THE CHRISTADELPHIAN RELIGION AT HUNTLEY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1410, 16 July 1881, Page 3

THE CHRISTADELPHIAN RELIGION AT HUNTLEY.

TO TUB hIIJTOR. Sir,— Wo always make it a rule, that whoa our religion is attacked to troat such attacks with the contempt they deserve, but when people rush into print about matters ot which they arc totally ignorant, we cannot allow it to piss without notice. Acting on tlm principle when we saw your "Own Correspondent's " account ot our beloved religion, and that he was trying to ridicule it, wo took no notice of it, through possessing the Christian spint which our religion teaches. But the would be correction given in Tuesday's issue, if allowed to pass unnoticed, would appear to have been written by a number of our Church, and would ceitainly make us appear a very silly sect. It certainly appears suppifluous our offering any explanation, as the writer appears to understand the state of his mind, when he signed it •'Craze," as no one but a crazed individual would have had the temerity to write such an article. He states with an air of authoi'ity that our "form of baptism is countenanced by nearly all professing 1 Christians." Now, sir, this J deny. Our Church together with one or two other small sects, are the only ones that consider immersion necessary to cleanse you ; the great majority of other Christians only put water about the head. lip also states that we belieA'e in a ''dreadful hell:" this also tends to mislead. We only believe that those who do not die righteously will not rise again. The last point that I shall take any notice of is his statement that " Christadelphians do not manifest that anxiety for the revision that others do, from the fact that they, as a body, are pretty well acquainted with all possible improvements." From this people would think that we professed to have, infinite iiiuler&tanclmg ; but, sir, ' this is doing us an injustice. We are looking ior the truth, and are hot like 's6me£ who , , call themselves righteous, and, lik r e the i Pharisee of! old,' puffed up •,with**tßcir own importance, thinking that theylcnow everything, and that everbodv is wrong but themselves. You would be doing us a great Jayour, % sir, if ypu woiildj first ,reter sny matters in \srim our Church to us before publication, as, although 'we kl iiia^'" 'sympathise in our Chr'stia%spirit with-j" Craze^" still matters" of this' kind should not be trifled with.— l am, &0., CHBjsi'ADELyHiAN. <