MOTORS AND THE ROADS.
ISO THE EDITOR OF THE °Seism/Tom:1 SIR,—It is an ill task to argue with an editor in his own pages, but may I say, nevertheless, that your reply to my letter on November 28th credits me with a spirit I am not of P I do not mean to give the impression "that motorists are childless, soulless, blood-seeking, man-hating demons," as you have it. There was nothing personal in my letter at all. Many of my closest friends own motors, and so do the best men I know. What I complain of in them is not that they are demonic, but that they have an anaesthetic patch in their consciences, due to the delightful motion of their motors; now that you confess that you have a motor yourself I under- stand your line better. We all have some anaesthetic area or other. We who eat meat are not sensitive to the sufferings of the animals we feed on ; slaveholders and inquisitors were excellent people on the whole, but insensitive to the rights of others in one particular. The spiritual perspicacity of our Lord enabled Him to see that publicans and harlots might be not far from the Kingdom. So I do not despair of motorists; but I generally decline the kind offers of rides by which they hope to induce motor anaesthesia in me also.—I am,
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