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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 27, 24 October 1884, Page 7

In the person of the Rev. Dr. Glancy, of Motherwell, the Catholics of Scotland possess a champion who has rendered their faith many good services by his letters to the newspapers of this country. Both Catholics and Protestants admire his ability. Among the clever things he has done was the winning of £50 from a local Protestant " missionary," who, relying on the veracity of " Brother Widows," challenged Dr. Glancy to prove that that " convert " never was a Catholic priest. At present the Catholic champion is engaged demolishing a Rev. " Dr." Brown, who came as a boon and a blessing to the Scotch Established church. " Dr." Brown was trotted out to the edification of people in general as a " converted priest," a late vice-rector of a Catholic college and a Doctor oE Divinity. Dr. Glancy contradicted the assertion that the " convert " had ever been a vicerector of a Catholic college or a doctor of divinity, and added that the name of the neophyte was not •' Brown " but " IHemsal," and that the man's real name had been altered for certain reasons not mentioned. All this he offered to prove by authoritative documents ; but the challenge has not yet been accepted. Instead, letters of a goody-poody-assertive nature have been written. In a letter in today's Glasgmv Herald Dr. Glancy again challenges Dr.iCuunmgham, Brown's patron to come to the scratch. Concluding his letter to-day, Dr. Glancy writes to the editor of the Herald : •• When I tell your readers that at the very time he was writing his last letter to the Herald Dr. Cunningham had before him an authentic copy of one of Brown's own letters, in which hia protege characterises his apostacy from the Church as a fall which fills him with remorse, and for which no one but himself is to blame, they will readily understand that I have ample grounds for my conviction that Dr. Cunningham is in reality conniving with Brown in an attempt to deceive the public." — Nation, August 30.