Sta,—A fifth war move prevented my writing sooner to express
my deep appreciation and admiration of Lady Lothian's excellent and timely article. I am seventeen years her senior, and I came out in a world diseased with clever scepticism and lack of faith. Travelling far I came across, occasionally, those holding Mr. Rumbold's strange alternative to the Christian belief, and I am speaking personally when I say I never once found any of these people really happy. What they had to offer was an empty void, an unparalleled dreariness ; the Brotherhood of Man, the materialistic realism, even the Wordsworthian love of nature, collapsed when put to the test.
I have always believed with Dr. Johnson. that " to be of no church is dangerous" that. "religion of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by the external ordinances, stated calls to worship and the salutary influence of example." I would recommend for Mr. Rumbold's reading, Fighter Pilot, then he might understand the spiritual qualities of the generation of young men who have saved for him the freedom of conscience. If the young women of Lady Lothian's generation are of her mind, then none of us need fear for the future world.—Your faithfully, SUSAN GILLESPIE. ro Latham Road, Cambridge.
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