To the Editor and Readers of The Congregationalist: Friends.—The faith, piety, and mental equipoise of "200 intelligent and respectable looking people" having been indirectly called in question by the writer of an interesting "Letter from Boston" in The Congregationalist, issue of May 1st, would you not kindly permit one of the " 200 " to speak a word in their defense?
Surely you will; for it would be indeed a "new departure" for Christian Journalism to let any of its readers feel unjustly misrepresented through its columns, by direct or indirect comments on their religious observances, and not give that religious body a hearing through the same medium.
"The most unkindest cut of all" at the devout worshippers at the Church of Christ, was the statement, "The principles taught are mixed with fatal errors, leading ultimately to what borders upon fanaticism, if not upon blasphemy." It is like the cry of infidelity against Spinoza, for declaring, " Deus est rerum causa immanens non transiens."
