17 DECEMBER 1937, Page 6

The expression of opinion recorded here last week in favour

of matins at eleven on Sundays appears to be highly unpopular, to judge from letters I have received and others which, I understand, appear in another column. It is not, I admit, a matter on which I have any particular right to speak, and I will say no more about it—except that some of the letters seem to make it look like a choice between a Church content to be an esoteric society and an evangelising Church with its doors wide open to Jet its message out and welcome wayfarers in.