M. PASTEUR'S TREATMENT FOR HYDROPHOBIA.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."
SIR,—Though your correspondence columns just now are filled to overflowing with letters upon subjects of great interest, possibly, in the interests of those to whom the Spectator has ever been a friend—our dumb and helpless fellow-creatures- you will allow me to call attention to the fact of collections having been made in two or three of our churches to defray the expenses of sending patients to Pasteur, thus countenancing from the pulpits where must so often have been read the words -‘` His tender mercies are over all his works," the merciless tortures of the animals (" His works ") that form a necessary part of Pasteur's investigations and even treatment. And with what consistency can the sublime lesson of self-sacrifice, inculcated in the same Book that speaks to us of God's "tender mercies," be -taught by those who have shown such ready sympathy with the selfish cowardice that counts as nothing the agonies of Pasteur's -tortured and maddened victims, if haply through their certain sufferings we may be saved from some possible danger ?
Shall the sound of these collections be the only sound given forth by our churches upon this subject, and throughout England are there no pulpits from which may yet be heard sermons from the text I have already quoted, or from that other verse in which we are told that " not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our heavenly Father's notice "?—I am, Sir, Ac.,
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