And now, friends and supporters of the Church Pastoral-Aid Society, are you willing to be tried by Dr. Molesworth, or are you convinced that he has made up his mind before you come into Court? If the Society, or the Committee it appoints as among its most responsible members, be deserving of such _rank abuse_ as this, where is the need of inquiry? Bad indeed must the Society be decided to be;—bad in its principles, bad in its management, bad in its officers; in short, all bad together. Why, then, does Dr. Molesworth dwell so tamely, at the outset, upon “_questionable appearances which require vindication_”? Wherefore does he affect to call for “_a clear and explicit understanding upon the character and designs of the Society_.” (P. 7, and Letter to the Manchester Courier.) If the matter needs no inquiry, why does Dr. Molesworth make a show of demanding it? And if it does, why does he approach the question in such a predetermined spirit of hostility as to make _the proposal_, in his case, _a deception_; shewing that he at least has settled the question _before_ (as he admits) he has heard it. There is no disguising it—Dr. Molesworth’s objection lies far deeper: this will be seen, as we enter further into the consideration of his attack. _The ostensible grounds_ of objection shift about. The employment of Lay agents is now _the minor matter_ (pp. 18 and 19). It was the major, onewhile; but the Society having suffered as much loss as the urging and mis-stating of that objection could inflict, and having happily survived the injuries, _the major point sinks_, _and becomes the minor_ (as you perceive), and _the minor is now the major_, and so on; for reproach will never be wanting against a Society founded, supported, and (under God) successfully worked by those whose religious sentiments Dr. Molesworth treats with undisguised aversion. Else why that strange loathing of the very word “_spiritually-minded_”; so that he has actually clipped it of a full syllable? It is a curious fact, that the Rev. Doctor has quoted this word (in allusion to the Letter of the Rev. Mr. Were, Secretary to the Society), but always writing it thus, “_spiritual-minded_,” no less than _eleven times in twenty pages_, and evidently in a tone of derision. Now, when a Doctor of Divinity takes up a Scriptural term only _to disparage it_, and others by it; and actually mistakes the orthography of the word, as though it were quite new to him, and foreign to his taste; it is high time we should quote him the passage at length wherein it occurs, and then leave it with him:—Rom. viii. 6: “To be carnally-minded is death, but to be spiritually-minded is life and peace.”