TURNING EASTWARDS.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I respectfully suggest that your statement in a review of books about London in the issue of September 1st that "the High Church clergyman still turns towards Jerusalem when he repeats his Creed," &c., is not as accurate as the Spectator usually is ? I write as a Moderate Church- man, but have always turned eastward at the Creed. Yet I never thought that in so doing I was facing Jerusalem, nor have I over met any one who did. The thought in one's mind is that of the rising of the Sun of Righteousness. whose light is the light of our life. Surely also there is no parallel between modern London and Jerusalem before the Crucifixion. The latter city was the visible centre of the Theocracy; London is the great capital of a great Empire, but has no special significance such as Zion had. Jerusalem was the type of the dwelling of Almighty God among His people. The Church of Christ is the present fulfilment; the Heavenly City its final accomplishment. These things are in our minds as we pray for ourselves and others that we "may see Jerusalem in prosperity all our lives long."—I ami
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