11 APRIL 1931, Page 18

THE RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF CHILDREN

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sia,—In reference to Mr. G. D. Rosenthal's letter about my recent article on the " Religious Training of Children," may I remind Mr. Rosenthal that children do occasionally go to church with their parents, and that a great number of priests are perhaps less careful than himself in the selection of hymns. I have, in point of fact, quoted two hymns that I know by heart simply through having heard them so often at Morning and Evening Prayer in my childhood.

May I also point out that my query as to the desirability of doctrinal teaching referred not to " children " in the general sense, as Mr. Rosenthal has implied, but to children under ten years of age. This, I beg to submit, is rather a