11 JULY 1914, Page 13

A WESLEYAN NON-OFFICIAL CONFERENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."'

SIR,—It is quite a common error to say that the "non- official assembly in connexion with the Church Congress at Southampton" was " a meeting of its kind entirely new." At the Church Congress at Bradford in 1898, on the Friday evening after the Congress had closed, just such a meeting was held. The Dean of Ripon presided, and Dean Farrar, Dr. Horton, Dr. Glover, and the Rev. W. L. Watkins= addressed the crowded audience in St. George's Hall. What was new at Southampton was the fact that the President of the Congress organized this " non-official " assembly. Al Bradford it was the enterprise of a parochial clergyman—the Rev. Garment Gallacher.—I am, Sir, &c.,