LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
DEAN PLUMPTRE'S EIRENICON.
[TO TER EDITOR OP TER " 8111CTATOR."1
Sta,—Dr. Plumptre, in his valuable letter of the 3rd inst., suggests a Ritual Eirenicon based upon a compromise. I believe I am expressing the conviction of thousands of laymen who are loyal to the Church of England, as a living branch of the Church Catholic, when I say that the only possible eirenicon must be one having a wider and stronger basis than this. What we want is toleration. Let this, no outrageous demand, after all, in free England, be extended to every school of religious thought. The work of each, as representing at least a part of the truth, and therefore tending towards God, is surely needed enough, in these days of infidelity ; and we are fairly entitled to ask that Catholic truth (which, be it remembered, must, as the truth, achieve ultimately its triumph, whether at the moment allowed or denied its proper expression in the ritual of the altar) may be allowed to do its work, unfettered and unpersecnted, in a country whose freedom is her boast.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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