10 JULY 1915, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Since sending you some samples of clerical brilliance a friend has supplied me with another effusion which may be worthy to stand alone. I am told that a clergyman sublimely described in a sermon the attitude of a true Christian by saying that be "stood with one foot resting firmly on the rock of ages whilst with the other he pointed to the sky."---I