ASHBURTON WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1320, 7 November 1885, Page 2

ASHBURTON WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL

To thk Editor. Sir, —I think it will be generally acknowledged that one of the tendencies of the times is to make men critical; perhaps some would go farther still and say. Yes, hypercritical. Be that as it may, I cannot help passing a remark on the report of the above which appeared in y'obr issue of last night.' Referring to Mr Isht’s evening sermon, It says— <( la additionto its intellectual worth the discourse'was a masterpiece of elocution.” I don’t know who your correspondent is, but 1 should ' like to ask him were these the only merits it possessed, or does he consider these deserving of chief prominence, and when ■ a preacher succeeds in an exhibition of these, however much wanting in other respects, are his hearers to say well dan* f Perhaps I may be wanting in appreciation of the intellectual and the charming graces ~ of elocution, but my humble opinion is that the sermon in question had other features much more commendable to a congregation of devont and intelligent worshippers than those specially simtled out by your correspondent. Hoping hint may have its intended use iu future, "j? I am, etc, A Wesleyan. Ashburton, November 6.