REVIVAL MISSIONS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3536, 7 November 1882, Page 2

REVIVAL MISSIONS.

[To the Editor of the Daily Teleqbaph.] Sir,—Under the title of " Revival Missions " your issue of last evening -contained an extract from the Wanganui Herald, and anything more grossly onesided could scarcely be penned. That writer must have looked on the things he professes to relate with an extremely jaundiced eye. It would be needless to notice the article were it not that it clearly originated from a desire to prejudice the public. Mesers Moody and Sankey are too well and favorably known to require defence, and from my own personal knowledge of their work I am prepared to give the assertions of facts, as this Wanganui writer puts them, a flat contradiction. Richard Weaver was no favorite of mine, but no vile accusation should be allowed to pass against any man unless true, and more especially when by a personal reference it is intended to stab a wider interest. £ have not the proof beside me, but can well remember that, before I left Britain, it was known to those who were willing to know that the " illegitimate child " story was a flagrant untruth. People generally will be quite capable of judging for themselves as to Mrs Hampson's mission without the " spirited direction" of the Wanganui correspondent. —I am, &c, W. Nichol.

Havelock, Nov. 7, 1882,