CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 123, 26 May 1877, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To THE EdIXOB OP THE 'EVENING MAIL.' Sib,— l noticed in your paper of last evening a paragraph, inserted I suppose with a view to the amusement of a certain class of readers, containing a silly play upon a verse of M Hold the Fort." This alone would be of small importance, but the object of the whole is evidently to ridicule what are termed revival meetings, and make merriment o_it of conviction for sin. Would it nofc be well to consider that to a large proportion of your readers amusement drawn from such a source must be objectionable in the extreme? The community, generally speaking, profess to be Christians, and even though the profession may be to a large extent formal and external, there is respect for our religion and reverence of its founder. Now the Lord Jesu3 Christ distinctly declares tbat conviction pf sin is the work of the Holy Spirit of God; can we then hold up His work to 'ridicule: and .still maintain our Christian profession?— l am, &c„ F. J. JEFEBEYa. Nelson; May 26, 1877.

[We can assure our correspondent tbat whatever may have been the spirit in which the paragraph of which he complains was written for a Melbourne leading journal, that in which we inserted it wes not such as he appears to attribute to us. Unfortunately, perhaps, for ourselves, we are no. acquainted with the word 3of " Hold the Fort," and consequently know nothing of those which precede and follow the line quoted. We looked upon tbe offending paragraph as an amusing report of an amusing scene, and nothing more. — Ed. _V.is.__f.] B