SIR, —May I be allowed to say a word with reference
to your article under the above heading in your issue of January 28th P In that article this sentence occurs : " all the Protestant sects, except the Society of Friends, teach the doctrine of the two Sacraments," and I should like to point out that this is a case in which a word is misleading. It is true that the Protestant sects do accept the two greater Sacraments, but in a sense so essentially different from that in which the Church of England understands them that the same word does not mean the same thing in the two cases. The Protestant sects no doubt vary a good deal on some points in their teaching with regard to the Sacraments, but I believe they all agree in not believing them to be the means of conveying the grace they represent, while the Church of England teaches clearly the Catholic doctrine that the Sacraments are not only signs but channels of grace, or in the words of the Catechism, " a means whereby we receive the same." Surely Dr. Moberly rightly included Sacraments among the list of subjects that cannot be taught to Church of England and Nonconformist children in a common class
—I am, Sir, &c., A. E. T.
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