CENOTAPH AND CROSS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5444, 5 July 1929, Page 2

CENOTAPH AND CROSS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,--Father Taylor, replying to my appealing and conciliatory contribution on the above subject, did not scruple in the choice of terms he used in answering a “point” not contained in my letter—but a creation of his reverence’s imaginative mind. Father Taylor distressingly declared that it was tiring to point out the not-over-whelming difficulties of the question (so raised by me, I suppose). He further says that the matter is so self-evident that., it is only a person of my particular and peculiar mental calibre that would be so foolish as to refer even to a phase of a matter of this kind. I would like to point out that I made no reference to religion nor raised any question as to whether or not the cross should appear on the cenotaph. I merely marvelled exceedingly at the undignified spectacle of two Christian leaders glaring at each other with the cenotaph between them. It is unfortunate that his reverence should seek to credit me with statements I did not make. With regard to my venting an “ugly gibe,” my reverend friend does me an injustice. I assure him such an act is wholly foreign to my nature and sense of fair play. Indeed, I have searched through the published matter in the “Gazette” wherein I may have inadvertently offended, but I searched in vain. Father Taylor says the question raised by the Rev. Lowden was not one involving the exercise of charity. Very probably not, so far as the Rev. Lowden and Father Taylor were concerned, but since I am forced into the argument I must (disagree, and say that had the question at issue been treated in a more charitable spirit and less barbed compliments the needless splashing of so much ink would have been avoided. W. H. TAYLOR, Hill Street. Paeroa, July 5, 1929.