CELESTIAL INFANCIES
SIR,--H. B. Levin writes in your issue of April 27 of Dartington School, describing a girl having her head banged against a wall because she decided to go to Holy Communion. When?
It is always impossible to prove a negative. I can say from my personal experience as rector of the parish that I am allowed to visit the school at any time, that some of the children come to my church and sing in my choir, and that a number of them have been presented for Confirmation by me.
The school, in fact, is quite impartial, and leaves
me to do the best I can, while it remains extremely friendly. To this I have no objection. If I cannot present Christ to the children, upless they are driven to hear me by school discipline, I should do better to resign my living.
QUIN1IN MORRIS' Dartington Parsonage, Totnes, Devon
[H. B. Levin writes : 'Nothing I said contradicts anything in the Rev. Morris's letter. It was the pupils at the school who were behaving in the manner I described; the impartiality of the teacher I referred to consisted in allowing them to do so. Mr. Morris's experience shows the good results of impartiality; my friend's head, the other.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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