CENSUS OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECTATOR.") SIR,--Will you allow me less than a dozen lines, to contest your dictum that " if a man is willing to be put down Church,' he will vote Church ?' " Assuming that by voting " Church " you mean voting for the continued establishment of the Church, I reply (1), that there are now many bond fide Churchmen who are as willing as Nonconformists that the Church should be disestablished ; and (2), that of the multitude who would put themselves down as " Church," though never attending Church, a large portion would, as electors, vote for Disestablishment. The very fact that even the Spectator would put such a con- struction on the results of a census of " religious profession " conclusively shows how delusive it would be.—I am, Sir, &c.,
J. C. W.
[Nevertheless, it would probably be as we say in a very great proportion of cases.—En. Spectator.]
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