MRS HAMPSON IN SYDNEY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3308, 8 November 1883, Page 2

MRS HAMPSON IN SYDNEY.

(From the “ Evening News.”) Mrs Hampson’s mission being now concluded, wo trust that it has been as satisfactory to herself, as to the converts she has made. Wc have not the slightest doubt as to the lady’s sincerity in her cause, whatever we may think of its results. Nor do wc doubt that the 800 converts she has made, believe as thoroughly in their conversion just now as they do in Mrs Hampson, and the memorial testaments she has presented to each of them. There is just one little point worth nolicing. As for revivalist exorcises, Messrs Moody and Sankoy may bo cited as successful examples. Both are clover and popular men, and tho one is regarded us a Chrysostom, and the other as a Sims Reeves by those who know nothing better. They managed to hit the public taste, and—make the best of it. Mrs Hampson

also strikes in the same direction, and she is undoubtedly a clever person. The best proof her sincerity is that she has not made a pecuniary profit, though she has been introduced hero by those who know how the religious oracle is to be worked. But her managers have made one mistake. They have termed her a “ lady evangelist.” Not for one moment would we question Mrs Hampson’s title to be a lady, nor would we dispute her claim to be an evangelist. Put the two terms together, however, and see how the festhetic “ lady evangelist ” stands beside the majestic <( woman,” by which title Christ addressed his mother. But then, to quote James Russell Lowell, John P. Bobinson, he Says they didn’t know everything down in Judee. Eighteen hundred and odd years ago the religious cad existed, but he was denounced after another fashion by the Master, who did not talk about “ lady evangelists.”