4 SEPTEMBER 1964, Page 17

SIR,—Neither the Bishop of Southwark nor Mr. Jones has helped

me very much. Of course I respect the Anglican point of view, and my original letter did not seek• to compare the value of traditions—only their difference. 1 still wish to know how it can be maintained that no break occurred when the previous and universally held beliefs and practices (the structure of the Church as a visible saving society and the central expression of that Church in Worship --the Mass) were repudiated. To say, as Mr. Jones suggests, that the Church of the Reformation is the same as the Church of St. Augustine, surely requires sonic explanation for the fact that the first person to be condemned under the penal laws would have been the Mass-saying Papal missionary Augustine himself.

It may be that I have missed some obvious point; if so, will someone please explain?