10 MAY 1919, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTAT011."] SIR, —Your imaginary High Churchman

who would confront an Erectian with the Thirty-nine Articles (Spectator, April 26th) is Gilbertian in conception. The usual type of High Churchman (as far as I have been able to discover him) has no liking for the Articles: the cleric "reads himself in" with them (and that with a wry face), and never again men- tions them for either doctrine or instruction.-1 am, Sir, &c.,