MR. UPTON'S SUNDAY SNOOZE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9218, 22 November 1888, Page 3

MR. UPTON'S SUNDAY SNOOZE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Some wonderment has been expressed at the silence of the Synod on the strange heterodoxy of aSynodsman's spending an hour of the "day of rest" in the balmy slumber induced by the Sunday's plum-pudding. I fancy that more wonderment would have been evoked, and with reason, if, after a gentleman, in compliance with an official request, had stood up and expressed his views in a public meeting, he should have been officially censured for doing exactly what he bad been asked to do. Mr. Upton having been asked to state his views, and having stated them, surely cannot be blamed ; the blame, if any there be, should rest upon those who asked for the statement of views, the direction of which they had neglected to ascertain. I will even go a step beyond this, and say that erroneous notions will never be refuted if they are kept in the dark ; till a surgeon gets at the bottom of the mischief It is hopeless to expect a cure. In addition to this, that same meeting was the place for refutation, not the Synod. The Synod is an annual gathering, convened for transacting the business of the diocese, and it leaves the settlement of matters of faith and doctrine to such bodies or no bodies, as the Waikato Archidiaconal Conference or the Lambeth Synod ; the former, for choice, as being more ready to pronounce authoritatively upon obscure and debateable points. —lam, &c, A Member of Synod.