23 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 11

THE GENERAL THANKSGIVING.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR.—Do not these times of great thanksgiving afford an excellent opportunity for introducing into our public worship the practice of the congregation joining audibly in the General Thanksgiving as they do in the General Confession at Morning and Evening Prayer P True, there is no rubric enjoining the practice, but neither is there any forbidding it, and surely praise should be as general and audible as prayer.—I am, Sir, Sic., Rose Castle. Carlisle. W. CARLIOL.