MR HILL'S TESTIMONIAL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2620, 1 June 1877, Page 2

MR HILL'S TESTIMONIAL.

(To the BcliVor of-thej Evening Star.)

Sic, —In this money-maf ing tow.l it is not veiy wonderful that citizens who leave should have some m?rk of (he esleem in which they are held presented to them, but I cannot see why the tiev. gentleman who is leaving a congregation who aro attached to him for a small handful of people in the neighbourhood of Christcburch (where it is said he riill have a larger income and lest duly than here), can deserve a money testimonial galLered—mark you, not from his own congregation, but solicited from all denominations, including Catholics. If he had really interested himself in the spiritual welfare of the community and of the numerous Presbyterians who never go to any church Trom year's end to year's end, there:;would: have been some sense in it, or in visicing the aged and sick of the. Hospital. It really seeras to me that the public are rewarding the wrong man. If ho had been like Father-Nivard, who was always like his Divine Mrster going i about-doing good, and whom his fellow ■townsmen delighted to honor with their highest esteem aad respect as well as with a money testimony!, no one would have said a word against it, but would have wished him God-speed. I for one cannot—and I know many Presbyterians who have become thoroughly disgusted "with aim are of the same way of thinking, and are really glad that he is going, in the hope that a pious, true, and worthy clergyman may he appointed in his place, so; as to build iip the Presbyterian Church and God's cause in this town aad_neighborhood. Another eminent townsman lately left us (Mr Severn), who had spent much money and much time in enlightening the public mindinnew scientific truths, and raised considerable sums of money for the benefit of the Mechanics' Institute hertf^floarw^srallowed to leave town without beiog suitably rewarded, which I think was a mistake. In this case the Rev. gentleman barely did his duty, and the other spent all his leisure and spare moneyfor the benefit of the public—l am, &c, :.: •'•■ ■.'" " - ' A Citizen. '? :^