REVIVAL MISSIONS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3540, 13 November 1882, Page 2

REVIVAL MISSIONS.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sib,—lt was not ray intention to have troubled you with any further communication on the above subject, but after reading Mr Nichol's rejoinder to my last in your issue ot Saturday I feel that, injustice to myself, I must further crave your indulgence in order that I may refute the charges of unworthiness of motive and cowardice imputed to me by that gentleman and another correspondent (evidently a person ot exceedingly email mind) who signs himself " H," after which, so far as I am concerned, the matter will be allowed to drop. Mr Nichol speaks of a "cowardly attack from behind a hedge." Now, I like that style of reasoning, more especially when it comes . from a gentleman who, in common with all of bis class, is in the habit Sunday after Sunday of entering " coward's castle" (as the pulpit has been well dtfioed by one writer), where, taking advantage of the immunity from interruption and challenge that he enjoys, he fulminates his sore displeasure of all and sundry who disagree with him, and consigns to endless torment those whose reason prevents a passive acceptance of h's man-God doctrine. Perbapo Mr Nichol thinks I should have signed my own name, instead of writing under a norn de plume ; but surely, Sir, my reason for accepting the former alternative must be patent to everyone, Mr Nichol included. In the first place it is not expedient for me at present to figure as a martyr in the cause of intellectual freedom, although I hope yet to be in a position to openly snap my fingers at every religious oppressor who takes a secret delight in "boycotting a heretic. Mr Nichol refers your readers for particulars of the fruits of Messrs Moody and Sankey's mission to the Christian Monthly. What a weak conception ho must have of the outside world to think they are prepared to swallow without even a grain of salt tbe goody-goody twaddle of .an evangelical periodical issued in the interests of the very class of work under discussion Come now, Mr Nichol, you know tba won't do; let us have an independent opinion, or none at all. With respect to tbe remaining portions of Mr Nichols and " H's" letters it will save space if I refer them respectively to the following passages of Holy Writ which I commend to tbeir careful study :—Ecclesiastes ix eh. 4 ver., Romans viii eh. 10 and 33 vers, (as affecting the case of Richard W r eaver). I Corinthians xi eh. 5 ver., and xiv eh. 34 ver. (as affecting Mrs Hamp-son).-lam, &c, Viator. Napier, Sunday evening.