REV. B. HUTSON.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 928, 22 September 1910, Page 6

REV. B. HUTSON.

:' Sir,—ln' your issue; this morning, - undev tlie above heading, a letter appeare 'signed. by "Reader."" When l a personal- attack is. made under a: nom do plume most readers (juickly - size the' writer. V But- the: purpose. is served to some extent, 7 :especially among the unthinking. / In this; case', an 'answer seems: to be\prudent.; "Header" does not know, "the. whole etc." He. ''knows■ nothing about, it. 1 ♦Evidently •. he': confounds 1 tho \ordination as an elder with: the ordination; as a. He. also, does not know"how. and: when 1 Jlr. Chapplo was admitted to tho : l'resliyterian Chiu-ch. ■ 'The ;how. and-the ; wh'en I do know. The- writer evidently 'thinks it was': tho : Taranaki ■ : Presbytery' who recoived him into they Church: He': was received by the General Assembly:' before', the Tiranati'; Presbytery existed. The .back door business can: bo - substan-' ■ tiated' by'coniwaring the records of the Wangahuh/Presbytery' and of tho .Goneral -Assembly, ,1901. It .was at .'New Plymouth, after "the '/Taranaki: Presbytery ,was formed, that I .refused. to ordain to the eldership.: 1 Regarding 1 belonging to: other. Churches, ."Reader,": with. ; his usual. density,..'generally;-caused by. obstinacy: fails to, see. the point- A' man may change and be quite conscientious;.; When a man 1 makes frequent changes,' and - then makes sweeping, accusations, ; as:MK ; ,Ghapple did against the-.-miiusters; of 'the - 'Oburolv ; he intends to leave,; the 'case 'is different.-'.

110 writes:. "In reference to himself, it was understood at the time,-etc." A safe n'ay . of.;. trying' to/damage' a' man's reputation,' but it .won't,:pass : ;muster. : /No, Mr. 8., the impression you, wish-to, convey to the minds of: the unwary—an.' old trick—isr not. correct./ A fact 'easily.cyerificd .by;-a . reference'.;to "the Wanganui Presbytery's minute-boot, -1895.- ' Mr.; E. "could; «ay a great deal 'more."., No' one him doubts his fecundity, ;bu't. ■accuracy :is of . greater:;: importance. -So fa.r as he has written and, alleged certain things/ I can'.use his'own words; and'if needed substantiate with irrefutable"' evidence, oralanddocumentary,'."l: can .say positively-.that' his statements are inac-: curate, and misleading."—l am, etc., B. HTTTSON. , Brooklyn, September. 21, 1910.• ; 7