27 JANUARY 1906, Page 32

ANGLICAN INTOLERANCE.

[TO PEE EDTIOR OP TEE "8Prorwroe.."1 SIR,—Will you allow me, as a Church of England clergyman, to endorse the general contention of the Rev. Bernard Snell (Spectator, January 13th) ? Long experience and observation have convinced me beyond a doubt that although your editorial note expresses, thank God! a real truth, yet it is a fact that the Church of England is the obstacle to an amicable under- standing; and more than this, the blind and fatuous folly which makes it criminal on the part of a clergyman to enter a Nonconformist place of worship for the purpose of contri- buting by earnest, sober exposition of truth to reconciliation, and the fulfilment of Christ's last prayer for unity, is one of the greatest, if not the greatest obstruction to the extension of His kingdom, and, in my humble judgment, will prove to be the most damning witness against us as a Church.—I am, 28 Market Street. Curate of St. Thomas, Stourbridge.