ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 30 November 1899, Page 17

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

Platelayer. — fhe story of the 'conversion' of the nun in Grenoble to the Salvation Army is, on the face of it, an insane invention. There are many convents in Grenoble, and the names and particulars are cautiously withheld. This is the usual method of this class of fibster, as the publication of accurate data would lead to a prompt exposure of the falsehood. Don't trouble yourself over those missionary yarns, whether they come from the Salvation Army or any other source. Stuff of this kind must be served mp if the shekels are to be kept rolling in. The thorough-going unreliability of the usual missionary reports have been scathingly denounced time and again by such notable Protestant authorities as Dr. Cust, Rev. H. Hensley Henson, and a host of others. Perhaps you will remember the glowing returns of conversions by the Connaught ' Soupers,' who magnified the few dozen starving unfortunates whom they induced to temporarily sell their faith for Indian meal porridge into a vast array of ' converts ' almost as great as the entire population of the province. It brought in the cash, and that was the main point.