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NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 5

Taranaki '""'Hetald' y ' reported recently, that ''there I . were nearly forty persons (mffstly women) ; present" at a riieeting called under the auspices of tlie : 'Foreign: Society. Parson Gsbprrie has written to correct the paper. "There were twelve men and thirty-six women at tlie meeting, or under -fifty' persons, ' v he explains; m tones of shocked expoi&trilation-. "It seems to trie a most deplorable matter/ he writer "that m a town of say 0000 i a i arge proportion of-.w^jtri profess • to be believers m tlie divinity and inspiration of Holy Scripture, and who are partakers of the benefits of our Christian civilisation; less than one per cent, of the people are sufliciently interested m the circulation of the Word of God to attend a meeting of a great society which exists for that object." Osbbrne lias made a mistake ; the crowd doesn't object to the Holy y Word, it objects to the boundcfs. (Osbprrie; for example) who traue upon the' alleged Word of the Alrnj>lity.'- r - : A4i'yw-ay, Oshorne is a fool to give away' the weakness of his sliow 1 . If there is anythmn; the vrowvl Hates to be associated with it is a failure. '