SYNODICAL DERATES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 87, 12 April 1875, Page 2

SYNODICAL DERATES.

To THfe Editor oir the 'Evening Mail.' Sir — Wi'l you allow me a short space in your journal partly to express my astonishment that your contemporary should lend itself to the propagation of such effusions as emanated from the pen of " Heathen " in its issue of this morning, and partly to unmusk one With whotn it seems a small matter to ignore the dictates of that "momentous question," truth. "Heathen ji ia very f tinny, flippant, and fulsome, and doubtless there are those who will appreciate such •' husks,'' otherwise one fails to see the object .of a pjubltc : jovmal witli any regard for its reputation publishing such questionable gems, "I th*nlc the All-wise that I at least am honest and « A Heathen.' " I thall not point out the obvious contradictions of this phraße, otherwise tban that it may possibly throw fome lij-ht upon "Heathen's" failing to make "head or tail" of the language ot classically educated men, but piss on to something that needs exposing because of tha medium through which it is circulated. Having claimed the honor of being." honet-t," arid in his letter making statements! that are utterly opposed to the dictates of honesty, I feel that little consideration is due to him. After suffering his fancy to run away with him,' it culminates in the statement of discovering the argument to be " whether or no cei tain agreements should be broken and the trust money retained. No account taken of tho intention of the framers and donors; bit whe her another and not the. obvious meaning could not be wriggled out of it." I, as oite who sat listening most attentively to the debate upon this question, can give the above assertion a most unqualified denial, and further can state that so far from this being the case, not only was ihere evinced the desire to make it do the utmost good possible, but that the intentions bf the "framers and donors" should be. carried out in their integrity. As my object is not to see myself in print, but owing perhap-i to my hetter understanding of the "momen'ous question " truth, and my desire to see it established, I may fay, to "Heathen" he will have the privilege unanswered of being funny to his heart's content at the expense of Yours, &c, R. A.