5 OCTOBER 1951, Page 5

Not long ago I said something about the varying fortunes

of the different religious weeklies, mentioning the Church of Eng- land Newspaper as having recently swallowed The Record. Someone seems to have inferred (perhaps owing to the effect of that operation on the digestion) that I was implying that the former journal's health was not good. Far from it. I believe the Church of England Newspaper is extremely prosperous. * *