14 DECEMBER 1907, Page 15

THE PIERCE INCIDENT.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECIFLTOR."]

SIR,—The Pierce incident, recorded in your issue of November 30th, forms a strange comment on our Christianity in 1907 A.D. A man is shot on a public road in a Roman Catholic country. He lies there for two hours, bleeding. People pass him by on the other side, afraid to help. At last he struggles to the house of a neighbour, who refuses him admittance. The good Samaritan who finally gives him sanctuary is forthwith threatened anonymously with murder. Is there no priest in Crusheen ? Is the Church of Rome in Ireland a shadow, and a shadow of Death ? Can it be that the priests are so busy preaching politics that they have no time to

preach Christ P—I am, Sir, Sze., ALFRED OLLIVANT.