4 JULY 1891, Page 11

We publish a letter in another column in which an

appeal is made against confining the use of the Church House to Churchmen who subscribe a guinea towards the expense of keeping it up. That is no doubt much too large a sum for the poorer clergy to raise, and it is very important that if the Church House is to be the centre of unity for all Churchmen, the use of it should not be limited to the well-to-do. Perhaps a part of the coldness with which the erection of the Church

House as a monument of the Queen's Jubilee has been received, is due to the feeling that it was intended for the use of wealthy Churchmen rather than for Churchmen at large. In the present day, no religious institution can afford to adopt a plutocratic basis.