DR. HENRY'S "TIRADE" AT WAIHI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 5

DR. HENRY'S "TIRADE" AT WAIHI.

HIS CHALLENGED. ; Association.) .' ■ : TTT-L, '', "v ''■■■'■■ Waihi, October 24. ' .With reference .to a.Press 'Association message from Wanganui, stating that Dr./ Henry's, explanation put a totally different complexion on his final -address at_ .Waihi, •as •-.reported -.■; throughout the colony,,; the. "Daily "/Telegraph" ■ says:- ■_ The report,. which originally appeared m ; this paper,;, and has- been published throughout the colony; was of an ordinand the;,tirade indulged in by the missioned towards the close of the service, and addressed to those retaining their seats when .the:invitation was given to .stand np, was taken from verbatim notes. It-was absolutely, correct; and surprise will be felt by all who attended the meeting at tho attitude of the miseioner in challenging his own words.": EEJOINDERBY DB. HENRY. ' T ' "".'"" '••' v Wanganui, October 24.' „Jp reference 'to the 'foregoing, a _ Wanganui Chronicle"■•reporter to-night interviewed' Dr. Henry, who said ' that Jib had. already given his-■"answer,'.'and was no t prepared to enter ■ into a further controversy.'. His : reply, .as previously given;; was that the newspaper report was distorted, and fundamentally untrue.' Jor example, a statement Was made that ■5? r ? •l v , er9 ,.°" t on e hundred-confessions of faith - during the mission, whereas there were nearly, if • not o_uito, three hunared. "Then," said Dr. Henry, "I am credited with using. the word 'skiink' —a word I have never used 'in thA pulpit in -my. thirty years' ministry! What ..I did say. was this (speaking of people who were dying in Cowards' Castle): .'lou men don't have the moral courage of your convictions, and are 'afraid to face either the- truth or Jesus Christ.- You are skulking behind the Cross dike spiritual shirks.' In referring to the matter, of moral courage, I used an illustration from Dr. Torrey's work in China, when, after delivering an address on.'How; to Become a Child of God,'- he concluded by saying that every man was either a child of <God or a child of the devil, and that we are not children of the devil, first by choosing,and then by confessing, Christ. At tho close of his message, one hundred and fifty Chinamen went into the 'inquiry room, and Dr. Torrey, through an interpreter, asked them •• why they had come,-to which they replied: 'Wo havo come to show our confession' of Christ; that we are children of God, and not the children of the Devil.' Then I said: Tfoumen who have heard the word pro-claimed''-during..-; the mission, but who have refused to be truo, have not as mnch moral courage as those heathen Chinamen.' This, it will bo seen, is entirely different from the statement wired from Waihi' that Dr. Henry had declared people: to bo "spiritual skunks' without the courage of Chinamen,"