25 JULY 1914, Page 14

THE WELSH CHURCH AND CONVOCATION.

[To THY. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Supporters of the principle of a National Church cannot consistently dispute the right of Parliament to deal with the constitution of Convocation. And it may be doubted whether the Welsh Bishops and clergy will lose much practically by their exclusion from the latter body. What is more serious, RS has been pointed out by Dean Fremantle and other Liberal Churchmen, is that Parliament should set up, under the name of the Welsh Church, a small, exclusive, and ecclesiastically governed sect, and that, too, at a time when the tendency towards union amongst Christians generally is gaining