27 AUGUST 1954, Page 14

Star -The controversial issues which Mr. W. James has raised

in his reply to Sir Compton Mackenzie must inevitably evoke a strong measure of disagreement from Anglo- Catholics.

There is no evidence whatever that the Thirty-Nine Articles have been set at nought, and apparently Mr. James's only reason for thinking so is his startling discovery that there is an interpretation of them in conflict with his own.

It seems to me that Mr. James's fundamen- tal difficulty consists in his failure to recog- nise that the whole structure of our Prayer Book services is based upon the Catholic belief in a sacerdotal priesthood, fully reflecting the teaching and practice of the Primitive Church.—Yours faithfully, Earsham Hall School, Nr. Bungay, Suffolk SCOTTISH ROYAL COMMISSION