30 AUGUST 1919, Page 16

A TEXT FOR THE TIMES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I think some of your clerical readers might like to he reminded of the following text as being so remarkably appropriate a subject for sermons at the present time: " The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest" (St. Matthew. chap. ix., verses 37-38).—I am,

Sir, &c., G. S. Du CARE.

THE USES OF ADVERTISEMENT, [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In reference fo your article " The Uses of Advertisement " (August 90), I thought the enclosed might interest you. It is a copy of a bill on a Fleets Street hoarding.—I am, Sir, &c., 168 and 167 Fleet Street, Lt.C. 4. ALFRED SELL.