Correspondence.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 296, 21 August 1860, Page 2

Correspondence.

lo the Editor of the Colonist.

Sir—There is a vast deal said concerning Puseyites and Puseyism, High Church people^ and Low • Church people just now; and half the number of those who make so many absurd objections to it, hardly understand what they talk about; some of them even seem ignorant of their professed religion, sneering at the use of the cross as an ornament for the altar-cloth, or prayer-book cover* for instance, confounding, as they cortainly do, the cross with the crucifix, as if they were one and the same; forgetting that a crucifix is a cross with an image of the Saviour thereon, used only by Catholics, while the cross, the symbol of our faith, is simply the cross, which it is no Catholicism never to lose flight of, as being the means whereby the world obtained redemption. There now, I know you begin to fear I am reading a homily, but indeed, Tarn.., not, I wouJd much rather you heard one from our Bishop; lam only a woman. But what I wished particularly to say is this : what right' have disagreeable people to complain of our going to church every day (and, I tell you in confidence, Mr. Editor, I have invariably noticed that they are tliose who very seldom go inside-a church themselves ; then perhaps, only to; criticise the music, or to hear, for the first and last time, the sermon of some newly arrived clergyman, of extraordinarytalent in preaching), and to urge as a plea for so' doing that we do all kinds of naughty things, notwithstanding our indefatigable . church-going ("church-mania" (hey call it); and declare they do not agree with so much form.; Perhaps the observance even of only the forms of religion is to be preferred to their utter neglect. Now, sir, I reason in this way,, if we really ;dp naughty things (flirt and talk scandal they mean—is it not horrid of them?) while we do go to church, what might we not do did we not go ? Is there not reason id suppose we might be still more uncharitable still ? Are-we to pause in our devotions becauae we happen not to- be- perfect ? Nay, if we are not all we ought^to be now; let no one prevent our using every means in our power to become so. Yours truly, : . LINA. August 15,1860. ;; '