25 JUNE 1881, Page 13

"SPIRIT AND FORM."

(To TUX EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—In your notice of this volume of sermons last week, the reviewer " congratulates the audience who, after hearing them, requested the preacher to give them to the world in a more per- manent form." As it may surprise some of my neighbours, who were also my "audience," to read this statement, will you 'allow me to say that the " opinions " referred to in my brief preface were, with one exception, not expressed by the congre- gation for which the sermons were written P—I am, Sir, &e.,