23 MAY 1914, Page 18

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the tinomies " reminds me of the following experience of my own. As a child I well recall hearing my sisters, older than myself, reciting daily to their governess Cowper's lines on his mother's portrait. The line Thy nightly visit to my chamber made" puzzled me much. Why should she visit his " chamber-maid" ? A school- master in Orders told me the following as having happened, if I remember• lightly, in his own school. A paper had been set on the Catechism, and contained the following question : "What does the Catechism teach you (a) to believe, (h) to renounce, and (c) to do? " One boy replied: "The Catechism teaches ns (a) to believe the world, (b) to renounce the flesh, and (c) to