6 APRIL 1907, Page 17

AN ATTENTIVE CONGREGATION.

[To TBX EDITOR OF MX "SPECTATOR"]

Sra,—Your correspondent's experience recorded in the Spectator of March 23rd is very similar to an incident that occurred in a little meeting-house in Breconsbire. It was a hot summer evening, and the minister prosed on interminably, till, pausing to look round, he found everybody had gone to sleep but the village idiot. " Nobody," he exclaimed reproach. fully, "is listening to me, but one poor idiot." The idiot immediately rose and said: "If I were not an idiot I should not be listening to you," and marched out of the building.—