CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 22 July 1882, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

. (Tp the Editor of the Daily.) Sir—Your correspondent " Visitor,'' ■ in the usual bigoted style that characterises such gentry, deplores the presence of certain pamphlets on the Institute table, which he terms gross attacks on the Bible. The,papers, in question are a series of very ,:able.oomments on the Bible, written by . that, celebrated geological lecturer Professor William Denton, one of the greatest men of the present day. " Visitor" asks in. a tone of pious hoiror" Can it be possible that the committee sanction such a thing 1" Allow, mo to inform " Visitor" (if ha really is a visitor to our I o wnfillip) thr»t the committee who manatre the affairs of the Institute are men with brains arid common sense, who know the-read- . ing room is used by persons of all shades nf opinion; -and they all have a rightlo a Bhare of the literature that suits them, We never hear of any non-religious member complaining when the tables jiave been strewed with tracts of tho " What must we do to be saved" type, as they often have been, and was that not equally an attempt on the part of whoever put them there to " foist his opiuion (in the minds of some very trashy) on religious •• • mait«f a public Institute ?" T1 contained in the last pari' h that obscene literature would be foi \ hioment tolerated.in the reading rot... > simply a gross insult on the comnjittet 'and the frequenters of the room./ , I am, i-c., . .. Fair PLAY,