"HOWLERS."
[To THE Evrros or THE " BrzczAroz."1 SIR,—With regard to the " howlers " you quote in the Spec. tator of December 30th, I confess I doubt one or two of them, —e.g., Joan of Arc and Noah's wife. But the answer about faith I have myself heard; indeed, it was given to me quite' lately by a European boy in an Indian school. "What do you mean by Faith 1" was the question.—" Please, Sir, when you believe anything you are quite certain is not true," was the prompt answer. But the story on this subject I delight in most was that of the little boy who asked his mother what faith was, and received the not very judicious reply that faith was believing in something you could not see, but which was told you by a person whom you could trust. "For instance," she continued, "if I told you there was a chair in that corner, you would have to believe it, though you could not see it."—" Yes, mother; but should I be bound to sit in it?" It would be curious to discover how many people do really think that faith is believing something that they know is not true. More, think, than we imagine.—I am, Sir, 8tc.,
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