ST PETER VERSUS THE ODIUM THEOLOGICUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5657, 5 January 1880, Page 5

ST PETER VERSUS THE ODIUM THEOLOGICUM.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—Pastor Cbiniquy'a address, as reported iti your columns, while giving much information, is strangely marred by rough language and pttty details of a character ■which must bo regretted. As a Protestant, I deplore the Bomish errois he depicted, and cannot conceive why those errors have lasted bo long in the world. Yet it is a fact, and in regard to thom St. Pet-r's words are a command to receive without question— "Be pitiful, be courteous."' It l3 constantly gaked, " Why are theolgians so often rude to each other ?" Should not disciple* of the Saviour, "who, when He «as revl, raviled nor. again/' imitate Him in that respect ? Where do men who a.most unconncionsiy adopt a high and dictatorial tone get their model? Protestants have seen often how men who have seceded from Home sposk rudely of their old faith, and so do others who deserted Protestantism for Borne. The curious thing is, what good can be expected from disgusting a man witft vour cre?-rt and yourself, antl then trying to convert himt Y«t, such is tho generai movement o£ controversialist®. rtJiiJioas politic,!. I heard.Pastor interest, Mr. .Editor, uso tho you to advise him, tir > „, ien bo has a • word so often, to it there dls'justinQ ,* jf "painful and disrather should ho inflict it on gustia.gr J.*,,,,,,'* who there to be aBI /w onlv * Lot me ad rise him not SSSSifl^Sa? handling, however deierved, 13 out of p.ace, does not bear on his theme; aud mora.y ahuts ordinary human ears, and especially Kornan Catholio ears and hearts,[against ban* -lan, &c.,- : rROTKT^v