ENGLISH NONCONFORMITY.
[To THZ EDITOR or TRZ " SPICCIATOIL.'] SIR,—In the Spectator of May 15th Mr. J. E. Harlow assumed that " to a very large extent the Wesleyans are associated with the movement for the federation of the Free Chnrohea."- Allow me to say that, whatever individual Wesleyan' have done in that direction, the Wesleyan Conference, so far, has not given any official sanction to the movement. Only a few weeks ago, in reply to questions, the President of the Con- ference, Rev. Dr. Randles, informed the writer that so long as the Conference had not spoken on the subject, none of the subordinate Wealeyan Courts had any right to elect repre- sentatives to the Free Church Councils. This does not pre- clude individual Wesleyan. joining the Councils, and as a matter of fact the President himself is in sympathy with the movement. But many of our most prominent ministers and laymen keep aloof because any " political " action the Councils have taken has been, as a rale, on the side of one of the great political parties. They object to be invariably committed to one side in politics. The Wesleyan support of the movement is, I think, not so extensive as outsiders might
gather from some inside declarations concerning am,
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