"THAT PURITANICAL OUTBURST."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 6

"THAT PURITANICAL OUTBURST."

Sir,—l believe 1 am that puritanical person that "Phylax" refers to, though he lias not tie courage to use my name. I well remember the time "Phylax" refers to. ilia advanced Ritualistic views on "Church union" showed him then in his true colours. Now lie reveals himself on the sido of the drink traffic. Evidently "Phylax" has made a god of his stomach. Anything that is likely to hinder him having his brandy sauce is not likely to have much help from him. "Phylax" is of the "upper ten" of society in this district; he has no time for the bottom dog. Quo can imagine "Phylax" thanking God he is not as other men are (meaning, of course, the Prohibitionists). Ho accuses me of attacking my pastor. Well, "Phylax," if 1 have, I have done it openly. 1 did not adopt "Phylax's" very unfair methods of attacking people from behind a hedge. If he has used the present occasion to attack me, let us know who lie is, and sUte facts, not fiction, then perhaps ho might rcccivo as hard knocks as ho can give. Anything I write about I have the courage to sign my name to. His attempt to prop up the Archdeacon in his attack on a body of citizens reveals him in his truo light. He should give us his opinion on "politics from the pulpit." I always thought people went to church to worship God. Now, it seems from some anonymous correspondents, they go to worship the beer barrel. Anyone that does not agroo with this now kind of worship is immediately branded as puritanical. Then as regards ''Phylax's" referonco to the priesthood: "Did ho ever liear any reference to the priesthood of the laity?" Jf "Phylax" goes back to first principles, ho might find himself in a difficulty. Again, his sneers at tho utterances of the l!ev. Mr. llnmmoml, and his opinions of unfcrnicnted wine, do not go for very much. We are told that Christ used the l'ruit of tho vine. Evidently "Phylax" does not know very much about tho manufacture of wine, and when he savs that we should be careful to "provide tilings honest" lie should also be careful. 1 will quote him an authority on wines. W. Taylor, Master of Method in JJnttoreea Training College, rooospjiaod authority in ths teaching

of temperance in tho Church of England, says, on 601110 well-known wines, "Tho wines that are most'used in this country ■are port, sherry, and claret, Port wino comes from Portugal, through Oporto. Sherry from a place named Xercs in tho South of Spain. Claret from France. Biit, as n matter of fact, very little of wines, if any, como from tho places named, and what; is most important, very little genuine wine comcs at all. Host of it has ljcen coloured, flavoured, and made stronger than it would naturally he by die addition of brandy." The liiblo says, "Wine is ' a mocker, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." One way, among others, in which wine olten deceives those who use it is by pretending to be what it is not—tho fermented juico of tho grape.—l am, etc., THOS. 11. MILLIGAN. January G, 1912.