PRAYER-BOOK REFORM.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, "Old Soldier," declares that sacerdotalism is driving young men into scepticism, ath young ladies into superstition. My experience, on the- contrary, is that there is far more religion, and religion of a manly type too, among young men than there was forty years ago, when the pious young man was—and to a certain extent, perhaps, deservedly—looked on as, I can use no other word, a duffer, and I unhesitatingly attribute this change to the teaching of the clergy of the High Church school, who have—to their great honour—taught that they must, above all, be manly who would approach to "the Perfect Man, the Measure of the Stature of the fulness of Christ."—I am, Sir,.
RICHA.RD F. JUTE.
Longley Old Hall, Huddersfield, August 1st.
P.S.—With regard to your correspondent's assertion that English maidens are being led by the High Church clergy "into a state of superstition," let me say that if to attend, daily prayer in God's house, and to communicate frequently,. be superstition, would there were more of it.
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