CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 527, 18 September 1871, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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"THEY WHO LIVE PRAYER BEST PRAY, LIVE PRAISE BEST' WORSHIP."

To tho Editor of the Evkning Si'ab.

Sir, —I feav my letter of (.lie llth has more pained than pleased my friends. 1 indulged in !i veiti of siliro more to my taste than my judgment possibly. Tho " expelled" farco has tickled tho risible faculties of many, for I have never been ashamed to speak of it. Sir, if I had boon guilty of a criminal act Mr. Davics could have afforded to say 1.0 me, " Neither do I ccdeiiin thue, go and sin no move." He knew how quietly and well I had troiden v very thorny road. How could ho throw a stone at me? He know I should say "hands off" to tho first man who darod to touch me. He further knew that I was not likely to wink at wrong-doing even though covered by a mantle of his own wearing. Mr. Barton asserts that I have vowed "to ruin the Albert-street Church." That, he is well aware, originated with himself. Ho was oatspaw —only too eager to do all the dirty work. But even in Albert-street ho is appraised at his true value; ' Minister and Deacons have nothing to fear from me; tho sin is their own. A foul and impious rust is, canker-like, preying on all that is ; fair and good in their midst. If they would cleanse ti'eir escutcheon jet them come forward' bravely and frankly, uud hold out a wqnn brotherly liami first of ail to Mr. ICdger, then to those good men whom they " expelled " —the very best men their churoh ever had iv its bosom. For myself Loire not if they leave mo without the pale, though,l am ready to run more than half way to meet them. Once for all, I entreat thorn freely and generously to wipe away this reproach—more hurtful to themselves and their cause than to the expelled by far. If after t.iii-s they have neither the courage nor the Christianity to say <; bury the past," then go and hear Mr. Davies on " Love," &c, and judge how well precept aud practice tallies. ■The author of. " Ecce Deus" writes :— "The sect church is the weakest, most despicable institution nien are now tolerating; nothing can be mpre unehrisfcianliko that js not positively devilish." Let Mr. Danes expunge th'n " devilish" element from his church by all means. ,He will be the better, happier man for so doing.—l am, &c, ' :■:

. ' ' : JpLLEIT ELIZAJJETIf ELT.JS. [We think the correspondence 'being all on one Bide should end here. Our correspondent has enjoyed the privilege of her sex in having the last word, and should now leave the Albert-street Church people alone. She seems to have already taught them "hands off," and we think llioy will not " daro to touoh her." As she seems so happy in' lifer present ecclesiastical relul'mis, might sho not enjoy her privileges quietly without keeping up an intermittent tiro ut. tlif! unfortunate people thataro not payltikera in ber great;mlvantages. Moroy should prompt tliia, if not prompted by that 'Oliristinn love which she so eloquently co.n--liioudß, and of which ehe appears to be a bright example.-^-EiJ. B.S;]