Established church
From the Rev. Victor Hellabv Sir: Your editorial of April 6 will have pleased many, besides myself, who are not Establishment bashers, and on the contrary would champion all that your editorial states so well.
The well tried method of appointment of bishops and archbishops which has stood the test of time very well is better than the uncertain results of any new system, and the certain canvassing that would take place which under the present system would be almost certain to preclude the canvasser.
Your editorial appeared under the heading, 'Established, ecumenical, evangelical,' and I think that there would be few who would not subscribe to the view the late Bishop Bell of Chichester was not only one of the greatest bishops of this century, but also a great lover of the Established Church; a great leader of the ecumenical movement, and a great evangelist in the true sense of the word. I remember how once he reminded some of his radical younger clergy, who questioned the present method of appointment of bishops on political and ecclesiastical grounds, that he had been appointed by Ramsay MacDonald, the non-Anglican Prime Minister of the first Labour Government.
Victor Hellaby Brightling Rectory, Robertsbridge, Sussex
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