6 MAY 1916, Page 10

A SOLDIER'S POEM.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you allow me to note how strikingly the lines by the late Mr. Wilfrid Brinton, quoted in your issue of April 22nd, refute the . doctrine of Nietzsche that Christianity is a religion fit only for slaves

and weaklings ? It is evident from these lines (written, as I am informed,. when Mr. Brinton was an undergraduate at Oxford) that what touched him in the character of Jesus was its manliness ; and that a young man, ordered to do a man's hardest work, could have no higher example as leader.—I am, Sir, &c., C. C. Mamas. Meonstoke House, by Bishops Waltham, Hants.