PASTOR Jacob Primmer has recently had a correspondence with one of his brethren in the Established Church, the treasurer of the ritualistic Church Service Society. The latter gentleman accompanied a team of curlers to Canada, and actually engaged with them in their game on the Lord’s Day. Ritualism and contempt for the law of God are closely connected with one another, and, in this case, goes hand in hand. The correspondence speaks for itself:—
The Manse, Dirleton, 26th August, 1903.
My dear Pastor Primmer.—I send you report of C.S.S. as asked. I thank you for sending me your pamphlet re Mr. Charleson. When are you going to understand that the greatest thing in the world is charity? Your insulting remarks on my Scottish curling team in Canada ought to condemn you to be buried under Niagara Falls.—Yours very truly, J. KERR.
In his reply Mr. Primmer says:—I was once like you, regardless about the Sabbath law, but when God, 45 years ago, showed me that I was a lost sinner and drew my heart to Himself, I bitterly repented of the past, and since then have striven, with the help of the Holy Ghost, to keep all His laws, especially the centre one—the Sabbath Day. I do pray that you may come to do the same. To return to charity, you remind me of the kettle reproving an imaginary pot when you say I ought to be buried under Niagara Falls. A fine charitable spirit indeed! You have yet to understand that one of the greatest things in the world is charity. You may explain that it is not murder nor martyrdom you mean, but only “burial.” Well, in that case, I have no objection to be buried at such a world-famed spot, provided that you dig the grave, and see that I am really put under the ground, and defray all expenses, and set up a tombstone with the inscription that it has been erected by Mr. Kerr’s Sabbath-breaking curling team to one who did not fear to do his duty in denouncing their Sabbath-breaking.