11 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 13

"DON'T WORRY."

(To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3

Sta,—The letter by "N. Y. Y." in your issue of October 28th. telling how, instead of an address of his own to a young men's class, he read the article "Don't Worry," by "A Student in Arms," interests and, so far as the breach of what is an honoured tradition in the Church of Scotland needs justifications, justifies me. On Sunday, October 29th, in place of sermon I read the article to my people; thus, for the first time in a forty years' ministry, giving, as message for the day, a composition not my own. It was listened to with rapt interest. I prefaced it simply by asking the "open ear," reserving till the close my disclaimer of its authorship and explanation of its origin. Would that it were read from every pulpit in the land !—I am, Sir, Ac.,