ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1200, 20 February 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

;(to the editor of the oamaru. mail.) ; Sill, —At the outset I may premise that ■ any.leaningto. Roman Catholicism is no 'failmg of, ~iiiine, for, from my earliest (years I f have learned to admires aiid reverience tHe stern, unyielding faith even unto ;death shown by the Covenanters, Whose descendants now form' the Presbyterian : Church.

| Fropi-yariousV ipcals'. and notices which ;have itppteared iecently in the papers; it is ; procjajmedthat.tlie dissenting clergymen have t'afe'en inland Pastor Chiniquy, and liate„.place'd. „ largest church in this town at}his :disposalj; .for what? to e.iable him to vilify and abuse the Roman Catholicspnot - only, you will understand," the vicious andiwiclfed .of, that body, bu.fc the whole of them - That there are bad Ostholics'inone-Lcan deny. For ■ the - sake of argument, wo will admit some of them are only fit ' to be hanged,- or put out of ihe world in . the most expeditious and 'Way/possible' 'But. \yhat of that ? Ave.;t^re^H!6'.' : ba/d dissenters ? Examine records and there will b(j jinajority not Roman Catholics.. mission is to' preach:, the Gospel . of Truth, the good' tidings, of everlasting love, descend: to a e'rusade agaiustr as sect- which,, at-least, ..believes in the same God and Saviour. Ia ifythat' by' contemplating certain" special stns :i %hicl| ! 'they: are .innocent of- (partly by temptation- to them has been . put they may swell with 'tile' 1 that "jt/i ; cse_ f are, 1 "things not, to r theiv took.' 1 What ; go6d can <stfcfi as -do* here ? Have the<€!ath6licb-atu'any.M;imbl or in any done aught as ; a body to require that they should be lectured against and put down in a perfunctory sort of manner.,

It was reported once that Father Henno* berry wished to visit us with a like intention on the other side, i e., to talk against Protestants, but Father Coleman, discerning -the; unwisdom of such work, refused to countenance. his visit. If this be; true" does it not speak volumes, showing wherein the true charity lies, " without which all else is nothing." I sincerely trust that ;the citizens of Oamaru will steadily put their faces against this man [and his doubtful fission, and ask themselves would they -not feel most keenly if they, say, being- Protestants, were, wantonly assailed and their religious convictions attacked by those differing in ideas, and with other thoughts and doctrines. The motto of a Christain is "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you."—l am, &c., A Staunch Protestant.