2 JULY 1937, Page 24

CHRISTIANITY AND THE CHURCH

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The services of the Church are rather like a soup-kitchen, where sustenance is handed to us sometimes in pleasing vessels by orderly, well-spoken ministrants, sometimes in common or chipped crockery by those whose behaviour or appearance is unpleasing. Some of us can put up with that as long as we get what we want. All the same, and in spite of the fact that, not once or twice, they have firmly seized the wrong end of the stick with which to beat the dog, there seems to be a great deal in the letter of Mr. P. A. Carter and Mr. P. H. Breach which might profitably be studied by those who are responsible for conducting the services of the Church.—Yours faithfully, Diss Rectory, Norfolk.

ALICE WILSON.