THE SIMPLICITY OF GOODNESS.
[To THE Emma Or THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—The above article in this week's Spectator, which I have read with much interest, recalls to my memory the following utterance of Charles Kingsley. In preaching in his father's
church, St. Luke's, Chelsea, for the schools, about the yea. 1855, he said :—
" The Spirit of God is in every man, and you see the evidence of it in most unlooked-for quarters. Go to the gallery of a penny theatre and you will see that the boys and girls there applaud the
victory of the good and the overthrow of tho villain. don't speak from hearsay, I know it.'" I have never during these fifty-six years or so since I heard them attempted to write the words down, so I cannot speak for their verbal accuracy, but they express what I understood
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