16 MAY 1914, Page 17

THE CHURCHMEN'S UNION.

[To TEM EDITOR Or Tea ••Sermaor.".1 SIR,—I cannot exaggerate the pleasure and satisfaction I felt at reading in your issue of May 2nd the notice you gave of the petition of the Churchmen's Union to the Archbishop and Bishops of Canterbury. I am not at the moment at all con- cerned with the particular petition. What I would beg of you, Sir, is that you will allow me to draw the attention of my fellow-laymen in the Church of England to the existence of the "Churchmen's Union" and their monthly, the Modern Churchman. This movement is growing rapidly, but should be much more widely known. The thinking or more intelligent lay- man to-day does not know what to think on many a theological and religious subject. In the Modern Churchman he would find most valuable help in the way of again acqniring a settled and peaceful faith in Christianity. The Modern Churchman is constructive, not destructive. The authors are good, sincere, honest Christian men with the truth, and the truth only, as their aim. They have no axe to grind, and give just the lead we laymen want, and must have, if the good old Church is to keep her membership.—I am, Sir, &c., A. C. LEMPRIEEE BACK.

St. Andrew's Place, Plymouth.