RELIGION WITHOUT GOD.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article on Mrs. Besant's exchange of materialism. for the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, with its letters wafted. without hands through space, and its other like marvels, recalls to me a sermon I remember hearing from the late Mr. Maurice
at Vere Street. His subject was the impossibility of keeping the belief in a spiritual world, in some form or other, out of one's life. And after pointing out how often those who reject Christianity as incredible, yet end in becoming devotees of spiritualism, table-rapping, and so forth (and as I write I can hear once more the pathetic tremolo of that impressive voice), he uttered this memorable and profound warning respecting the belief in question :—" Refuse to make it the source and spring of your life, and it will appear as the froth and the
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