6 JANUARY 1917, Page 24

THE " DARBISTES."

(To THE EDITOR or rue " SPECTATOR."] Elni,—Your correspondent " II. B." (December 23rd) asks whether, in a certain connexion, the word " Dorbyste " should not be corrected to " Darbyite "; that is, a strict Plymouth Brother, a follower of the early and able leader of the " advanced " Brethren, Mr. J. N. Darby. It should rather be " Darbiste," the common designation of the " Brethren " in French Switzerland, as I found some years ago when I held a summer chaplaincy in the Jura.—I am, Sir, &c., II. Dumas. Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland.