[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Like many others no
doubt wbo appreciate the excellent broad-minded articles on religion which appear from time to time in the Spectator, I have read with deep interest the last, " Christ's Words Concerning Himself." The writer comments on the many who fail to attain an ideal "personal relation" with Christ, and turn away in sad uncomprehension. I venture to ask should any such he faint-hearted, and despair, and turn away ? Even St. Paul counted himself not to have apprehended. Should we not all, like him, go on reaching forth to those things which are before P Should we not strive to enter in at the strait gate, and to lay out our lives to forward Christ's great objects, as defined by the writer : "the relief of human misery, mental, moral, and physical; to comfort the sad, the poverty-stricken, the oppressed, and the sick ; and to enlighten those whom intellectual darkness stupefies, brutalises, or maddens " ? Then, even if we fail to com- prehend in this life, may we not hope to know, even as we are
known, in the life to come ?—I am, Sir, &c., G. C.
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