" PRE-EMINENTLY A SAINT " [To the Editor of THE
SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Nevinson, in his very interesting and appreciative sketch of the late Dr. Horton's life and character, describes him as " pre-eminently a saint," and I suppose that most people who had the privilege of his friendship would agree with this estimate.
Dr. Horton in his " Autobiography," makes it quite clear that, like Wesley, he was from boyhood firmly convinced that his personal affairs were immediately directed by Divine Providence, as in a curious experience which occurred to him in Norway, in 1896.
One day he made an expedition with some friends " on the fiord, and over hills, and through birch woods," when one of the party, who was in delicate health, " lost an overshoe, and its recovery was very urgent " ; he then adds, " where the lost shoe was on that trackless mountain side, none but God knew."
In the afternoon he rowed up the fiord, and " through the three miles row I asked God to show me what He alone knew.
Then he landed on the beach, and " without knowing how or why, thrust my hand into a chink between some rocks, and there was the shoe."—I am, Sir, &c., WALTER CRICK.
Eastbourne.
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