OLD MUMBLE ON MR FORLONS'S "REPLY."

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 40, 11 September 1888, Page 3

OLD MUMBLE ON MR FORLONS'S "REPLY."

TO THE KDITOR OF THE STAR. Sißj—rlt ; can. only be by la greal stretch, of imagination, that Mr For long's letter can . be called a " reply,' It is occupied solely about the mosi immaterial point of my " sharp criticism," and'one mentioned more paren thetically than otherwise; whereas th( main question at issue i$ niost sedu lovely and guardedly avoided. Now for argument's sake, I wilUput Pro iessor Salmond and his theory on on< side, and assume that Mr Forlong ie a better scholar and theologian, as he «eemß tb t think he is, and thus save him that. J>2<jr lie proposes to spend on ■a, discussion, if he will only stick to Jus colors, and undertake to prove, •" to a demonstration," .^nind you, that 41 the location of unbelievers is in the £cry interior of this world" ; that the 4t rich m"^i"^as so- located; and the atory lsvfidt'a parable, but "relates to something whiph actually transpired in history." '-Before making tins concession; however, I will bargain with Mr Forlong that, if he does not carry iiis point, he shair hand jtliat £20 ovei to the Feilding Fire ,3rjgade towards the purchase ,of an engine. This might, "at least, do some good, by helping: to prevent the recurrence of some of those unfortunate "historical facts" we have .experienced about fires on the surface. I have alreadytv?^'challenged Mr. Forlong on the subject ife'ferred to, and ilso on his yarn about the French preacher ; yet, although CtQeBV are the - main points of-my; criticism, he makes not the slightest reference to either in his *' replyir'/^r^have" no doubt thait, to most readers, the reasons for his ail•ence w^lbeite abviqus as they are to ■"■■'■■ ■ *"" Old Mumble!