THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND DIVORCE SIR,—Canon Dobson writes with
insight and courage. What must worry us both in our common experience is the bias against conviction and sound learning in much of our Anglican leadership.
We both know a political agent who was ordained without training and soon rushed into gaiters because he was a financial and administrative wizard. Such men have an, honoured place in the Church. But they arc certainly not equipped for the spiritual leadership of those properly trained and qualified.
I would hate to see the Church of England dis- established. Nevertheless, this will be the end if we continue in the apparently official leadership of com- prehensive lack of conviction and sound learning. The best hope is the revival of pre-Tractarian High and Low Churchmen bound together in bonds of sympathy and respect in Evangelical truth.
This is what John Wesley attempted and failed to achieve. is it not worth another try?—Yours faithfully, VICTOR H. BEATON Ito/iglu:in Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds
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