MULTIPLICITY OF SERMONS,
[To TUE EDITOR OF TIIR SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Part of your article in the Spectator of February 21st, on "The Training of Curates," brought to my mind an old story, for the truth of which I do not vouch ; but I can truly say I did not invent it, and se non e vero, e ben trovato.
Two friends were discussing the desirableness of hearing several sermons on the same day. One of them said that if he heard a good sermon in the morning, it was as much as he could digest with profit, and it rather impaired the effect to have to listen to a second, much more to a third. The other, on the contrary, said that he listened with pleasure and profit to three sermons every Sunday. "Will you kindly tell me," said the first, "the subjects of the three sermons you heard on Sunday last?" After a pause for reflection, he replied : "Nathan said unto David, out of the fish's belly, almost thou persua,dest me to be a Ohristian."—I am, Sir, &c., J. R.
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