting oiy th> work and character of Mr.. Variey; 'I tiiifffc the. writer, who displays, to say the least of it,. <so much bad taste m. dealing out his. personal aninmjs» could Kardly have\ v been present a,t Mr.. Vafley 's" fafewelV ajddress^ given:' \u tUe Imperial Opera*, house on, Ciuaday evening ; la,!HjHis I be*, lie re it was a, fair specimen, tit the class, of address Mr.. Varfey makes his speciality. X purposely attended,. and'l.ain; justitied i thmk m asserting "tlvat if tha i\pprec'ia,tive a.ud rivetted attention- of s.oiiie 2OotXor more intelliKent. persona — . for tu.fr Xoix|» space of tw.o liojurs — is; worth anything as a, factor m deciding., on the valu.e-of Mr-.TarleyainissLihary; labors, then I say that gen.tleuiaiT, in-, stf ad of b.ei.ng vilifi,ed for b,i« success^, is to be envied and esteemed. I; haveno hesitation m saying tha,t M'r.'Varlejis «v man imbued with, the spirit pf the, G-ospei he preaches,, and to the largemass of our {ellow.meq, on, who m no, (JnurcU Q9A get any. hold, X have- no, dou,b,t of the valuable -nature- of- ,th«S work U.PDA Mr. Yarley is : en--g^ged^ rerhaps to.au outsider J,he inoit unjust oi j your correspondeiXt'S asper«. sious is the change or spiritual piide which lie discerns lurking under Mr.. VarU-^'s, en^orts, and supplying the motive ot his action. I am bpu.uid to say as an impartial witness Umt X obserredi nothing of this Ph.a,risaisni, but i£s vvrf.opposite. VV'ere ii possible. to. animate" (u,e piUjjits of tlt.e Ohnstian ehurchos. generally wi.th souie ojf Mf.«i VArley'a. temperate z.eal— to. infuse^ \hs samespirit and. life in,to thje, bAlk of modera cUmeOAirses — th.c result wou|d soon be^ appa v rt.-n,t m th.c n.u,i^ber of ciiurchr-atten-1 ders (I au\ speaking gecyei'aJLy "of theCliristi,a.u churches) to say hotfatng of the revivifying of a, djec^liuuig Faith, andi of an iiAuieuiie. inpijease of 'a power m, influencing mAuk.iu,d for good..— i X aui^. «Sj«-» . . .'.-.'. :.. Francis,. .SBftfaiFF, ' Jw; ' r (I^ate cu,rate of ManaWatu)..
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 21, 15 January 1879, Page 2
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388HENRY VARLEY. Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 21, 15 January 1879, Page 2
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