ANGLICAN -INTOLERANCE.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE ".SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your views of religious liberty are well illustrated by the young cuckoo, which by its breadth is enabled to eject all the other fiedgings from the nest. We High Church clergy are by no means a majority ; but if, by Parliament "or other- wise," liberty be secured for persons to enforce upon clergymen to communicate them when not " ready and desirous to be confirmed," we High Churchmen, with other aids, are quite certain to blow up the Establishment ship.—I am, Sir, &e., Bicton Vicarage, Shrewsbury. F. S. EDWARDS, Vicar of Bicton.
[We are not afraid. The Non-Jurors, from their point of view with a better cause, failed entirely to blow up the Establishment, and for the very good reason that they could not get the laity to follow them. They found in fact by practical experiment that the Church is not the clergy. The extreme High Churchmen who threaten disruption if the national character of the Church is recognized by making it clear that Christian Nonconformists may take part in its communion, would if they made the attempt find no following among the English laity, who have a true understanding of and a true devotion to the National Church- as by law established.—ED. Spectator.]
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