THEOLOGICAL AMENITIES.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 116, 2 December 1882, Page 179

THEOLOGICAL AMENITIES.

The pitiful bigots who have been so strongly Seised in spirit over Bishop Cowie's alleged wtures to Bishop Luck in re the presentation J>tiie memorable bouquet are now utterly conJnuled 'by the. discovery that it was not the jj&op at all who sent the present but simply two *% domestics who happen to be Roman polics. And so a rancorous discussion in the hums of the Herald, a special sermon by the Thomas Spurgeon on " The Unholy and four or five columns of drivelling in the Free Press have all proceeded upon 'filse issue ! The whole affair is an admirable j|Btftaioi3 of the force of Hood's lament — ■ ' " Alas I for the rarity i ;s Of Cliristian charity ■ '■•;"* Under the sun." to Juillr^nir'.m must surely be far off when the |&of one section ot the professed followers of ™st whose Grospel ispre-eii.i" ?ntl/ uno of peace cannot show bis brotherly feeling *^rds the head of another powerful section incurring the hostility ■ ■>< . l,i s j] O ck the subject of . i^.;... s l! .vo abure. k 6 . ato^in' in a teapot ser •■ ■.., ... snow hoy, r i^ly-'ihc odium theologioum as ierts ' itself in '^I'eafcts of cae evangelicai portion of Profjjhb OlirisUanifcy. Their fervour failing a vent I'BTivaliEtic excitement must perforce stimulate to aggressive measures against the Supposed of the Church, i.e., infidels en.d Eoman j£ j fj worthy of remark fcbi.'fc since the Z^afcion was published f not .one of the cavillers have had the manliness to ■**Hlie amende honorable to Bishcfp Oowie. •