MR BROWN AND HIS LECTURE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3725, 2 December 1880, Page 2

MR BROWN AND HIS LECTURE.

(To the Editor of the EvsNnra STAB.) Sib,—lf ever a community wanted a rousing up upon religious matters it is the Thames, and Mr Brown is the man to rouse it. We an surfeited with creed* dom and all its attendant greed for money, as if money was the grand objeot of the .. Gospel; from day to day, from week to week, from year to year it is money} money! money! The Thames isapoof community and oannot bear this eon. tinaal dram upon its pocket lor money. ' But this is not all. What do you get for •'■ your money P Old and young, men and .'. I women, boys and girls are continually* ' scouring the town for money; but if the ; you got .for your money was unadulterated, it would not so much ' matter, yet the Gospel of God is witfcon|money and without price. Creetldonu howerer, knows nothing of «uijh a oospel, . Everyday facts Drove the assertion. The fact is the Gospel is not preached at the Thames—that is, the pure Gospel of the Holy Scriptures—so that your money is i* a measure wasted, and you,. remain ignorant of Gospel verities. Only fancy

a man like Mr Daries who professes to preach the Gospel, and yet in these days venturing to defend the all but exploded theory of endless torment in the presence of such au able exponent of Scripture as Mr Brown. What a reaiculous figure he cut, and because he could make no hendway against such a man, then of course it was all claptrap that Mr Brown advanced ; well, then, the Bible is clap-trap and Mr Davies is an angel of light. The horror expressed on the countenances of the audience when Mr Brown read Spurgeon's celebrated description of the orthodox hell was a thing to be long remembered, and yet is it possible in this 19th century of preaching and teaching that any man with even common sense can believe in such horrors. It cannot be possible, and the painting of such horrors is only intended as a lever to lift people into sectarianism by acting on their fears. It is to be hoped that Mr Brown will give us seTeral more lectures at the Thames ; he wMI soon fill the Music Hall, and will set the whole religious community thinking and reflecting. The sectarian preachers are incapable of doing that, but that only can do good. Critic.