MR. WHITE'S LECTURE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 88, 15 April 1867, Page 2

MR. WHITE'S LECTURE.

Wo take the following letter addressed to the Editor of the Marlborough Express, from that paper, of the 6th instant : — Sir — In the Nelson Evening Mail of the 21st ult., I find an extract of yours commenting on ray lecture which I must say is not creditable to you as a would-be public instructor. From anything ...that appears to the contrary yoar outlying; readers might suppose that I had been lecturing on the "Deluge, or Daniel in. the Lions' Den." You say you "are bound in duty to say that, the subject [query, what subject] or the way in which the lecturer treated it did not appear to be popular with his auditory, who received his allusions to theological subjects in respectful silence." Had you stated that the subject was "On the formation of opinion," and on that "Master vice of society, persecution for opinion," your outside readers, and those of the Nelson Evening Mail, who had not heard it and who possess one grain of common sense, would see that to treat honestly on such a test the lecturer could not do otherwise than trench upon the tabooed ground of modern theology, out of which the strongest evidence of the melancholy results of the latter subject are so painfully elaborated. One word more; I will venture to prophesy that my lecture and the truths therein inculcated, will hold their ground long after the Marlborough Express and its dutiful Editor are embedded in mother earth 5 and that time will prove the soundness of them, and in the meantime, I can abide my time, Trusting to your sense of justice, as well as duty, to insert this in your next publication. I remain, &c, Senex Albus. [We have inserted the above at the request of " Senex Albus," whose thirst for popularity seems unquenchable, and are quite satisfied to let those who heard the very objectionable and offeusive lecture judge of our too lenient strictures, which were purposely intended to withdraw attention from what ought never to have been uttered before such an audience. As he thinks we have done him and his subject injustice, he has the remedy in hia own hands, let him publish the lecture. Posterity, to whom all great men — not to mention "reprobates," — are fond of appealing, may, although we hope not, appreciate what we cannot too strongly condemn.—Ed. M.E.]

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