22 DECEMBER 1900, Page 14

CHRISTIANITY A HEROIC ADVENTURE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on St. Francis of Assisi in the Spectator of December 1st you expressed a wish for men who would look on Christianity as a heroic adventure. Would you be surprised to learn that there are thousands among us (besides the writer) who view it exactly in that way ? —workers in the Church Army and Salvation Army ; preachers and evangelists of all denominations, with their fellow-labourers; all helpers of temperance and rescue work. To such Christi- anity (by which I understand you to mean the carrying out of its obligations) is indeed a heroic adventure. You may reply that these are mostly narrow-minded, one-idea'd people. I can only say, So was St. Francis,—indeed, rather more