TASTOR CHINIQUY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 227, 22 January 1880, Page 3

TASTOR CHINIQUY.

A Wellington paper says til its valiant and venerable advocate of Truth and freedom arrived safely in Auckland rli the morning of r J uesday, 30th n’t’Tno. He received a suitable and a hearty welcome in the Chora] -Flail cn the afternoon of the same day. •As cxpVned by himself, in replying to the addresses } resented to him in the Choral Hall, the object of ids mission is twofold. It is, in "the (list place, to jpointout wliat lie conceives to be the •errors of Vue Human Catnolic Church ; and in the second, to raise funds for the support and education of the priests and yr ung un n who have left the Church o Home, placed themselves under his directu n, and are being educated for the Work of the Christian ministry in a college built and set apart fur that j impose. In Australia he lias been Very successful in his mission, and lie -comes to cm shores very much encouraged by the results which have followed his efforts to do good in Australia, and to get good for his college in Montreal. His arrival in New Zealand could not have been more opportune in the interests of his mission. The minds of all right thinking men have been roused to indignation by the disgraceful scenes witnessed at Christchurch and Tim tu last week, when a premeditated and regularly organised attack was male- by a large crowd of Roman Catholics upon a mere handful of Orangemen. Had the numbers been at all equal one’s feelings of manliness would not have been so offended ; but when we find—--las was cab nlated to he the ease in Timaru —400 to 500 E«man Catholics attack 40 or 50 Orangemen with malice aforethought, and with no greater provocation than that of the Orangemen •marching t rougi the town in their 'distinctive regalia—it is surely time t<>

I I'M! our eyes to tin-necessity of being «’w:;vs on the d. f nsive. 15( cause of sS,lhe V 1 V( *T cta^*-( ' Winf? liherpl character of the Roman vt atliolics in our midst, many Protestants wou’d hav- ten gad if Pastor t’hinbjuy }.ad left N.v Zetland 01P of his programme. hut, in ti e light of n cent events, his utterances will he rend an 1 pondered hy all. We are erne the great body of Protestants depreciate any increase of party feeling as the outcome -of Pastor Chiniquy’s lectu.es ; hip reasonable Roman Catholics v ill accord to tiim the same liberty of speech that they claim fir the advocats of their religion. He wan publicly maligned and" his characterwas very much traduced bv Father Henneberry during his mission

in Auckland. |lf he now defends himself hy giving as publicly his reasons tor - leaving (he Church of Rome, he simply .claims the right to speak as freely and ■with as much authority as his traducer We trust that will he accorded to him and that his visit will be productive of good without disturbing those pleasant ard harmonious relations that extensively exist between the Protestarts and Roman Catholics of New Zealand.