NONCONFORMIST CLERGYMEN AND POLITICS.
LTO TBX EDITOR, Or TH1 "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. John F. Richards, of Bishop.. stone, Lewes, in last week's Spectator, is a fine example of a man straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. The point under discussion is not my identity, nor the veracity of my friend (who, by the way, let me say, is a banker, a Magistrate, and a Baptist), but the question of whether the preponderance of purely political sermons is preached in Established or Free churches. With regard to my identity, I have nothing to gain, one way or the other, by the cover of anonymity; but I do decline to give the name of my friend, and that because I know him to be a man whose word is beyond question, and the story he told and I repeated does affect the subject your earlier correspondents raised. The real question before us is : Do Free Churchmen preach political sermons as your corre- spondents have suggested P I say we do not.—I am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM ROBINSON, Minister of the Congregational Church, Market Street, Farnworth, R.S.O.
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