15 FEBRUARY 1952, Page 15

By Candlelight SIR,—I do not understand why Mr. Stockwood should

assume that those who are interested in matters of Church order and ceremonial are somehow less concerned than he is with the necessity for effective evangelism. Most Anglicans, I feel, would agree with the members of the Church Assembly's Commission on Church and State who wrote in their recently published report: " We believe that such things as the proper order of worship . . . do fundamentally affect the work and witness of the Church." So,' pace Mr. Stockwood, did Cranmer and Laud. Incidentally, does Mr. Stockwood really think that the prose- lytising power of Communism has no connection with its sense of