A SINGULAR FAITH.
Au cxfraordiuaiy colloquy (wc loam from the ‘Wanganui Chronicle’) took the Wanganui [Resident Magistrate’s Court the other clay, before the Mayor and Colonel M'Doiinell, J.P. Mr Barnicoat, a solicitor, wished to examine a Chinaman, who was called as a witness in a perjury case, as to the nature of an oath, and the following conversation took place : —Question — What are you ? Answer—l am a Christian. Question —Who was Christ ? Answer —He lives in Nelson, but I don’t know his other name. Question— Where will you go when you die ? (Here Colonel M'Dounell remarked that the Chinaman was not in a position to answer such a question; he, the Colonel, could hardly say where any of us would go.) The question was not pressed, and the examination proceeded. Question —Do you believe in God P Answer—yes. Question —What will be done to you if you tell a lie. Answer—God won’t let me tell a lie. Question —What Church do you’go to? Answer—Sometimes to the English Church, when I have got time. Notwithstanding the novel theological views of the Chinaman, he was sworn in the usual way and allowed to give evidence.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2092, 5 December 1879, Page 3
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193A SINGULAR FAITH. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2092, 5 December 1879, Page 3
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