7 APRIL 1900, Page 15

QUOTATIONS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Iday I remind the writer of a most interesting article in the Spectator of March 31st that the Apostle Paul, and not "the seer in the Apocalypse," describes death as "the last enemy to be destroyed" (p. 443) ? Only a few weeks ago I heard one clergyman in the pulpit quote a well-known passage from the same Epistle as " the words of the psalmist," and another in a written sermon speak of the familiar hymn beginning " Our God, our help in ages past" as " that noble poem of Cowper." Surely such blunders are not less unfor- tunate than false quantities like Omega and Stephanus, or solecisms like Benedictus benedicatur.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A DISCIPLE OF THE LATE DR. ROUTH.