A REPLY.

Evening Star, Issue 3933, 2 October 1875, Page 3

A REPLY.

To f/y FdKor, Sip.,—Veiled by t! so modest /h>in i.ti'. jiJ'.h.'i <■l “ A. rhri.-dun,” your correspondent has i-fi-lo l ruo in my capacity as a tracluT <-f .youth. Had he referred to mo ns a private ins'iivitlnal I should not have trouble 1 you with a r- ply ; hut since his indignant effusion is o dcidated to injure me in my public relations, and is moreover aimed, through me. at the (./biiren, I feel reluctantly compelled to notice it. 1 eiurit inn to observe, for (he sati?faction of suen ct your reader.! as may feel interests .1 in the m at : cr, that my f ol .„:er letter was mt ndcd to free me from a certain im putatioii conveyed in your icport of my !<■<;- turn, and that I did not employ the t< rm ‘ disserting iirnister ” in any invidious or with any intention of wounding the feelim K of any peivon or persons in the community i/asslug over the t o ; nts of 11 A Christian’sprosy “ discourse,” 1 would request your read era to jud-.-o for themselves whether' any remarks in my communication of Saturday last can lie fairly con trued as “insulting” jlideed /i paragraph was omitted by you in inserting my letter which expressed my pain at

being represented as attacking ministers of reiglon, and I can assure “ A Christian ” that under that term I included all [without distinc don of creed or foim of worship) who “go ibout doing good.” My tolerance ip i eihap.c no less broad than my assailant's ; and I certainly trust I shall never fall into the habit (ru-her a strange one for a “Christian”) of making a ferocious attack upon anyone under a pseudonym, even bo pretentious as hi°. I fancy ho enus of “gratuitous insult” Ho? with your correspondent, who strives to fix upon me a totally unfounded charge.—l am, sir, Ac , James Kibby, Dunedin, October 2.