24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 15

A SUGGESTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTATOR.']

Stn,—In connection with Canon MacColl's letter in the Spectator of September 10th, can you find room for the following extract from •` Bishop Sanderson on Conscience"? —" There is more occasion for an umpire to reconcile both opinions that differ more in appearance than in reality than for a judge to condemn the one and acquit the other. And this would be the end, perhaps, of many of those disputes which at present distract the Christian world, and are carried on with such bitterness of language, did not the prejudice and faction of polemics droan the spirit of peace and charity."—