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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3642, 28 August 1880, Page 4

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Biß,—Mr Horn has been very voluble in his reply to my comment on his last. I have searched it in vain for aught relevant. He made an assertion, I denied its truth, and now he replies with a column of matter which •is entirely foreign to the subject, with one exception, (?) and that is a reiteration of his former assertion; and as I have no desire to play at the game of,—it is—it isn't — with Mr Horn, " I pass," but with your X mission will notice this other just a tie. He starts out with—"The best way to treat those that differ with us in religious matters is with courtesy and kindness," and before he gets half way through he branches off into calling them names ("poor blind atheist") and pitying them. If this is his kindness, I wonder what his incivility and inhumanity are like v Oh dear lit is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong (!) He asks me how I can disprove, that man can commune with God and angels and' saints; and then he sayshe knows I can't do it! O, do ask me something easier ? He says I might ask him to prove it, and his answer is that he knows it; and if that is proof, then the disproof from the same mind would be,—"he doesn't." But allow me to inform Mr Horn that he has no right to put me such a question, as I have certainly not given him to understand that I am on the side be rashly puts me. If be said that a crow was black, and .1 told him I believed it to be white as all my experience taught me so, would he for that thenceforth stick me in a rookery P Yet this is the. sample of injustice he has done me unwittingly no doubt, and had it. not been for which I should not have thus trespassed on your spibe. In conclusion I may say I am open to defend any opinion I may have of religion, either publicly or privately, but not with anything that smells of street-corner-howlipm. I ask not to shut the mouth even of an ass, but I hare no wish to bray with it.—l am, &c., James Simpson. 24th August, 1880.