RENUNCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 10

RENUNCIATION.

Sir,—Kindly pemit me to put Rev. J. W. G. Cliapplo's grandiloquent abuse, of the Churches in its proper setting. Ho claims.to have been sincere in signing tho vows of the Presbyterian Church. This may be no, but 'I ventured to express a contrary opinion at the time. It fell to my lot, as Moderator of the Missions Station at Eltham, to ordain him as elder that he might perform the duty of homo missionary." I refused to ordain. •'ltiiA. :I said to the Taranaki Presbytery : absolutely refuse:to"lay. my hands on 'tis head, you may do as you like.'" Mr.

Chappie came into tlie Presbyterian Church by what is ltnown among qualified men as" "tho back door." . I strand-. ,'ously opposed: his admission* .bu,t mj efiorts were,in.: vain'against ".the".methods employed, -Iliad information-and opportunities of observation, and my judgment has proved correct. •He claims to be "uproariously inconsistent and in good companyWe grant the "good company." He commenced life .in ; tho English Church.. -He. -gavo;-to me a 'certificate of men)b£rship '.'.\ih;'f,illl:comimjihion with theißaptisbChurch/in England." Ho was an'oltico-bearer- in_:the Salvation Army at the timo ho applied to bo received as a homo missionary in tlie Presbyterian ,Chur6h-'Eour very different ■ Christian drganisatipns,)aud all good oompanj'. for.'anyv-ma'riJ' liufc it requires some elasticity'"of conseienco'for a mail to glide from ono to the other. Only by a man-to whom "changes are lightsome" can 6ilch transitions be made. The average man will reckon such a one to-be glaringly inconsistent. : One .fears* it. is darkness, not light, that places him "beyond conHUTS ON. . Brooklyrij September -18,- iiliJ.