THE REV. MR WILL AND PROGRESS.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 82, 3 February 1876, Page 5

THE REV. MR WILL AND PROGRESS.

TO THB EDITOR Sib, -The ßev. Wm, Willis rebor'ted in the 'Bruce Herald of test Friday tp have spoken as follows at the recent soiree held at Tokomairiro : —It was a bad thing for, a church as for an individual Christian to go back. .If was the gk rv of the Reformers that they hail begun the work that succeeding generations would carry on as there was rib standing stiH.v, F,very forward, step m social progress had been objected "to. When new fanning implements were introduced, those that used them were looked upon as tempting Providence'^" Machinery' it was thought would deprive working men of their decupation, but who would new like to go, back to the pairt V I have quotedthe last sentence as indicating the progress on wliich -the reverend gentlemari'was dilating, and forthe purpose of calling attention to the manifest inconsistency between- his-utter-anfces in Tokomairiro and his speeches at* the re- : cent meeting of Synod ori the Using of instrumental niusic in the sel*Vice 6f God Of the people, of Tokomairiro h* asks, who would now like to go back to the past ? Arid yet ho himself advocated over and oyer again $, going back to 88 *^ Q^* 0 jel-uMe-the churches in' the Public Worship of God He strove to persuade' the Synod to go back. to the' effete knd past' away beggarly .elements:- of -Judaism, whose-in-stramentaljnusi.c disappeared befdre-Jhe rising tide;otChristianity, and, was suffered to have no place tothe Chnstiari service of 'God, *KU that^ ■service became iri part a mixture of Judaism and ' Pagamsm in the hands ofthe corrupt Church of : Ro^ne, discarded on the xjae of -, Christianity, arid ; while it remained pure. It was again **discStded^ when a revived and a reformed Ohristianity.Vas • given to the world at the period of the;Refo*riria- ; tion; every reformed Church; nveri that'or"^England, casting it forth as an urieleah thirifc *B may .be found m her ''Hpmily of the PW:and - Time of Prayer, part II »in which a 'woffim ? i* "repi-V sented as saying^ her neighbor,**: "Mat J ah"ali* we now do at ; church, since , all .the' Saints 'are* &M naw $r> sinee we.cannot hear the like pipingf S*"L S ' an t^WPg;'up6n ! the: -oianri A that Wecouid before *s■ fTo thisf'qhes&oti W answeris,;giv^ as follows : r -l« Dearly,^belovedf WJSffig -S»a%ttQ jejoice,;;arid to give" 1 thanks to God. that our Churches are* deli v^rejJ'frdrnUll ; thpse thingß,which:displeasedJGodrsso ; .sore r Arid ' filthdy defiled His holy place, and His House of: Prayer. -Id laying th e -foundatiou of the work spoknpof by Mr Will, the Reformers special!? - •^ccluded instrumental music, aa Jewish arid Popish-^-as « Christiana,^ they refected'itllcaus^ .it Was the former -; 4s ]'* Ro^Xntsj? "*theyW ■jected.it because, it. wa? thektter. AXlddnhli going bacVi, rMr^Will^^^S^. ithu time^of day he wottld?give?'to ■sueh t raMbic a Mr Will calls progress !— lnm } *'&c,. yA'AA'A*Z™A 'VommsiMsTrA. '