ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD'S SERMON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 13

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD'S SERMON.

SYDNEY; September 25. # - Oro of the speakers at the great 1 meeting last, night .made ".much capital "out. of- the .Stoke Orphanage affair, pointing out that : Archbishop Redwood latf3ftlenty- of Vorfc to do in attending' to his own people with':out troubling -to reflect upon 'Protestants Meetings similar to those held in Sydney' were held in various n .parts of the colbnv last night. - • - ' ''■ ,* The Sydney Morning Herald; in commenting upon last night's meeting, says that it shows how "deep was the Wind inflicted on the harmony of the creeds by the language used by Archbishop Redwood, wmch they would prefer not to quote, as it would be Harsh and unjustifiable even it used in the most private circles of the Archbishop's own co-religionists. • ' The Telegraph says that the slowly growing feeling of toleration has received a blow by the wholly indefensible passages m which Archbishop Redwood had libelled Protestantism. September 26. A large meeting held at Newcastle protested against Archbishop Redwood's zanders. The Bean of Newcastle, though. no,t present, in a- letter defended the. Goyernor (Earl Beauchamp), whose courtesy had been taken advantage of. Commenting upon Archbishop Jtedweod'a- remarks he says that they read like a sermon' tag tihafc had done duty- before.^ He "did not- expect; complimentary references to Martin Lutker from a Catholic orator, and they were': not? likely to get -them ; nor Mid he think- that, they -should lose their heads when a man - says exactly the sort of tilling that Catholic preachers are in the -habit of -saying. It was not possible to make Archbishop Redwood recant, and they were only engaged in busily advertising his singularly un favourable estimate of themselves. V ~