"TASKS AND VISIONS."
(To THE Emma OP THE "SPECTATOR.")
Fie,—There is one passage in your review of Tasks and Visions in last week's issue which explains why the Church has lost much of its former influence. It is in the sentence beginning, " However, that is a matter which will right itself." It will, if your suggestion is carried out, and "the Church succeeds in convincing young men of intelligence that they can accept all the formularies of the Church without doing despite to their consciences." Is it not horrible for men who are about to devote themselves specially to the service of Gcd to do despite to (heir consciences as Oho first step? And that is what /Ins been and is being done. It is calling in the help of the Devil in order to serve God more perfectly. The only wonder is that the ruin of the Church has not been com- plete. If Mr. Francis Underhill is allowed to carry out his reform the ruin will be completed and England will in another generation have a population on the intellectual and moral level of Con- anught or the Spanish-American Republics.—I am, Sir, Inc.,
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