"HANG THEOLOGY!"
f To THE EDITOE OF TRU. "SPECTATOR"] SIA,—After that meeting to which you allude in the Spectator of January 25th, Mr. Rogers, as he was walking home with his then curate, asked him, "Did I really say 'Hang Theology' ?"—" Yes," answered Mr. Berkley (my brother-in- law, now vicar of Navestock), "you did."—" Dear, dear," said Mr. Rogers, "I didn't mean that, I only meant let us for the present suspend the theological question." Surely sometimes a thing is best said with exaggeration. Our Lord said, 'Unless a man hate his father and mother and brethren, he cannot be my disciple." The two sayings must be taken in their literal meaning together, or in relation to the circum- stances. No earthly love must hamper the way to the higher life ; no theological prejudice must bar the way to the spread of sweetness and light, toleration and brotherly kindness.—
Vicar of High Hurstwood.
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