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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 5

The audacious minister of Pembroke Chapel, Liverpool, has boen flying in tho i'aco of traditional religious prejudices in a way calculated to turn white the hair of soivio people. Ou«ht peoplo to read novels on Sunday? ". Seriously," Mr Akcd declared, " any person who understands what a power fiction lias been in our English life, and what a still mightier power it is becoming and wiil becomo, will not dospise it even on a Sunday, and v Scotch Sunday at tha:.'' On tho subject of tlicatre-eoing, he i.s equally pronouncedin claiming individual liberty. "No church," he says, " has tan«lit tho duty of masculine purity as powerfully as it hns been taught by Oscar Wilde in tho ' Woman of No Importance.' No sermon which I have heard lias impressed upon my mind as • Tho Bnublo Shop ' has done a sense of the terrible burden of public duty and responsibility. I say quite seriously, in deliberately chosen words, that one of the most solemn hours of my lifo, compelling self-examination nnd prayei, was spent after witnessing that play." '