PREACHING IN THEATRES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 59, 22 July 1868, Page 3

PREACHING IN THEATRES.

TO THM nDITOII OF TIIJO BTAII. 8m ; — Will you kindly allow mo a short B[mtiO In your columns, In nnowor to a letter n gnod (< LJnsootiirian/' which appears in tliifl ovonlng's Star I Thoro io an old adage, " Look boforo you leap," which I bog to ussuro your oomispoudent I did " before," a« ho says, " I ruHhed into print," thanking him nil tho mimo for hio (idvlco. Wlion I wroto hist, I littlo thought that Buah n olorm was browing) /or tho woathor wan flno enough then, With regard to my not having bconlu Kurluud for Homo yeatM, I can niisuro your corrouponriant U i» not longiiinca 1 loft England) nnd, although I havo boun In boiho of tinprincipal lowiih in Knglaml and Hcotlnml, 1 iicvor honrd of Its hvhg «lon« thoro, X What I wished to havo uudorfttood was tho oholuo of placo«— not a pluuo of umuflomont. A thcatro, whoro noting goes on purhnp» on tho tinturday nnd again on tho Monday, it* that tho place to go to hoar preaching ?— w liouko which, by houkj poi'rtooH, In culled " Ills HiUaulo Majcmy'i (U'(iwhig.i'ootu."i - IddTidrwlnh to havo tho nranohinor dono away with \ far from it, for ft certainly may bo tho lnunnu of doing much good in Christohuroh. JJub cannot a niforo uititablo pluvu bo found' for tho purposuT?? I hog to (tubSdrlUo myfloil! with my Grecian HlgUdtUl'G, Your ohodlcnt Horvant, DKLTA. Cluifltohurch, July 20, 1808.