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No. 3. 
 
 HAMTON, 2kd Mat, 1880. 
 
 To ths Congregation of 
 
 Th.e Macnab Street Prezbyteriaiphurch, Hamiltoh. 
 
 Infamous conduct of Robert Hopjs, Alexander McKenzie, 
 Donald MoLellan and others, your eldeivirtually headed by David 
 Inglij, your minister. 
 
 The usual monthly meeting of the'eachers of your Sabbath 
 School, took place last evening, and aft: . . matter was disposed of, 
 David Ingli3, your minister rose, and loaig at Hopkins, said, " You 
 want me away,'' and left the meeting—aie of conduct he has never 
 pursued hitherto at these meetings : whi, with his said language, 
 clearly shows his knowl'idge of and concrence in the infamous pro- 
 ceedings which were to follow. Such oduct however from a crea- 
 ture, who swore that he believed doctrin-to "be the truths of God," 
 which at the very moment of his oath Mid not believe, (as I have 
 already explained to you) is simply to b expected. 
 
 My sister has been a teacher in the Siool for some years. Not 
 the slightest fault has been found with h< hitherto, on the contrary 
 praise has been given to her, for her exertions on behalf of the 
 School. And to show Hopkins' view of iiy sister's conduct, before 
 my first letter to you, he took his daught« from Mrs. Watson's class, 
 and placed her with my sister, saying, he would be much better 
 taught : and she is still with my sister, i 
 
 Scarcely ere David fnglis left the ;aid meeting, Alexander 
 Mackenzie, one of your elders, rose and loved a resolution to expel 
 my sister from the school, and made a frious speech, charging my 
 sister with speaking ill of Inglis, Hopkini and himself, and that she 
 had been trying to pervert the minds of the children and their 
 parents against them. When he sat do\<n, a similar course of con- 
 duct was pursued by Hopkins, Davidson and some others of that 
 gang. As soon as my sister somewhat recovered herself from such 
 a sudden brutal attack, (wholly without rotice to her, but evidently 
 all well arranged by Inglis, Hopkins, and those foul creatures,) asked 
 
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 what she had said aboutjlis, Hopkins, McKenzie at.d the perver- 
 sion of the children, &cd after insisting upon the charges being 
 proved, and that generalertions should not he taken, at length 0"e 
 Sames Miller said, that met my sister on a Sabbath afternoon 
 recently, returning homem visiting an absent scholar, who rnade 
 the remark to him, " thfir. Inglis had surely some^ object in view 
 in visiting the Sabbath Sol to-day, as he very seldom comes ,iea 
 it," or words to that eff My sister asked if that was not rue 
 the admission had to be ie of its truth, and that Inglis had sadly 
 neglected the Sabbath >ool : but he-Miller, thought "^Y «^fer 
 sp5ke the language in ' disparaging manner. Thus were tne 
 fiVst charges refuted, as V had nothing else to say, -these charges 
 being as they all well kn, infamously false. 
 
 The next charge wasade by William I^^^i^/-:"' Jj^llel^^^^^^ 
 That my sister had founcult with him to some of the ^caaiers,tor 
 an erroneous prayer maoy him in the Sabbath school. |hi8 /ny 
 sister at once admitted, d cited the prayer which was that we 
 might all suffer on the en as our Saviour suffered, and a I be msea 
 from the dead as our Sa>ur was raised," and asked, if that prayer 
 was not blasphemous, aiappealed to one or tfopersons there il 
 they did not hear it, noiof whom would speak but ^^^^jl^am Cbs 
 holm, one of your deaco on being again closely reminded by my 
 sister of his language, sa that he heard Davidson using «^ron.7lan- 
 gu^ge in a praytr, since ide by him in the Sabbath «choo I^ese 
 creatures then' finding tt Davidson's said grossly hlasphemous 
 prayer could not be deni< one saying by way of excuse it might be 
 a mistake in him, forsooUiat charge. 
 
 One Mcintosh, a salesm in Osborne's grocery, brought up the 
 charge that my sister haspoken « so much nonsense about the 
 Sabbath school library bks, that he " was disgusted, and did not 
 attend the meetings. As^r that charge, my sister at once a<jmitted 
 that she had repeatedly rought up before the Teachers, at their 
 meetings, the .ry impro^r bSoks which were in the Sabbath scho^ 
 library ; that a number othe books were wholly unfi for a Sabbath 
 school ; that in conseque^e a committee was appointed to examine 
 same, composed of Hoplns, McKenzie, Skinner, and hersel that 
 upon such examination aiumber of books were found wholly unfat 
 for a Sabbath school-imroper books ; that she, with consent took 
 several of them, and placd in the library an equal number «* books 
 ather own expense; that lopkins did likewise; f^ that he, Hopkins 
 declared that one book .hieh he took was so bad, th^t in order to 
 make an example betbrehis family, he burned it ; that these booKs 
 were put in the library byDonald McLellan, the then Superin^ndant 
 of the School, out of his aiop ; for which he was paid by the congr^ 
 gation ; that as the schml much wanted books, sha—my sister 
 called upon a number of the congregation for a subscription to pro- 
 
 
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 vide books, which with one or two exceptions, was liberally resnonded 
 to; that over 80 books were therewith purchased, (all of wS my 
 
 ^d bnnL r T" f^^^'Tu '"'^"''^' ^' ^"" «« ^^^'^ ^00 volumes of the 
 of r^,K t ' •* Z ^"'''^ l^^ ?'7^" ^" '^^'^' ^*' ^he works of the Board 
 mv^house r SU- ^^"^^J' /^^e great portion of the works sent to 
 my house by Mr Skmner, belonging to said Board, being more or 
 less corrupted with the Millenarian heresy, were refus'ed-f fact which 
 doubtless accounts for the failure of Inglis' pet scheme, who selected 
 the books,) and the residue from Donald Mlellan ; that this wasl 
 wo k of great trouble to my sister, upon whom it chiefly m, owTng 
 wish to nl'h 'T^ •'"^i by McLellan, but the Committee did io? 
 
 Finally, they were driven to the r^a/ cause of their fiendish hostilitv 
 
 hefll tt^^'t-' "T'^^' "^? '^^^ ^^"^^ ^" y«" ' «"^ which had n.peat 2 
 before this time been spoken of by some of these creatures. Hopkins 
 
 ^1 nr'"^'"'M^'" ''^*? '' ""y «^^^^-^' '^'' if «he Mould fay^tia 
 sh dtdnot sympathtze with me in the matter, they would notellel 
 
 fl I; . J.'" "l^ '\Tl '^•^ig"^»tJy '•ejected, as a^ outrage on humanity 
 chat a sister should have no feeling for a brother; and that iTid not 
 
 SchooW?""' '" f^. '^"^^' "«^ ^''^ '-^"y thing 'about the Sabbath 
 School therem, and tf.at my actions afforded no grounds for exnelHn. 
 her. However, these foul beings all banded tZ^herrnH! if 
 arranged beforehand with IngIis,^ho as air ady fern ked t^^^^^^ 
 skulked from his duty, for upwards of an hour tleatred 1 S 
 m every possible conceivable way, to eet her to s>iv th7r lul .7^ 
 
 only sav'".l,r!h ^°'!^ i'*"'u"'' ^'"8. that if my si»ter Soul.' 
 only say that she would do what she could to brltiB me back from 
 
 wiu dTr^atlL"' Ifd 'T',};' 'Sr?"' P™b»%" hetaeS 
 T V D ^^"^"e^- And when this add t bnal foul suiffestion ffi\U^ 
 
 know ?/rr ^-'^^ ^''rr'^ ^^"^^*h^^ ^«« of your eE desired to 
 fnZ fi ? ^''''''". '''^"^'^ ""t t^'^e up the matter against her therebv 
 indirectly (more vile than if direct,) villainously tb?eltenina'her with 
 expulsion from the church, unless she would say that sife hid no 
 
 "would iust t'fhTT ^.^'"'"' "^^^ '' "^y '^''''^ that if she 
 woma just .say that she had no sympathy for mp th«t «>.^ 
 
 Alexander McKenz.e, Donald McLellan John Brown Mcintosh' 
 
 BchioT bv FMa? / "^u' "^'^ it"' ^^P^^'ed from the sabbath- 
 BchooJ, by Elders of a Christian Church, because she had tbe hel 
 
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ings of a human person, — the feelings of a sister for a brother, 
 and dared maintain the same. 
 
 Human language fails in the attempt to comment upon euch fiend- 
 ish heartlesaness. 
 
 These foul beings were most lovingly harmonious last night, In 
 this their iniquity. It is only however a short time since said MoKen- 
 zie and MoLellan were elected Elders ; and MoLellan thereupon 
 strongly and bitterly opposed before the Session McKenzie'a ordina- 
 tion as an Elder, upon the ground that McKenzie was dishonest in 
 money matters ; and he cited one case in proof thereof, that he 
 McKenzie had attempted to cheat Mr. John Judd, of this city — a 
 chairdlor. 
 
 Further at present I say not. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 COLIN D. REID. 
 
 3rd Mav. 
 
 Additional infamous conduct. 
 
 I on behalf of my sister, this morning applied to the Secretary of 
 the Sabbath School, for a copy of the resolution, expelling her from 
 the school. Whereupon he said hat he could not give it to me, as 
 McKenzie had called on him yesterday morning, and said to him, — 
 " Miss Reid will be wanting a copy of the resolution, but don't give 
 it to her ;" but that he would call on Hopkins the Superintendent, 
 and ask him about it. Thereafter he the Secretary called at my 
 office and informed me, that he had called on McKenzie and Hop- 
 kins, and that both of these persons ordered him not to give to my 
 sister a copy of the resolution ; and that therefore he could not. 
 
 What think you of this conduct ? These wretches knew their 
 juilty foul conduct would not bear the light, — as villainy lov6s 
 
 darkness. 
 
 C. D. R.