ENOCH CRITICISED.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2497, 6 January 1877, Page 2

ENOCH CRITICISED.

(To the Editor of the Evening 9Uri) ' Sib, —Whenever differences of opinion ,< have arisen amongjus, and the contro*; versy has been maintained through, the medium of the Press, the example! are exceptional in which mean advantages hare been taken of social position, or any other accidental circumstance to attack an ' opponent's characterand opinions. Within the last year or so, however, a periodical has occasionally been issued, startling the thoughtful with its speculative absurdities aud blatant dogmatism. Professing and assuming a prophetic character,., the editor of Enoch, while promulgating his own peculiar religious notions, and interpretations of the mystic portions of Holy ; Writ, offensively questions the'doctrines ""' and characters of all who differ from him. • With a clumsy imitation of scriptural.expression he endeavours in vain to render his denunciations solemn and effective. " Yea," he fails even to extract the small sum of his Josses (on the publication of Enoch) from the pockets of ghe faithful few. He preaches the near approach of the Millennium, and pitifully laments that little matter of £16 sterling; inveighs against the increasing sinrulness orcity life, and the religious, social and political, corruption of the whole world; exclaims with the prophet, " Vanity, all is vanity!" and does a little mammon worship in a quiet way of his own, just to show he is not absolutely indifferent to the ways of this wicked world. . Then; again, his pride, which is not exactly holy, but smacks of the Pharisee, and I illustrate my meaning by referring the curious to that marriage announcement, and ;the doggrel ode— "Written expressly for the occasion. Home papers please copy." " Tea, verily," there is no pride about that. His charily is equally conspicuous,! All < men are liars and false teachers. Bene* volentand Masonic societies are-just, so many "infernal" traps to catch the souls of men; Ministers of. all religions, but his own, are simply agents of the devil, or Antichrist, while'he and a certain re* tailerof drugs are the only living wit* nesses of the truth. They alone are. selected to proclaim " the Gospel of j&^t. coming kingdom," and Enoch is their medium (vide notice therein). Nowisir, no one. possessed of a graiu of common sense cares a rap about' such ravings, but let their author be fairly honest in his criticism; allow to others the .same , liberty of opinion he usurps for himself } acknowledge that after all he is but an ignorant man travelling through the world like all the rest, in the best way he can; and that an immense deal of talent and honest religion, of which he knows nothing, and therefore cannot appreciate, exist beyond the narrow limit of that spiritual circle of which he has constituted himself the centre.—l am, Ac, BOANBBGES.