THE GREEK AND ENGLISH TESTAMENTS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following story of the late Bishop Villiers (I hope it is not a " wicked " one) is perhaps even more is propos to Professor Clifford's case than the one which he has given you :- I heard him say to the candidates for confirmation, in a church in his first diocese of Carlisle, whilst exhorting them to earnestness in prayer, as independent of the form of its expression, that the earnest heart did not seek for fine words, but was content with the shortest, even monosyllables, as when the nobleman, en- treating for his son's life, cried out,—" Sir, come down ere my child die." These words he repeated in his emphatic manner, making a pause after each word,—" Sir—come—down—ere—my—child- die," evidently in total forgetfulness of the form in which the prayer is handed down in us,—KeTtE, zerriii3nOr %-ply ciwoOceyeiy vi '7." LUMP FOU. No doubt the "Authorised Version" was to him as
the "Holy OriginaL"—I am, Sir, &c. A.
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