-To the Editor of the And I am, of course, heartily him and Mr. Werner in holding us Christians to our profession. If we come short, the best of us, of what that. profession implies, namely the imitation of Christ, we have no right to complain if he and others bold up the mirror and bid us wash our faces. But I hed not in my limited reading of Spencer ever come across Mr. Werner's quotation before and I was certainly surprised that, without ostensible means of ascertaining the proportion of sincere to insincere Christians, he shoald write down a hundred million as the latter; that is in three of his fellow Europeans masquerading Christions", Christians on Sunday, worse than barbarians on Monday. I am afraid Mr. Werner, with his eight to two, or four "bullies" to one honest man, goes much further even than great friend.
T was as far an possible from wishing to convey either that Spencer was a plagiarist—" absorption " is no robbery.—or that he ignored, or wished to abolish, Christianity. I felt rather that, with so much in his philosophy which I assent to as a Christian, he might have been expected to use more Chrinti 2 charity in judging the 0 nations of Europe." If! Spencer had absorbed more of that temper, I venture to think his efforts to convert nominal into real Christians need not have raved so disappointing I called Mr. Werner's review "brief feom the point of view of " reader; and with a sincere appreciation of his ability in dealing with the life and work of #0 voluminous a writer and so eminent a aman.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.