Sir : I have been toying with the notion of
contributing an article to your journal in order to have the pleasure of seeing a banner head- line : 'GOD ON KENNETH ALLSOP AND QUINTIN HOGG.' As, however, I know so much more about these two gentlemen than they can pos- sibly know about me, I have decided not to take an unfair advantage of them. Perhaps you will allow me instead to make one or two comments in your correspondence columns.
I have to confess that I found Mr Allsop's contribution quite incomprehensible (21 June). The only interesting fact that emerges from this is that, as all reputable theologians will agree, if I do not know what he was talking about, he cannot possibly know himself. I rather gathered that Mr Hogg was on my side. (How embarrassing one's allies can be!)
My chief reaction to these articles was one of intense curiosity as to what prompted you, sir, to choose these particular antagonists. I do spggest, with the greatest good humour, that, if I should in the future be considered a worthy subject for discussion, I may be attacked by one MI', is not psychologically juvenile and
defended by someone other than a master of rather petulant verbiage.
I do not, of course, normally write to the papers. Perhaps, therefore, I may take this opportunity of expressing my cautious general approval of the policy of the SPECTATOR. God c/o the Rev D. C. Barker, Master, Hugh Sexey's Hospital, Bruton, Somerset
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