MR WORTHINGTON AND HIS TEACHING.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8096, 12 February 1892, Page 2

MR WORTHINGTON AND HIS TEACHING.

SO THB BDITOB OF THB FttSSS. Whole 3Hth"eaks we to proeeoß evidence in eupport of myistatexnent that the land-nrqueetion has been cold to the of Truth " trtutees. Aβ I am perfectly satisfied with the «ronni % V*« *rlen up, I do not feel

called upon to open up details ♦ I who persists in a foolieil X I sayeo will not alter th™ fX*** «i 1 troverey ia co puerile that I Jill h 'S 1 rouble you. /The Whole ffll >'° U «i I vhatever he choosee,--Yo "W «, I TO THI EDITOB OF *H3S I> RE ,, \ I Sib,—As one who has been it jereste* (if not to say &m £s g*U y ~ § •espondenco m your paper with L^ 9 8 ' th A ow ?, e " h, P of the section cM S which 'Facts•'and «The Whtt , " « lave "fallen out," I would ? -1 suggest to the latter the adv4& ! <\, " \ reading the words of the opera <«\t , of i t ! a therein lies the eolation oftl-e" ! rent mystery. Ko-Ko, as you il *V& J . wdered to behead Nanki-Po, butTd,? , **< k>, Being called upou by tho M explain matters, the gist of hi* *•' ««i that his Majesty" had X e fr H Po to be beheaded, therefore the i> f w good 03 done, so "practical!, m *i.i lone • iuggest.hewiUeeethoutUr u£H I jvntmg further, for evidently "*&?*« f Follower of Ko-Ko aa well 4 of vJV• I Yours, &c, i-tr »., i. "As Good as a | TO THE EDITOR OP THE r ßEsst | r^^lT 1 * Beems *° mo that c harity .^,. t Christchurch public are alions ft af "One of the Publk!"«ittK I "Quibble •• are to bo token a. tl • | Jf public feeling. If « Quibbl™ ff*> I liia common sense ho would have m that » Student » was either I idveraariea (writing aa he did torlV , ft iiscussion) or a student not worth* X name. " of Ut pt lam not a Worthingtonian, but fed * I t there is much in the Science of Ck! , l< commends itself to all lovers of I 1 and justice. Our minietera are in condemning Mr Worthington J ; l> tho majority havo nob hvui' v I but by what they h their toUowere, and tho reeult » 31. there ia a very erwneoua I' ibout as to tho teaching. WhatwT?? I Worthington hoa been (aud if "OanuS i md his friends arc without em let T cast the first atone) ho in a nobh JeS ' Ohrjstian gentleman. Hβ believee in t * soul he is teaching truth, and ptocli . f * earnestly. If our ministers believe I they preach o* hell tiro and damnation ft* ; % wonder to mc that they can talk of'it " calmly and not try and rouse men to % J* \ of their danger. "* *~ As far as I can see, there is much th«» & noblo, good ana uplifting in the UachlT Mid who are wo that we should W \ ¥ man if his life before ua is uunahtJ I s straightforward. s p Thankingyou in anticipation,— fF LOVBK OJ CHABltr, f ' XO THE EDITOB OF THE TRESS. ii' Siß,—lt is surprising to find how ota we retiuiro to be reminded of tho faos tk i ?- : what seems quite unintelligible to ism f persons may be equally easily underetot* I" by others. . || God has implanted in us five faum |l senses, and surely a man can only be q. w pected to believe what appeals to his & ing faculties through thcae channels of y brain. What the teachings of Jdr Woni- S ington are lam not in a position to ski* % is they are only known to mc from hearsw! i' But I cannot holp expressing my regret ii %' the 7>t»».rasaical attitude taken up bytfe of tho Daughters of tho Kb/i |l l Son in their letter in your issue o l ' v I' LOth inst., which is couched in language w |t only eadly wanting in Christian feelmg»bjl i but which is also excessively immodest ssj | ungentle. | The good this society may bo vurkitj ?<, imongatthe community in ita unoetcatatea 1° manner nobody may perhaps wieli to desn § but I do most strenuously refuse iMift If right to attempt to make itself out a te% f agent than Mr Worthington, who only j.» ' < fesses to teach the truths of the Biith « C, they are manifested to him—andean w I blame him? ' iThe person who put himself to the tro# ■;- rf eliciting certain facts conccrnisg ~Us C Worthington's past life, may be expenws i feeling of exultation at hia success; bat I >, lay to him, let him examine himself sad m< laps in future he may be more eavffl.is ivhich direction,he throws " the etone! | it whom he points "thelinger of #jsns iow much better a man am £ than h \ l$M iim ask himself. If As I belong to neither church nor I • fou will please understand that tb.l* ii h'• rvrittou not because I have boon in any wj |" oersonally offended by the ecofliug tMbi gl; »acher of the truth, but simply to rem»l F" certain persona that it would perhaps Ita ti h , well to be as particular about oursttefeJ T ; we are about other people.—Yours, &&, S;' A. Sissiß. f$ P.S.—Would the Hon, Sec. of theSocist} t t af the Paughtera of the King's Sob pissa f inform mc when religion became a " pateatj' |~" , md also by what right thia branch is L, Christchurch existed previous to its tMs T' biou with the Society in America. h *' Christchurch, February llth, 1892. ' ]/ TO THB EDITOR OV TUB I Sib, —It was with a great deal of intereS sy, that I read the article of your "Spf", j on "Mr Worthington and his Teaonißgfc f J I have heard that gentleman sixor»i«s r J times, ajid have spent a good deal of tiff C studying'«The Uomforter." Eighteen months ago I folt enxionaU . know who Mr W. was, and enquired of cat b,. Of the students for information, '.fasten- ;, lightened individual told mo that he r>, care who he was or where ho came from v [• { he only taught the truth. \ I cannot understand why Mr Wortte | • ton should keep back the acconnii <h bs r public career. The public, I am m§® ?■; not wish to know anything of the pwdu |. he played while sowing his wild «M> j But, sir, I think we have a wh JW f reason for wanting to kuow eometaß^ 0 f Mr Worthington, and on what authority &• | makes the following statement :-4?F»-« B j} ■' of prayer on page 84 of " The Comforts |- he Bays: "To Bay that the highest fona* | prayer—communion—ia silent is not \. that oral prayer is wrong; what w< M rBay IB that we believe petition, Buppl"- ,atll q i and beseeching are inherently *"• °. I that they are used through iU Bm H ,( *" : Who and of what God i«, M f ,, •? ' : lack or want of belief in wf «»«* : standing of Omnipotence 'W* v "r, : presenci. It ia no less "t ' idolatry, however unconsciou* &* J l6 '" Christian may be that it is so. J**?;."!.'in plain language, the "devoafc Wg* ' who have done more to rala«(the J««J clothe the naked, and feed the Mr Worthington has done, or •«*■*■" #' Christiana who are spending ther ii»« . the good of others, aud who would nejj afraid to " unburden their *oa» »», their public life is concerned ; women whose memories will M long after Worthington ia forgot ton-wj people are branded aa bleepbemers idolators.— Yours, &c, v^jriiu*! 240 South belt. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE ****** SiR,-Truth ta- evidently which "Student No. 2" «««^ f g ( ! want, to judge by his letter to-duy. Ferliaps h. will to Mk him to cay in wh,ch of oor» pulpits, or on which of her P>«°«f tet Le 'heard the doctrine of sfft preached? Hi 9 reckless ireditable to ii Student of Tniw&c "' BanisTons and T^ 2 *