DR. HOSKING'S SERMON.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 302, 16 June 1898, Page 3

DR. HOSKING'S SERMON.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The Christian is taught that, however much men may differ from him in opinion of faith, he is bound to seek their good. Further, that however much they may oppose themselves to him in his most cherished convictions, so far from seeking to crush or to abuse them, it is his duty to cultivate the feelings of the tenderest charity towards them. Nothing stands out more prominent, distinct, and clearly defined in the teaching and example of our Lord than this. And is it not sad, even in the present age of enlightenment, to mark the censoriousness or to hear the sharp invectives with which our professed Christian bother often assails another. How often is the Master thus " wounded in the house of His friends," and His enemies permitted to triumph. This spirit was strikingly exemplified in the utterances of Doctor Hosking from the pulpit of the Cambridge Wesleyan • Church on Sunday week on the Sabbath question, That the doctor belongs to the narrow-minded class of thinkers who can see nothing good beyond their own circle was clearly demonstrated on that occasion. Your correspondent hit the nail on the head—which he generally does in all matters, when he stated in his wire, that the doctor used the coarsest expressions ever heard from the pulpit, The doctor, in order to cover a multitude of sins and mistakes, hurried back to Hamilton, and wrote out an entirely different sermon, adding a tremendous bulk of other matter, Scripture, texts, etc., which changed the whole tenor of the original one, as delivered at Cambridge. lam informed that the doctor compared the Sabbatarians to a decomposed carcase from the pulpit on Sunday morning at Hamilton. This statement is quite in accord with his unmanly utterances. The fact of the matter is, the doctor has been shamefully licked, theologically whipped by the diminutive Steed, and lie has absolutely relinquished all thoughts of sermoning on the Sabbath question. In conclusion, let me say I am sorry that any minister, and especially " a full-blown Doctor of Divinity," could allow him.self to drift so far from the anchorage - ground of justice. Apologizing for thus trespassing on your valuable space. —1 am, etc., Jerome.