22 AUGUST 1908, Page 16

TRUE RELIGION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Mr. Dawson's quotation from Coleridge (Spectator, August 15th) would seem to imply that outward ceremonial is altogether out of place in Christianity. That was not my contention, but only that there was a tendency in the present day to attach undue importance to the " symbol." Mr. Bullock- Webster illustrates this by his quotation from the Official Year-Book, which tells us that £260,000 were spent last year in church furniture and £17,000 on pensioning the clergy.—