DR. HENRY’S MISSION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14345, 25 October 1910, Page 4

DR. HENRY’S MISSION.

. MISREPRESENTATIONS CORRECTED. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, Oct. 24. In reference to the telegram irom Waibi reiterating the statements made by tho local paper in its condensed report of tho missioncr’s concluding address in that town, a Chronicle reporter to-night interviewed Ur. Henry, who said tie had already given his answer and was not prepared to enter into further controversy. His reply, as previously given, was that tho newspaper report was distorted and fundamentally untrue. For example, tho statement was'made that there were about ono hundred confessions of faith during the mission, whereas there were nearly, if not quite, threo hundred. “Then,” said Dr. Henry, “I am credited with using tho word ‘skunk,’ a word I have never used in the pulpit in my thirty years’ ministry. "U hat I did say" was this, in speaking of people who wore dying in ‘Cowards’ Castle’; ‘You men don’t have tho moral courage of your convictions, and are afraid to face either tho truth or Jesus Christ. You are skulking behind tho cross like spiritual shirks.’ In referring to tho matter of moral courage, I used an illustration from Ur. Torres’s work in China, when, after delivering an address on how to become a child of God, he concluded by saying that every man was cither a child of God or a child of tho Devi], and that we are not children of tho Devil first by choosing and thou by confessing Christ. At tbo close of his message one hundred and fifty Chinamen went into the inquiry room, and Dr. Tornly, through an interpreter, asked them why they had come f to which they replied: ‘We have como to show by our confession of Christ that we are children of God and not children of the Devil.’ Then I said; ‘You men who have hoard tho word proclaimed during the mission, but also have refused to bo true, havo not as much moral courage as those heathen Chinamen.’ ” This, it will be scon, is entirely different from the statement wired' from Waihi that Dr. Henry had declared tho people to bo “spiritual skunks without tho courage of Chinamen.'”