23 JUNE 1888, Page 16

GREEK TESTAMENT CLASSES.

I-TO THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR." j was pleased to learn from your reviewer that the late- Bishop Wordsworth had commended the holding of Greek classes in In-:likely places. I venture to question the criticism which assumes that such advice was impractical. I think the great scholar-saint is hereby proved to be strong just where he is assumed to have been weak.

The love of the Bible is a real thing among our middle classes, and their interest in religious matters, especially in religious controversies, would make me expect that many, people who might not otherwise have literary tastes, would be glad to learn something of that wonderful Greek language in which our New Testament comes to us.

I have put this for many years, and in several places, to a practical test ; and now it is my pleasure to hold weekly a Greek Testament class with eight members in this little town, which I dare say your reviewer would call "benighted," in that the Vicar was almost the only person in it who knew the Greek alphabet when the class began. My difficulty now is that the Vicar does not know enough Greek to do justice to his painstaking pupils.—I am, Sir, &c.,

J. ANDREWES REEVE.

St. Just Vicarage, Penzance, June 18th.