SIR,—I deeply sympathise with " Student " and Mr. C.
Scott, having myself been faced with similar difficulties for some years in my younger days. I believe that to us at such times, who, while admiring the Christian Ethic, cannot accept the doctrinal teaching of the Church, and of the New Testament, in general, a really helpful plan is to remember and ponder over the work of Christ Himself recorded in S. John vii 17 (Rev. Version and Greek) ; then to set our wills to get as near as possible in our own lives to the whole-hearted practising of that Ethic. We must be absolutely honest with ourselves, holding nothing back. It may be that, perhaps after a long time, our intellectual problems, though not completely solved—how can we humans expect that—yet will become practically negligible, and we shall be content to walk by faith when we cannot walk by sight.—Yours, &c., AN Ow STUDENT.
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