THE 1928 PRAYER BOOK Sm,—Unless the servants who perform the
necessary labours inform their superiors whence comes what they see before them, their immediate knowledge is apt to be scant. Bishop Neill is evidently under a wrong impression about the obedience of the clergy to authorised varia- tions from the 1662 Prayer Book. On good authority, one of the servants assures his Lordship that ninety-two other priests in 1942 used the entire canon of 1928, including two bishops, three cathedrals, and were representative of nineteen dioceses. India, I believe, use it, and Gibraltar. Thus the statement that not more than a dozen churches in England use the Book is shown to have no foundation, and the obedience of clergy to their vows or promises is shown also to be substantial. It is most necessary to the conversion of England that there should be truth tit the base of things ; and obedience to the decisions of Convocation and the Church Assembly plus the bishops is no bad way of ensuring that desirable result.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
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