ESCAPE AND PRAYER - * [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. F. G. Keen overlooks two important points when he replies to the simile of the wireless : 1, You must switch on if you expect a message ; not all do so. 2, You must tune in.
We are here face to face with the great mystery of pain and evil, of which, as Baron Von Hiigel in the memoirs recently published, The Reality of God, Religion and Agnosticism, wrote, we have not, and cannot have, a complete explanation in this life ; but we can have some light, and offer an explana-
tion that provides comfort and inspiration. . . Sir Ernest Shackleton in that walk over the snow with his
companion was conscious with him of a third unseen presence guiding them. Captain Scott Would have been the hist person to deny that experience, though he and his companioni
were not led like Sir Ernest Shackleton to safety. "But dare we, in the light of their end, and the immortal example they left to the world, say that God was not present with them ?--- Bredon Rectory, Bredon.
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