TO THE EDITOR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1440, 26 September 1905, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR

Sir,—As a thoughtful looker on I cannot bull regrot that your correspondent--- 1 " Sadducoe" should descend ftom the high x 1 and I beliove true levol of his first excellent letter in jour paper to the tirade against Morvyn Jamos Stowart re hen* wives, I am convinceci that the sage of Athenroo;is as well read n mau ai there is in the community, and how 7; ho can identify himself with a movement such as tho 1 alleged. revival in.our midst is a thing " no fellah can under* Btand." Mi' Stewart, erudite as he must be .-i mthoßOiencos,.muetin the course of his | studies have touched on tho social side, r'' and could have overlooked the ~ works of that otbor learned student, Have- i : « look Ellis, who, in his " Psychology of f Sex," treats of revivals and revivalist] in a . moat masterly manner, and in such a way ' ..£ that lam oonvinoed that wore tho afore- 7 mentioned gentleman to read, mark', learn, and inwardly digest the same, he, together with one or iwo other intelligent people who havo identified themselves with this unnatural and news-paper-boomed movement, wpnld do a little hard thinking, and lam confident the re- >' .viyal wouidkno>v him no more. What, ' f ma!y I ask, apart from all question of unnatural exoiiemont which this movement engenders, cau be thought of a revival which produces a sample of religious per-' vcrtwho deolares a freedom from tin suoh as Adam' possessed, bofore the Fall? iff Possibly if this perfervid subject a? re- V'< ligions mania goes a step farther, andanv ' nounoes himself as the Moßsiah, ha be trundled off to a mental hospital, and yj;;'-.; be reinforced probablj with a few raore'T.l hundred spirits from Wjuhi.as the aftermath of the revival.—l am, eto„ 14 ■ Gnosxii, W-