18 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 12

PAST AND PRESENT.

[To riu: EDITOR OP THE "Sezerarcot.")

tam,—Many of your readers will, I think, after reading the extracts which you give from the pamphlet written by Mr. Whitworth snore than a hundred rears ago, hare shared with you the "almost uncanny sense of hew impossible it is for us to get away from our past, even if we Should desire to do so." I wonder whether any of your readers will have observed the light which is thrown upon the records of the New Testament and upon the character of St. Paul by the association of words of your own, to be found at the top ol p. $74 in last-week's issue, with St. Luke's report of the words of St. Paul written nearly two thousand years ago. I will put them together in this way :—" When part ef the crew of the tempest-tossed ship attempted to sneak off,"

by letting down the boat into the sea, under -colour as though they -would have oast anchors out of the foraship, Paul -said to the Centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, we cannot be saved. *Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the beat awl let her fall off" (Auto xxviL 30-32).—I am, Sir, &es

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