THE PSALMS IN MODERN LIFE.
[To TOE Enema or the " Sem-mm."1 Stn,—Your correspondent Mr. William Bayne is not alone in his surprise at the- confession of a recent writer in your columns: " The Psalms leave us cold." To his list of eminent pereons who owed much to the Psalms let me add one more modern than any.
Mr. Gladstone, as I think Lord Morley mentions, used to turn to the Psalms for the day for comfort and inspiration at any great crisis. But if the modern man would know bow much the Psalms can help, let him turn to them in the trenches. Said or sung originally by shepherds, warriors, outlaws, for the most part, in great jeopardy and in the face of death on the path of duty, the Psalms were my constant stay on the peninsula of Gallipoli. More than any other portion of Holy Scripture did they give me there (and that almost unsought) my message for the men whom it was my privilege to serve. I recall specially the 23rd, the 03rd, the 91st, and the 121st.—I am, Sir, Sc.,
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