15 OCTOBER 1910, Page 18

PRAYER-BOOK REVISION.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1

SIR,—In last week's Spectator your reviewer performs a real public service in calling especial attention to Canon Beeching's pamphlets. They cannot be too widely known in the interests alike of our National Church and of the common religious life of our country. Burke said : "A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Equally so, surely, a Church. We now sadly need the per- tinent warning of sixteenth-century Erasmus, namely : "By identifying the new learning with heresy you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance."—I am, Sir, Ste., Giggleswick-in-Craven. THEODORE P. BROCICLEHORST.