[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mr. Tom Anderson's
letter in the Spectator of July 244.1; is so horrible that I cannot refrain from these few comments. Mr. Anderson makes great claims for his teaching and his ideal which he calls a "great and grand ideal." He claims for his class, and his class only, what he calls a " full, free and happy life," which is to be the result of his teaching. Mr. Anderson's gospel is one of utter selfishness and greediness, and no such gospel can ever bring about either freedom or happiness ; it must in the long run result in tyranny and ruin, culmin- ating in the general misery of everybody, including those who teach that gospel. Mr. Anderson denies the existence of God. He is or wishes to be blind. We who believe in God, we know that He is, and that no unbelief can change that fact. The blind may refuse to believe in the existence of light, in the sun, moon and stars, but their unbelief does not affect the heavenly bodies; no more can the unbelief of any man or body of men affect the existence of Him whom we call God, of Hint who is our God for ever and ever, who will be our Guide even
Chetcton Priory, Bath.
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