"SKUNKS AND CHINAMEN."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 168, 25 October 1910, Page 5

"SKUNKS AND CHINAMEN."

~i 1 : . - 4 J.R. HENRY EXPLAINS. J By Telegraph.—Press Association ! Wanganui, Last In reference to the telegram Wpi Waihi reiterating the statements by the local paper in its condensed™ port of the missioners' concluding Mj dress in that town, a Chronicle reports to-night interviewed Dr. Henry, who Mm he had already given his answer, am was not prepared to enter into furOra! controversy. His reply, as previougli given, was that the newspaper repo|| was distorted and fundamentally untrtijfi For example, the statement was inatia that there were about one hundred com fessions of faith during the whereas there were nearly, if not three hundred. .3 "Then," said Dr. Henry, "I am credti ited with using the word 'skunk/ .» word I have never used in the pulpit iaj my thirty years' ministry. Wat I didj say was this, in speaking of people whffi were dying in 'Cowards' Castle': Tfoti men don't have the moral courage o|l your convictions, and are afraid to facoj either the truth or Jesus Christ. Youli are skulking behind th/» cross likfel spiritual shirks.' In referring to the mabl tor of moral courage, I used an illustia*!

tion from Dr. Torrey's work in ChinA;3fl when, after delivering an address on hotf|9 to become a child of God, he concludes by saying that every man was either 4.11 child of God or a child of the Devil, that we are not children of the Devil'-'l first by choosing and then by confess" ing Christ. At the close of his message 'h one hundred and fifty Chinamen went into the enquiry room, and Dr. Torrey, through an interpreter, asked them why'-jw they had come; to which they repliedt 'We have come to show by our confes-3 sion of Christ that we are children bf"|| God, and not the children of the Devil.' A® Then I said: 'You men who have heard 1 the word proclaimed during the mission,' rj but also have refused to be true, have .8 not as much moral courage as those 3 heathen Chinamen.'" «

This, it will be seen, is entirely differ- $ ent from the statement wired from i' Waihi that Dr. Henry had declared the *! people to be "spiritual skunks, without S the courage of Chinamen."