LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE CHURCH HOUSE : A PROPOSAL TO WIDEN THE BASIS OF ITS CORPORATION.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Will the Spectator help us to break down the present exclusive terms of membership of the Corporation of the Church House P To maintain a guinea subscription as a qualifi- cation for membership of an institution so closely connected with the Church as to be rightly called " the Church House," is to say to hundreds of thousands of earnest and enthusiastic Chnrchpeople, that their co-operation is not desired and their help not asked for ; and the financial result is a list of something
short of six hundred guinea subscribers. Let the Corporation be thrown open to all the members of the Church by the im- position of a minimum subscription within the reach of all, and the vast multitude that will gather round the Church House will not only build it with their accumulated offerings, but will also be a wonderfully attractive power in the direction of unity of aim and sympathy, and a witness to politicians of the attachment of the people to the Church of England.—I am, Sir, &c., A MEMBER OF THE CORPORATION.
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