A DISSENTIENT.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2053, 3 December 1869, Page 2

A DISSENTIENT.

To the Editor of the Eveninq Star

Sin, —In your issue of last evening you state that a Mr Sutherland’s “Urgent appeal to the unsaved,” had undergone a second edition, a v d therefore must be worth reading ; perhaps as a sensational work, it may be ; if a sensation can be “got iqi” on reading a passage or two I quote, viz.:—“ We may be delivered fr m the hands of a violent and bloodthirsty mortal, we may be rescued from the Infernal Spirit himself, but who shall interfere with the Almighty in his work of Justice.” The nature of that justice is explained in another passage—“ The fires q? vengeance rage all around, one avenue is open—it is the descent inlo Hell. Down this burning passage the lost soul is hurried, and the smoke of the pit hides from our view the unutterable horrors which now overwhelm him !” Verily, I thought the material fire aud brimstone pulpit denunciations had ceased with our puritan ancestors, but am sorry the nineteenth century should have to listen to their antiquated‘reverberations.—Yours, &c , Justice tempered with Mercy. Dunedin, 3rd Dec,, 1869.