27 JULY 1918, Page 12

A MORAL OUTRAGE.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In the interests of truth : the petition Which is the subject of Mr. Fawkes's complaint in his letter to the Spectator of July 6th speaks simply of Christ's bodily Resurrection, and no more explains the How than Mr. Fawkes does himself or than Scripture does which says : " Behold*My hands and My feet; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have." The petition being Scriptural in that respect, any complaint about it becomes a com- plaint about Scripture also. The analogy in the matter of Tran- substantiation is gratnitous, and one does not think it will bear a close inspection. Those whom St. Paul combated when he said:

" If Christ be not risen, then is your faith vain," were not 'strangers to ghost-stories.—I am, Sir, dc.,