SERMONS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me here to make One statement and to ask one question about our Sermons ?
As a clergyman having regularly to preach two sermons a week, I should have no objection at all to "voluntary attendance," i.e., to the withdrawal of those who only wished to join in the prayers. I think this would probably be found to work well for both parties.
But now for my question. Does it not seem only just, in such an order of things as this would be, to make the sermons voluntary as well as the attendance on them, i.e., that a man need not preach at all on any given Sunday unless he chose to do so? I could say more about plans that might be adopted to prevent this rule from being made a cloak for idleness, but fear to trespass on your space.
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