The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-11 00:00:00

MR. MAGINNIS AND THE IRISH CHURCH.
To the Le'Nor of the " Ohsereer."

Ste,—Mr. King, after haying left Mr. flalladay's
charge against Mr. Maginnia uneontradieted for more
than a week, now denies that Mr. Maginnis mentioned
the parishes of eiranard and Columlikill at all in his lec-
ture. Mr. Hails lay, on the other hand, is positive he
did name them, and made the statement about them
which Mr. King now denies. Mr. King, in his letter to
me of the ttti June last, did not deny Halladay•s asser-
tion that the lecturer mentioned these parishes, and
male a statement about them : but now he asserts that
the lecturer did not sneak of them at all. If Mr. King
Is so confident upon this point, why did he not contras
diet Halladay's assertion at once, and not reserve his
tardy denial till now:' He admita that he did not bear
Halladay contradict the lecturer, and did not see hire
thereupon forcibly expelled from the rosin. If all this
eseaped hit notice, might not the mention of these par-
lams also pass unnoticed by him? Taking all the at.
tenddnt circumstances into consideration, moat people
who knod both parties will require stronger evidence
than Mr. King's mere denial before they disbelieve Mr.
Palladarg statement.
Mr. iLlnia stale icniarks and prophecies abut the
Irish Church are worthy of but little notice. That 'tort
of talk may
he uarrouness of the %lows of thoVa
proves nothing but t
indulging in it.
anme the r,ters of the Radical press, lad
-I him to aid ma
In my first letter to Mr. King T limb.—
^,turer
in investigating the statements made by the
I about other places besides the above, which we had rea•
son to think untrue, either wholly or in part. Instead of
accepting my alter, he now decline. any fnrtber corres-
pondence upon the above or any other anlojeet. If the
atatenients made are true, why shirk investigation ; but
if they are esaggerated or Untrue, all can admire Mr.
King's discretion in declining to aid in al,wing their
real worth.

Mr. king suggests a perusal of " Irish Church Eolith.
lishinents," by Sir John tiray, which, he says, gives its.
tidies not, as far as he can learn, disputed. This
sentence shows bow little he really knows about this
matter.

I gentleman of high position In Ireland, in a letter
I received front him this morning, says:—" Your Imo.
meg information has no doubt been derived from the
report of a Commissioner employed by a Radical paper
in Dublin. the ternioa'. This report hao again
and tgain been convicted of the gr. saest exaggeration'
and misrepresentations. To expose these in detail would
require continual reference to Captain Starkpool's return
to Parliament of statistics of the Irish Church."
The Rev. J. W. Green, Rector of Granard, in a letter
of the 10t inst, speaks init as strongly of the untruthful.
nes" of Sir J. Gray's book.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES OETHING.

T, Blitor of tke "Obserrer."

Sim—Pray be so good ae to insert in your next inns
the following extract from that excellent and cheap ho-
testant newspaper, the Eocl..
I am, Sir, yours truly,
A. ROGER, B.A.
Longlands, 7th July 1.8613.

" To those of our Dissenting readers who have been
deceived by the misstatements of the Liberationists, into
the belief that the Cloud. in Ireland Inis done and is
doing nothing towards staying the plague of Popery in
that unhappy corner of the empire, we submit the follow.
sag figures, relating to only one branch of Church wnrk :
—The Society for Irish Church Missions has raised
within the last nineteen years for exclusively Church
work in Ireland. £193,00J, or nearly half -a-million. The
operations of this society have been curried on entirely
through the machinery of the Established Church, and
by means of the clergy in those parishes where the he-
ciesiastisal revenues were small and the number of Pro-
testants comparatively few In addition to the alsoies
quoted suns, spent by the Irish Church Mission Society
in maintaining missionaries and teachers, it has been
the means of erecting, with funds especially raised for
the purpose, 18 churches, 8
parsonages. 7 orphan's"
and 30 school-houses. It maintains at this date 54 Sun-
day-schools and 86 week-day schools, with an attendance
of 8,172 scholars. The missionary agency numbers 310,
which comprises 3 ordained clergymen, 225 trained
agents, Scripture-readers, schoolmasters and mistresses,
and 160 inferior agents employed in teaching texts of
Scripture. Two hundred Sunday and 113 week-day ser-
vices are held during each month, attended by iiggregate
congregations of 25.600. During each month the Scrip.
true readers make about 0.70 visits, visiting in the ag-
gregate upwards of 23,700 persons,— Mt Ruck, of 30,11
June, 1868.

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