RENUNCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 6

RENUNCIATION.

"A GLINT SOUL."

/"If .the book ;3wasv before m'o.;'noV;-,\nth.'my'':signa'Wfe' .beneath -.the.'. ' vows,';:: I; broad-nbsed/ j ■pen',' ; could.not '■, ..remarks: Rev. J. It. G',"-'Chappie',' in'the Timaru "Post,"' ( in'referenced to charges; brought -: against; him by ; tho. Presbytcrian'rfAssembly, "Tobo candid,'l ;would not, ori'o,hy):'considoi'ationhv.hat«ver;;"'on'' , ,npx(;' ° (tho /(lay .when■;his',ca^| : is^to. ■ :thp:vkirtd; againVhot" even' .to'.. 'wife; family} or.anythinß ; :e!se;V, Yetj,;at :th.b~.timß'<6f signing .the vowsi' it was .true-; to' me' ; thon and .tho'act. sincere. :'Now itwould not; be, ■..In. a few; years, avhen; that wretched" and j .immoraV_,demand, and condition .is'deleted;;from ;.the,,, ; Presbytcrianl /-someone .think';'; of: nic'. Through v'tllis'.'i'etiilesti'" iifado,'.at .'/ordina r '. tipns, ,we .haveV.'npw; n ? Church-'v.'honcy-combed' with men 'who Trii'i nco and "prance, equivocate,", cough, sneeze,.;', amble,'•'.• so-', phisticnte,,and lie liko:troopers; to: save ; themselves,: and. their,livings'. The Church, is 'reeking,:.,wi.th' Intellectual; dishonesty, compromising ".'and..expediency; and ~ my-, heart just: aches;.for.; .Tuesday. ■ AVminisr torVcan;,.believe...what ;,ho.'likes, .in the Chnrch,' provided .'.'he /keeps -liis.'. -mouth 6flut, -or at least deals out .his heresy from the pulpit in judicious homeopathic doses.". Now; that 1 have chosen .to', act' otherwise, and hit; the i and the religious community, of South! Can-; .terbury on the top. of tho skull with:'.- a: bludgeon,. I. know the result, and ..so'; do '■ they.'. Ami less honest for this procedure: than the. expedient • heretic ? havo a'family of thirteen; and if. they were all young men looking for. a. vocation ;in. life,. not one, with;:my influence, or'/consent,: would go into, the Church. Why? Simply; because. I' want them, to'• bo honest ;.'and : true men.- ■■■'■. . .-Can ,no sensible mansee that in these days' of fast-progressing knowledge there must of necessity-bo an ever-expanding .thought and; an. evolution and. unfolding'that cannot bo cramped within a'* creed ? The" ohargo of. inconsistency and vow-breaking rather pleases me. I am' in good company. ■ Let,us see what Ealph Waldo Emerson says on the subject. . '.-•'.. Yes, Inm uproariously inconsistent, and in good company. ■ It is the'glint of God in my soul that places me beyond. consistency. ..." '■• .-•■ . , '■,;