A MISREPORTED MISSION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10594, 25 October 1910, Page 1

A MISREPORTED MISSION.

(Per Press Association.)

. .i.... Wanganui, Octobei -24. j -In reference to a telegram fiom A\ ajii. . [ reiterating the statements made by the . i focal'paper-iji a- condeus'ed l eporfc .of thc , ! missioner's-concluding address in that I tov.-n, a Chronicle reporter tormglit in-. ; tterviewed Dr Henry, who .said lie had ; i already" given • his answer, and w as' -nof , | prepared -to enter into ; further contio- ■ ■ versy. His rejily, as-previously given, ; I was that the newspaper report -was dis- : jtortedf and fundamentally untrue. For , ! example the statement was-made that ; there - were about .100 confessions of the ; i faith during; the missiou, v. liereas there , i were nearly "of viiot- .quite: three hundred. ; ' "Then,"' said.Dr Hemy, "1 am credited 'witlr using - :the .word 'skunk,'; a word I IjhMe neverr:xised..-insj-the my ; thirty'.^years'/ranimstry.-;;;:. What-,, I did t were - dying : m-- a; j Castle,, yo | men don.'"t -have the ; moral , courage, of ; your own-convjctions, ■ and are afraid to ,face either tlie truth or Jesus Christ. - llou! are- skulking , behind'the,. Cross like sspiritual sliirlis.'■ In xefeiring to.the " matter." qf-.-: moral courage, . 1., used an ;illustriition -from- Dr ;.Torrej's work. in 'ChiuaV w-benV.after. dehvenng' an address on libw to become. a child of - God,: he conoludcd bv saying that every .man w as either- a- child . of. (iod or a child of the devil;' and-' that: we are ,not children of the devil first by choosing - and. then j by confessing Christ. At the close of his message 'hundred and fifty Chinamen went: into the enquiry room, and Dr Torrev,'-through an interpreter, asked them : whv- .thev, .had ,-come, to w-liich they replied, 'We liave come to show::'.our confession .of Christ that, .we are children of God and not the chddren ,- of-the devil.'- Tljen I said 'You-men who have heard 'tlje word pioclajmcd during the 'inissionj but who have refused to 'be true \ have" not as 'much' moral courage as' those heathen Chinamen.'' This, it will be s'cen,' is ( , ntirel>different fronr' from Wailn thai! Dr Henry had declared the .-people.- to .-vbe - ,'spiritual skunks, without:-the-courage of Chiua.men:' "■ %, M 1 '