CROTCHETY GRUMBLARS OUT OF ZION.

Hastings Standard, Issue 153, 23 October 1896, Page 4

CROTCHETY GRUMBLARS OUT OF ZION.

"!'■> Tii;; Sir,- i thought your corn-spajnlent.s *• Methodist " iVr., w-to dead, but th.-> v iV r> evidently unaware of a boating. They :ire very anxious that I should give proofs of their lies. Now then to the task. Lie No. 1 : They are not Methodists. Lie No. 2: They said I was .going to debate oil Prohihi tion at j >anevirke. I am liot. Ia ■ No. :Th -y charge mo with sag! ; tii:g my work. I can tell thorn that I do l! tihing of the kind : Imt I don't think they have tlio right to char me with anything. f rule them entirely oat of t'i«* M"thodist court, and I atn sorry there is nor a l'rohihi- \ tory law preventing them from tolling lies ill the public Press, and stabbing a lMrn in the dark. Lie No. I : They toll mo that I :im alw.ivs running about on Prohibition. If I am, that is no business of liars, anv more than of thieve* or murderers. I don't acknowledge their authority to .lie' it-- '■> me. ihtv • bvoii away from Hastings but once in eight months on Prohibition, and surely that is ir.it m> bad. if your liars would go away from I las'ings oftoner I imagiiie there ::re p o|>! e who would be glad to see their ire-!,-, r-\» eially if tic y s.piaivd tlieir accounts b. fore ihoy went. Lie No. : They say t!:al the Hastings ('Lurch is getting dissatisfied with my going nw.iy ami neglecting luv work. Tin" Hasting-! officials unanimously ins iit d me, nt the last o'lici I meeting hole. to remain another t rm. If the Hastings ( iiurch wi re d. - - i'i :!■ 1 with my work. I think they have fair play enough to tell me, and not ho Mich cowards a - to stab mo in the public press behind my back", over tic ii:i-erahie subterfuge of a in in jj i e No. (I : Tin v s.iy tliat 1 have not denied the charges they laid agaill-t nie. i caiied (hem by their ri:11 nami - . and that is liars." If that is not denying 'h -ir charges, I am not ;u'ui;ainteii with Kngli-h. Lie No. 7 : "" Ib'V. .John is very pat with word " lie' and 1 liars' when he is cornered." 1 :>m thankful to say that it tal\"-'s more than a coward and a sneak to comer.me. i will come out and have a fair encounter with any man in Hastings over the liquor traffic, and prove it to b. a work ot darkness, and it votaries to be slayers of men. women and children by the thousand. Lie No. M To • li (Slings Church authorities imi-t vindicate their conduct in allowing >uc!t a gross case of neglect to go on so long unchallenged." The Halting; :iutborities have nothing to do with what public action I take in relation to lib nting men and women from the slavery of strong <h ink. 1 am keeping within my rights and prerogatives to takea public si and against all wrong-doing, and 1 am not come to Hastings to be put down by a lot of cowardly sneaks from the dram shops, who are naturally against any action that will endanger th"ir craft and lessen the blood-money got by the vendors of liquid damnation and poisoners of Her Majesty's subjects. The itible tolls us that '-All liars shall have their portion in the lake that burnetii with tire and brimstone, and no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven." A Christian mail must take a stand against all liars, drunkard-, -iveaivrs, murderers, whore mongers, thieves, blasphemers, and idolators. lam conic to Hastings to do that and I am come to stay, and all the cowards and crawlers in Hastings cannot shift me. Lot that be distinctly understood. ll is easy to light a fair man. but it is always difficult to tight an emptyheaded coward who murders another man in the dark. There was a time when a liar was hung by the tongue. Your correspondents must feel very glad that such a law is not enforced to-day. I may say that I am delighted to have this opportunity of ■giving your correspondents a hit of straight talk. They richly deserve the lash of the (iospel of -Icsus Christ. When moil concoct such murderous schemes in the dark, and plot destruction to a preacher of righteousness, they must expect to have straight talk from a straight man. I believe in calling a spade by its proper name. For the information of those who

think ilsa, it takes ine a long time to writ" (lies ■ letters, I may teli them that 1 fan write at the rate of 70 words a minute, and in a very short time f can run off a column. It is nothing ! to i.a- to la.-h the devil. I delight l'n in ir. I started it the moment I be- ! came a. Christian, and have been j keeping going for nearly a quarter of I a century, and I shall keep going to | the end.—l am, Ac., John llosiuno.