QUASI-RELIGION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 93, 8 April 1908, Page 4

QUASI-RELIGION.

To the Editor. JNiy-lt appears to many of us who have canvassed the question that tllcre is an immeasurable difference between religious instruction and boodle-hunting. You seem to liave jiivfii a glial deal of undue prominence to a seeker slier tiie shekels Hhu is now in the town—for what iviimjii 1 do not know. From time to time iberc takes pkiee an upheaval of evangelism—in many instances they have hecn fictitious, simply catch-penny ventures. Have we not an instance of the latter with us at present r There are some among us who will querv this, hut that does not matter, a» they do not represent the majority of those' who sit on the fence and think. ll' the socalled lectures, addresses, or whatever you like lu term them, were given in a church of chapel. ils k yourself what number would lake' sufficient interest to attend. I have conversed with many on this matter, and thov, with mv,clf, 'have concluded that the whole thing is simply a series of quasi-religious addresses formulated for the purpose of realising money.— 1 am, etc., LUX. [Before publishing the above we made enquiries regarding the l!ev. Mr. Flanagan, work. We are assured that the missioner has no monetary interest whatever in the mission. It matters not to him whether he preaches to ten people or ten. thousand. He is paid tinsalary of a Primitive Methodist minister and Ins expenses. This amount ha-! to he guaranteed by Un- X ow x,„] iUul connexion. Had there been anv profit on the mission, the money would have been applied to mission 'work in the Dominion. As it is, however, there is at present ; , f.|j,.|y considerable cash h»* as titr us X,.w Plymouth is concerned. -Lux" is therefore a little astray i n hi-, conclu-ions. -Ed.]