CHRISTIANITY A HEROIC ADVENTURE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your expressed desire that men would look upon Christianity as a heroic adventure, to which " A Lay Worker" refers in the Spectator of December 22nd, brings to my recollection numerous cases of men who, in deciding to follow Christ, found that it required a good deal of moral heroism to make a good confession before their fellow-men. Why, scores have discovered that in the early stages of their Christian career it has needed both pluck and perseverance to maintain their religion. To some men it is infinitely harder to bear the sneers of their irreligious companions than even to face the fire of the enemy on a battlefield. The ministers of Primitive Methodism, for instance (a denomina- tion which probably has influenced the working classes of England more than any other religious community), could cite many cases of this description. In the coal mines and great workshops of the country it is being proved daily that Christianity is a heroic adventure. It would test the patience and good humour of some of the saintliest of the great dignitaries of the Church were they called upon for a single day to endure the chaff and persecution nobly and genially borne for Christ's sake by troops of his humblest disciples.—
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