Rev. P. B. Fraser and the Outlook.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 62, 6 August 1906, Page 5

Rev. P. B. Fraser and the Outlook.

At Hiljend and Lovells Flat Churches on Sunday, the Rev. P. 13. preached Irom the text of Psalm 11 and 3 : the* foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do ?" He pointed out what was meant by the impressive figure, .the foundations ; and emphasised the fact that the Christian religion rested upon foundations universally admitted in. the min4 of man. If men were sophisticated into, believing that either there was no living God, nor soul, nor a future of final awards, it was useless to preach to them the offers of the Christian religion. You might as well speak to a granite wall. He then referred tti' the fact that these foundations were undermined and bitterly assailed in a manner worthy of Voltaire or Rousseau, in an article in the Outlook, the official organ of the Presbyterian Church, on the 21 st July. He had written a protest to its columns, and his protest hid been excluded. Yet his congregation were taxed to pay the editor's salary, and the paper was owned and subsidised by the Presbyterian Church. He and the office-bearers of his church were legally and morally responsible for what appeared in its columns. They heard ministers declaiming about individual and corporate responsibility. Every man who-had a hand in the liqUor traffic was denounced from the pulpit for complicity in that traffic. He could assuie them that there was j one traffic at least that he and h' s office-bearers would have no complicity in, and that was the traffic in infidel literature in the columns of the official o gan of the Presbyterian Church. They had not heard the last of it; only the beginning. They knew the battle he fought against the Outlook those at the back of it, over the called articles of union and over the mutilated Bible for the schools. Where were these articles and that mutilated Bitjle now ? Nobody could find either ot them. They were never heard of. He hoped a like success would attend his efforts to purge the columns of the organ of the church of literature of the kind he had referred to.

There were good congregations, and great interest manifested.