27 MAY 1938, Page 22

THE FAIT/i_OF A LIFETIME

- [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]

Snt,—From the many interesting questions raised by " Septuagenarian " in your issue of May 2oth, I choose one, in which I should specially like help, from the last paragraph.

If you say "George is a Christian," what do you 'mean ? You may mean that he consciously accepts the creed of some recognised Christian body;' or that he regularly attends the services of it ; or that he seriously tries to carry out what Jesus teaches.

These are three different things. Any one is possible by itself. Which of them, or what combination of them, or what else, would be needed to make George a Christian ?—Yours