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[To THE EittiOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,---My late father, a

parson who died thirty years ago, when he was a young man once heard Robert Montgomery preach. I have heard him tell the story more than once, and he spoke of his own delight in repeating and memorizing one precious sentence. What the great man wanted to say was : "The time when Abraham saw God by faith." What he did say was : " The period in the dispensation of the Divine Omniscience when over the retina of Abraham's imagination there flashed the preludial vision of the incarnation of the coming Saviour." I think this would be hard to beat, and my father was a truth-telling man.--I am, Sir, &o.,

0. FAIRFAX CROWDER.

Colmore House, 21 Waterloo Street, Birmingham.