MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 November 1910, Page 6

MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY

There are those who say that religion is a "pawky" thing, whatever that may mean; that il, n;akeH a man soft and robs him cit" the inclination even to defend him so II" against insult (nays the Timaiu "Herald.") Bui a little incident which occurred in Timaru the other night when the Anglican mission meeting was being held in the main street of the town put quite a different aspect on the matter. A young man who ought to have known better brushed roughly against the Rev. S. Terriee Adams, actingvicar of St. Mary's (than whom probably there is no more courteous or inoffensive man in Timaru) and deliberately blew tobacco smoke in hi;s face. The rev, gentleman submitted quietly to the insult, but gave the young man to understand that it must not be repeated. Disregarding the caution, however, and with a lack of the sense of decency, the young man deliberately repeated the push and the puff of smoke, with the result that he got the surprise of his life, a3 ho received the same instant a stinging back-hander which made him look more sheepish than could be described by anything on paper. The vicar was warmly applauded by those who saw the incident for his maniy action in dealing so well deserved a rebuke.