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[To THE EDITOR OF Tits "SPECTATOR.") SI12,—Onr Lord expressly enjoins

upon His followers that resistance of evil the absence of which was to be the very essence of the Kingdom He had sent them to proelaith. (Luke xxii. 36): "He that bath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."—I am, Sir, &c., W. PADDON. Mayne, B.C.

This correspondence must now cease.—En. Spectator.]