THE NEXT LAMBETH CONFERENCE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Surely it is not the Bishops, but " C. H. B.," who has blundered. The Roman Augustine was the first to introduce Christianity, not into Britain, but to the English, when the British Christians were unable or unwilling to do it. To ignore the great debt thus due from us to Rome, because the great part taken later by British missionaries in Christianising the Northern English was for so long obscured, and has now been put in its right place by the labours of Lightfoot and others, would only be to run into a similar error on the other side. The Roman claims cannot be resisted by ignoring plain and important facts, but by throwing all the light we can on all the facts, and that, we may hope, next year's celebration will help to do.—I am, Sir, &e., H. L.
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