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Stn,—What the reviewer of Mr. Tabez Balfour's book in last week's Spectator heard from a prison chaplain about a congre- gation of convicts reminds me of an experience of my own. My dear friend Octavius Ogle was for many years chaplain to the Warneford Asylum for (curable) lunatics. I had engaged to take his duty, and could not help showing that I felt a little nervous about it. "Don't be afraid," he said; "you wouldn't know that they were lunatics, except from their being so attentive?' And when I preached I saw what he meant. Every pair of eyes in the chapel was fixed upon me with an almost disconcerting intentness. The service was the one event of the week to them, and the interest naturally culminated in the sermon.—I am, Sir, &C., ALFRED J. CHURCH.
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