POLITICS AND THE CLERGY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPZCIATOR."]
SIR,—The Spectator, in an article under this heading on September 7th, speaks of " the advantage possessed by a Unionist for associating the history of our country with that set forth in the Hebrew Scriptures," and goes on to suggest that the political crisis in Rehoboam's reign forms a striking object-lesson as to the dangers of the Home-rule policy of the late Government. But surely, Sir, a Home-ruler might just as honestly, and at least as forcibly, employ that incident in Jewish history in support of his policy, and argue that if Rehoboam had granted a wise measure of Home-rule to the Northern tribes, the Union would have been preserved, and the revolution under Jeroboam never have taken place.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Trowell Rectory, September 9th. WRAY W. HUNT.
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