18 JULY 1903, Page 16

COMPROMISE OR COMPREHENSION?

pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIB,—In a sermon preached five years ago before a gathering of clergy at Oxford the following sentence occurred :--" Our ideal must be, not compromise for the sake of peace, but com- prehension for the sake of truth." The preacher was the present Bishop of Stepney, then vicar of Portses, ; and his words are, I think, well worth remembering. They struck many of us at the time.—I am, Sir, &c., W. H. sexual.