AN OPINION.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3691, 23 October 1880, Page 2

AN OPINION.

(To the Editor of ttießvnrnra Biki.) ''- " Go ye out into all the world and preach thcgnml to every creature." ' " ■ " ""* ;l, Sui,—" Bridgets.dream is t weUmerited rebuke to the parsons tad official! of Jhe churches, at the Thames, motto' especially to the " Methodist" family, wh6 are , continually boasting pf.their, exertions to preach the gospel to every creature, and that they have been and are still" growing." Had the Mackay street church followed out the, custom of their connection,, it would have thrown oat branches ere this. The members boast of their Hugh Bourne and William Blowef and their other celebrities, and-of the progress these men made ill founding, oonnectional churches. -The natural inference would be that the Maekay street people after such boasting would follow the example of their founders'. Now, what do we find ? That they are content to worship in a' dimly-lighted, iU*venti* lated church; if a stranger attends 1 he ii jammed into a seat, has to breathe impure air, and no doubt, generally feels relieved; when the benediction is pronounced,'and enabled to get outside r«nd breathe pure. air. How is it that a connection which-' boasts of so much "progress" doesnot attempt to do,something for outlying districts P Why isitefforteannbtmwlft to make the church large enough for the congregation, and in seeking to save souls of men, why attempt to deptroy their health by bad ventilationP ; -Perhaps some of the leading members can answer these questions, or maybe the minister will condescend to explain, fa* as it stands at present it looks something like practice hardly reaching profession.-—I am. &c, Pauc.