MR COX’S 5,000.
TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —Nineteen hundred and three years ago a Governor of a Roman province hud two men brought before him, one a thief and one a noted Reformer of that day. The Governor could find no,fault of crime against the Reformer., and 1 was about to set him free, .but the' multitude cried, No; crucify Him,” and that was done. Two hundred years ago a man, one John Wesley, of the Anglican Church of England, preached for ..the democratising of that church so, that its preachers would have more liberty in preaching the social ethics of the Bible. The nabobs of that day expelled him, so he founded the Methodist Church. In 1933 a Methodist preacher, one E. T. Cox, of Dunedin, got leave from his church to contest the election, and became mayor of the city to try and relieve the destitution that was so rampant in a so-called Christian city, and no one’ can deny he has done splendid work to that end. Is history about to he repeated? Is he to be expelled from his church? I wonder. Have the modern money changers, scribes, and Pharisees lost theiri power? Again I wonder.—l am, etc., Justice. May 9.
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Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 15
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205MR COX’S 5,000. Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 15
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