THE KING'S LETTER.
rTo THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Being in Londonderry last Sunday, I attended service in the First Presbyterian Church, which is the largest church in the city and situated within a stone's-throw of Walker's monument. After reading the Scripture lesson—Ecele- siastes viii.—the minister (Rev. Dr. MacGranahan), having called attention to the fourth verse, " Where the word of a King is, there is power," proceeded thereafter to read the King's letter. The great congregation, which must have numbered close on a thousand, stood during the reading of the letter, and at the close burst forth into " God Save the King," which was sung with a heartiness and fervour I never heard surpassed. The spontaneity and sincerity of the incident appealed not only to one's piety and sense of the fitness of things, but also created a wish that the King's letter might be read in all our churches at some suitable time.—I am, Sir, [We hope for more. Our hope is that one of the Sundays in November will be set aside as " Recruiting Sunday," and that in every church, Established and Free, throughout the land there will be a service, or portion of a service, devoted to the prosecution of Lord Derby's scheme. A feature of such a service should clearly be the reading of the King's message. This might take place at the same hour throughout the country. There should, of course, also in all cases be a recruiting sermon adapted to the local conditions.—En. Spectator.]
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