To disarm possible criticism, I may say that this little pamphlet has been written by request, amidst a pressure of farm work, in snatches of time intervening between other more imperative duties: and to the advanced Materialist who has gone over the same ground on the different subjects as myself, I may say it is not written for him, as he does not require it. But it is for another class of _quasi_ liberals, and Christians who have read Wendling and the others replied to, and are in an inquiring mood after truth. And if the arguments are not wholly _new_ I would simply urge in extenuation that there is scarcely anything new under the sun, and also my entire agreement with Montaigne, when he declares he "has as clear a right to think Plato's thoughts as Plato had." ALLEN PRINGLE. Selby, Ont., June 25, 1880. * The following appears in the press:--"The New Testament Revision Committee have struck out as spurious the last seven verses of the last chapter of St. Mark." Now why have they done this thing? To an "outside barbarian" the true reason would appear to be that according to those seven verses there are no Christians on the earth to-day, as not one from the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury down to the humblest follower of Jesus can prove himself a Christian by the plain test therein given. REPLY TO WENDLING On reading Mr. Wendling's "Reply to Robert Ingersoll," it is difficult to determine precisely its theological status, or what are Mr. Wendling's positions, doctrinally, in reference to Christianity. By the flexibility of doctrine, and dubious orthodoxy, displayed therein, it is no easy matter to _place_ Mr. Wendling; and his uncertain positions and theological gyrations remind one of the famous mathematical definition of Infinity--"a sphere whose circumference is everywhere and whose centre is anywhere."