[To ram EDITOR or ran Exec - mos:9 Site—Some years ago I
was staying at Bel Alp, in Switzerland. There were also in the hotel two Anglican Bishops and some thirty Anglican clergymen. An old man was staying there at the same time who was one of the most eminent and respected Nonconformist ministers in London. On Sunday he expressed a desire to participate in the Holy Communion at the little English church. Bel Alp is situated in an isolated position among the snow mountains, at an elevation of over seven thousand feet, and there was no other church within reach. But the two Anglican Bishops and the thirty Anglican clergymen said to the old man: "No, you are outside the pale," and they refused to allow him to kneel at the Table of Him who was as much his Lord as their own. I trust that the intolerance—or shall I say the bigotry l'—of Bel Alp will not be officially proclaimed as the standard of Christian charity in our Church.—I am, Sir, dza,
• .Pall Mall, S.W.
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