BIBLE TALKS.
[To Tax EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Szn.,—I observe that Mr. Fleetwood H. Williams in your issue of the 16th, referring to the "Bible Talks "which formed such an interesting feature of the morning's instruction at Upping. ham in the days of Thring, tells us how the "text" on one occasion was "that strange story—with its lurking suggestions of unfairness to a boy's mind—of the men who, stumbling, laid their hands upon the Ark of God and were smitten with death." Now, only one man was smitten on that occasion, Uzzah, nor did he stumble either. It was the oxen stumbled, and so shook the Ark, and Uzzah, to save it, and not himself, advanced his rash hand and touched the holy thing. That the robuster intelligence of the adult rightly perceives that any suggestion of unfairness in this "punishment" is only worthy of "a boy's mind" your correspondept may doubtless
correctly apprehend, but I should be more certain of this had he shown more familiarity with the narrative.—I am, Sir, Sze.,
W. FLETCHER.
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