Show BUSKINS BRUSQUESNESS Perhaps Ruuklns blunt honesty of expression Is nowhere better Illustrated than In C letter written In reply to an appeal 1 for help to pay off tho debt 01 0 chapel at Richmond We copy It from Colllngwoods Life Branfvvood Conlston LancuBhlre May 19 IS 1 SlrI am scornfully amused at your appeal to me of nil In the al people world the precisely least llkoly to elvo you u farthing My I first word to all men nd boys who caro to hear mo is Dont get Into debt Starve und go to heaven but dont borrow nnl OMt beggingI dont mind It Its really needful stculini 1 needul tcul But dont buy things YOU cant pay for And of all manner of debtors pious peo iIs building churches they can t pay for arc th most detctttnblo nonsense to me Cant you preach and pray behind the hc er In I a 2undpltr a coalholo llrst And of all munner of churches thus Idl I otlcnlly built Iron churches t1t the damnubleat to inc l And of all tine HL U of believers In any I ruing spirit Hindoo Turks Feather Idolntor Jind Mumbo Jumbo Log and I I Firo AVonhlporM who want churches Fro I vour modern English JSvnnRcllcal sect IK I tho most absurd and entirely objection I iible to mol All which thoy might vury I easily havo found out from my booltl I any other sort of sect would before iHHliorlnff mo to write It to them I Kver iievorlhplPSH and In all this SI veyour faithful servant lug your 6Crint I t JOHN RlsKrN I should be added that tIme recipient I of the letter promptly sold It for 110 I ew York Evening Pout |