PREACHING IN THEATRES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 60, 23 July 1868, Page 3

PREACHING IN THEATRES.

TO TIIK HDITOK Off THK HTAIt, Fin,— l havo road your, correspondent's lettorn elgnod " Doltn," nnd cannot help thinking that ho ia writing on a subject that ho known littlo of, or olso upon which ho holds peculiar, vlcwfl, Thoro arc soma tncu who aro prepared to deprecate any object, however good, that In dono out of tho ordinary ohnnnolfl, I think thnt it ia the opinion of a good many in Chrlntchurch Hint it really wan a good Idea of Mr llabcnn to give a rollfdoun dUooumo In tbo theatro, "Doha" nnyii Hint thoro were lota of othor phiecn iv which to pronch boalden tho theatro, and we all know thin, Wo havo our churohos, Town Ilall, and other buildings whero services aro held every Sunday, but tho object of unlng tho theatro wan, that pooplo who unfortunately attend no regular plneo of worship might bo tomptod to go, porlmps out of more ourloslty, aud that thoy then might hear something beneficial that otherwise they pcrhnpn would not havo dono, I think "Delta "had bettor my no more upon thin subject, but try to mako hotter uao of hia timo by doing nomothlng for tho bcnollt of his follow-crcittiiren, and not by too severely criticising othor men's good intentlonn. Your obodiont norvnnt, ALPHA,