TO TltK EIMTOK. Nik,—Do you remember John Kunyan's pregnant ullcgory concerning " n man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand. There stood also one over his head with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered him that crown for the muck-rake; but the man did neither look up nor regard, but raked to himself the straws, the small sticks, and dust of the floor." I am led to ask the above question by reason of a fierce outbreak of sectarian hatred, which, emanating from Mosterton, has reached this .Southern City unimpaired in virulence (even exhibiting the aggravated intensity of black head-Hues in a religious contemporary), and which wan briefly re ferred to in your columns and those of the ' 0:ago Daily Times.' To be more explicit. At a lecture de livered by the Countess Wachtmeister at Masterton recently, the Kev. Robert Wood, primed for the occasion with a full charge from a most misleading booklet published by the Christian Literature .Society of Madras, put a series of questions, some of which the Countess refused to answer, and he thus succeeded in breaking up the meet ing. As the reverend gentleman would ap pear to have derived his knowledge of Thoo.-iophy solely from n perusal of the pamphlet in question, it is scarcely matter for surprise lint he should regard the Theosophical Society with aversion, for, of all the attacks upon Theosophy which I have so far read, this precious publi cation is the most wickedly astute, and it presents Th< o ophy to its readers as a bundle of plagiarisms from easily-traced sources, and bogus mysticism from books that never existed save in the vivid imagina tion of Madame Rlavatsky -an Oasa piled upon I'elion of lie?. It gives, too, a dis torted account of Mrs Hcsant's life and woi V. ; but the burden of the book, its con stant refrain, is that Madame IJlavatsky was a fraud, an unprincipled woman, an artful juggler, an accomplished prestidigitateur— the greatest impostor of the age. All the more prominent foes of the society have been levied upon for contributions, and a formidable indictment against one of the founders is certainly presented. To that indictment I have here no answer to make. 