A LETTER FROM PASTOR CHENIQUY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5355, 15 January 1879, Page 2

A LETTER FROM PASTOR CHENIQUY.

UE CHALLENGES FATHER HEXNEE KRY. [PEP. :t lIERALD " SPECIAL WIRE.] Wellington, Tuesday. The Post publishes the following letter from Pastor Chiniquy : —" Sir, —As an unknown friend from New Zealand sends me your number of the 30th November last, in which I see Father Heuuebery knows me so well that lie thinks it his Christian duty to denouuee me as a swindler and liar. As I intend to pass a few days among my Christian friends of New Zealand, will you be kind enough to allow me, through your journal, to inform the good father that it is my .intention to give him an opportunity to prove before the world when and how 1 have raided money under false pretences, or said any lie to deccive the public? Some years ago I thought it my Christian duty to give the same opportunity of proving his character against my character to another priest named Branet. The consequence was that the good (?) and holy (?) priest of Home, haviug failed to prove his slanders, was condemned to several years of gaol in the city of Kaukakae, State of Illiuois ; but, after six months of gaol, he broke away to Canada, where he published that the Holy Virgin Mary had miraculously opened him the doors of his prison. Rut it was the last miracle which the Virgin had to make in his favour, for a few months after he had the good common-sense to die, — a few days before he was to be brought again to his cai'e.— I am, &c., C. Chiniquy. Sydney, 31st December, lS7*-. n