VARLEY, THE EVANGELIST.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3236, 5 February 1879, Page 3

VARLEY, THE EVANGELIST.

Yaeley, the Evangelist, as he is called, says the Manawatu limes, is not a 'Crow' proper, but only a !daw with the white feathers plucked oiit. He follows the habit of the membej* for Cheviot in the management of his opirates—a habit exasperating to his hearers. He is not a ' whale" at praying, like some other .Evangelists I have heard, but,he makes up for his lack of vigour by.frequent aila* sions to his Lord and God. In delivery he is unctuous, and/in his manner oleaginous. A. quiet, subtle, yet palpable odour scintillates from hi's person, which says, ' Stand aside, for I am holier than thou.' A man above middle height of manhood ; in good condition: an' ugly customer to have to meet in the dark, had he taken to garotting for a living instead of ' preaching the .Gospel.' Bis hands and ears are large, betraying his descent. A massive head, jfcne lower portion of which tells its own tale of sensuality—either expressed or hidden, He is not a Nazarene, for he shaves, and cultivates a muttonchop whisker. A man well-bred; well tended; and on good terms with himself. In prayer he calls himself 1 Thy servant,' and states that 'he is crucified with Christi Seeing him standing before his larg/ audience addressing the Deity in top6s of intimate familiarity, in all the vigor of lusty manhood, arrayed in black broadcloth, with a pink or carnation in his coat button-hole, I wondered if that were the kind of 'crucifixion' of which Paul wrote and meant; or whether he came under the category of those who creep into houses, and set silly women by the ears. There is no man within or without the pale of Christendom that is more sus-, -ceftible to human emotion than your correspondent -that is more easily moved to tears by the recital of a daring deed, or some act of trivial heroism; that can more readily give praise for self-denial or oharity. There is no man living that hag a profounder adoration—ay, let the word adoration stand as it is written—for the life and labois of the man the Catholic Churoh canonised as Saint Paul, in his hardship, his hungerings and thirst, and nakedness and poverty, and stripes and imprisonment, than I have; and when I heard this well-fed, well-clad, smirking, unotuous Latter-Day Saint tell 'His Master'—as he termed the Fount of Life and Light—that he was cruoified as Paul was, orucified daily and hourly, I felt my spirit within ma moved to a loathing uuutterable; and even now, when writing, the recolleotion brings tears to mine eyes to think that the man who wrote in his Epistle to the Romans what Coleridge has called the ablest exposition of Christianity the world has ever seen, should suffer the degradation of suoh a similitude. What man or woman is there to whom the power of thought is given, but can see the difference? ' The one' worked with his own hands for a pittance,' lest he should be ohargeabletoany,and then lacked through' giving away what he had earned by his; daily and nightly toil. The other toils not, nor spins; he is arrayed in fine linen and fares sumptuously every day. His eyes stand out with fatness; the very tones of his voice give evidence of repletion. His lines bave fallen into pleasant places; and for himself he will doubtless : acquire a goodly heritage, lam writing in no spirit of bitterness or anger. lam forced to write as I do when I compare this Yarley with the ' pale Nazarene.' I could worship the man of sorrows from Galilee for his unsullied manhood alone, but would sooner follow for a livelihood the avocation of Pandarus, than blaspheme all that is pure in the annals of Judaism, by professing myself a servant of one whose shoe-latohet I was unworthy. to loose, unless I lived as he lived, thought as he thought, and did as he did."-