Old Mumble on "Communication No. 2"

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 36, 1 September 1888, Page 2

Old Mumble on " Communication No. 2"

''Communication No/ 2" is chiefly a chapter of errors asio Old Mumble's meaning, in nearly every instance it being misconstrued or misunderstood; - As to "-all around us claiming to be Chri»tians n -^iny point is ; that "the general p ublic" : do ; therefore/ where does the dintinctiori 'mad^^cotfie ,ihT ; : >■ whereas, these who" do not claim this ' would, not.; have the ** sympathy,'. '^'Z.' f erred to. I am made-, to-. rKeaspr. .a*-,. judicious advertising" ; but I never*-, > did it.. OE praised the thing. No. 2 admits there is, _" no means qlpdyertising sa effective as printer!^ ink," which was yexactly . what/ .-.;£. . said. "What can jbe his motive ior p]bj«ic_ing to a church advertising ita meetings ?— This; is wrong again, ..for ; rather commended it, and.shpwdit* good result. As' to *' understanding" 0 a demonstration,, I never referred ;te ; such a thing ; ■ but, to believing vit, which ia & yeTyydiSeveviiyui^BT.r: "That an Jopinion pis* ex-traordinary should not cause it to be condemned,? — So say I, unless so extraordinary : asto be utterly at variance, .with physiol- . ogical, scientific, historical, even biblical facts, which Mr i | > Qng , &' ; notion about the "fiery iriterior"*of the worlp. is; and, bear in , mind, he was emphatic in his assertion. tbat ifc referred to something whioh had acta- ;: ally occurred in - history, OErgbj 7 » „ man living in the "fie^riutierior of [ this world" held a conversation with ; another man in some * other" world, ii an historical fact; au.d;we;are;,b§und. ;. to believe it because Mr Eorion^g says so. And, mind, he does hot give it as an "opinion," but speaks esp cathedra. on the point of his *' histpncalnessj? as he does on most subject-, yAs -to " , ; my offering to bring; twenty texts toy support tho ,." Reign of Grace" fbr Mr A a Furlong's" <>ne " against :' it,^i never r ,; said; such a thing asi .it," yy but referred solely to thisi .'* fiery ih- '.'interior", business,' especially withrefer^ ence to Mr Eorlong's '* historical; fact" about it ; and I shall 'not with- / draw the challenge!. OJiiat another touch on that wonderful; story about "JJ"' the French parsbn.— :No. 2 siays : "Mr : Forlong did not tell the tale as he Oy hoard it" I'm sorry foirthat, because 0 I had credited him wlfh having re- ll lated the circumstance as the man : : himself told him. "Who then is the reflector on " Mr, known veracity ?" Certailil^fioi ••' 1 ' ;.jG^. r MuM_-___.- . .0