1 DECEMBER 1900, Page 29

" RELIGIO LAICI."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] STR,—May I call Mr. Gainsford's attention (bpectator, November 17th) to another definition of religion which he seems to have forgotten? It is given in the Epistle of St. James, chap. i., 26-27 (I quota from the Douay Version, which from the internal evidence of his letter I think he will prefer to the "Authorised "). "If any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Religion clean and un- defiled before God and the Father is this; to visit the father- less and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one's self

unspotted from this world."—I am, Sir, &c., H. S. G.