THE SABBATH QUESTION.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 301, 14 June 1898, Page 2

THE SABBATH QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I disclaim all responsibility for the report of the sermon appearing in The Waikato Argus of Saturday last, said to have been preached by me at Cambridge on the previous Sabbath. Evidently the report was hashed up for the purpose of replying to it. The report that appeared in the Waikato Times I stand by ; but The Waikato Argds report is decidedly unfair, Statements arc twisted ; words are suppressed ; facts are distorted. This is all the more to be regretted when I submitted my notes of the sermon to each newspaper. A copy of this letter has been sent to each newspaper office. Further comment is superfluous.—l am, etc., John Hosking. Wesleyan Parsonage. Hamilton, 13th June, 189 S. [The report was furnished to us by our Cambridge correspondent, and was transcribed from full short hand notes. Ed. W.A.] TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Dr. Hosking last Sunday morning, from the pulpit of the Hamilton Weslcyan Church, disclaimed the sermon you published last Saturday, the 11th of Jiine. I wish. to state that I heard him preach that sermon on Sunday night, sth instant, at the service held at 7 o'clock in the Wesleyan Church, Cambridge, aud that your report is a faithful representation of what was said by the Doctor on that occasion, re " the change of the Sabbath " —Yours, etc., J. C. Hobbs. Tauwhare, June 13th, 1898. Our Cambridge correspondent writes : The sermon printed in the supplement issued with the Waikato Times on Saturday is, I atn told, not at all like the one preached in the Wesleyau Church here. It was evidently printed from notes supplied by the doctor, and that worthy gentleman must have forgotten a great portion of them when he was delivering the sermon, for I am told there are about fifty portions of Scripture referred to in the sermon as printed which he did not even mention in St. Paul's Church. I believe no less than three or four lots of ehorthand notes were taken ot the sermon, so it should not be difficult to prove who is conect.