The Bee-Hive. — 1872-03-16 (London, England)

PILACTICAL RELIGION. To the I,:ditor of the BEE Him  has hum taught in India; &c. that Christians were under a curse, until the 'blood of au itniOceut man had Sosat ihed mad ()gored  as a sacriace, either to appease and satisfy the wrath and justice, or to propitiate the favor of an offended Deity; and that immediately upon the shedding of innocent blood their curse was removed, in some mysterious way, when they professed to believe that God had received and required this innocent blood to be shed and offered to him as a substitute for their own  Well! In India the natives are suffering from a curse, (in the forth of political injustice), and as without the shedding Of blood there was to. be no deliverance for the Christian, what could be More natural than to suppose that there could be no deliverance for the Indian without the shedding of innocent blood, since the Christian religion effected no deliverance for the Indian. And as Christians teach that innocent blood either appeases-the wrath or propitiate l the favor of cin inisible King, what dela be more natural for the Indian to suppose than that innocent blood (by whomsoever shed) would in sonic mysterious *ay appease or propitiate a Queen, (of England) invisible to them. But if innocent bleed Is not to be shed for effecting. in some mysterious way, a deliverance (from injustice) of the native in India, then why should lie be urged to believe by the Queen's Missionaries that it was necessary .for effecting the deliverance of Christians?, As if he is required to believe that the,shedding of innocent blood in India neither appeases nor propitiates, biit provokes the Wrath of the Queen against Indians, why should he be urged by. the Queen's missionaries to believe that the shedding of Jesus Christ's blood has either *appealed the wrath, or propitiated the favour of the King of Heaven? For surely the King of Heaven.must be as good as the Queen of England, and then the shedding of innocent blood must provoke him as much as herself (at the very least). And this being allowed, then why. should the Queen allow her Missionaries to slander the King , of Heaven, and falsely accuse him of hiving pro-ordained and acquired "an innocent and just man" to be slain to appease or propitiate him, as though ho were a blood-thirsty Devil., For if the King of heaven were a Devil, we are bound by the, Catechism to renOunCe.him; and all his works. And if the King of Heaven is not a Devil, we are surely bound to resist as Devils all who slander and, accuse the. King of Heaven of evil. Therefore, if the Queen of England would be esteemed in India, and not despised as an evil ruler, lot her see that her Missionaries do net represent the King of Heav as an evil ruler, as unless she does this, she tannet either be thought to esteem the King of Heaven herSOlf, or be justified in expecting that India will esteem either herself or her Governors. And since "Freedom abroad is required to preach and to hear what is held to be truth," let the Queen first secure this freedom at home in the National Churches ; because at present it does not exist, oven in the parish of St. James, out of which I have been oast (as unjustly •as Daniel was east into the don of Lions) for daring to preach the Gospel, which the Bishop of London knowingly ordained and licensed me to preach, in St. .Peter's, Great Windraill-street.—Yours respectfully, • .G.  Suicide at thirteen years of ago was held by a coroner's jury at Holloway to be the result of a lad's reading. sensational books. The boy assisted his brother, a fishmonger, who boxed his ears for idling in the streets. He mounted the parapet of York-road Bridge, Regent's Park, jumped into the canal, and was drowned,  'Epping Forest Enclosure fornaed the subject of an appeal to the Lords Justices on Wednesday. The ease was heard last year before the Master of the Rolls, when a demurrer set forth that various persons interested in the enclosures were not represented in the suit. The demurrer was allowed, and time given to bring such persons into the cause. On the resunaption of the suit at the beginning of the present year the defendants again demurred. on the same grounds; but the demurrer was disalkiwed. The case comes before the Lords Justices on appeal from this decision.  Another gunpowder explosion lias taken place at Witton, near Birmingham. On Wednesday afternoon live women wore at work in shea forming part of the establishment o Messrs. A. Linley and Son, lamp and fogsignal manufacturers, charging and "closing the signals. The closing consists in placing the charged signal in a press, and pulling lover, which causes the overlapping halfof the ease to close tightly upon the smaller half. If negligently placed in the press there is danger of the percussion cap being struck. This is, no doubt, the explanation of the accident. A signal exploded in the press, and a. ' few ounces of loose powder and about a gross of charged signals exploded. The five women were at once enveloped in flames, and ran out of the shed, their clothes burning.. The poor creatures were removed to the General Hosital, Whore they remain—two of them in ,a precarious state. The shed iva3 destruod.