[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,--Mr. F. D.
Ellis makes a strong case; he can make a stronger. It is not only from military service that the clergy have been barred; the scheme for National Service, into which they threw themselves with enthusiasm, seems to have been completely wet- blanketed. Every class will be judged 'by what it has done in the war. The clergy, through no fault of their own, have, as an erganized body, done nothing to which historians can point. In reality, they have done an immense work behind the scenes; but the man in the street or the man in the trench knows nothing of that, and he will write us down as useless. Can we not even, in the present dearth of trained nurses, go as trained hospital orderlies? Or must we just confess with shame nos numcrus sumus at fruges consunicre natU—I am, Sir, &c.,
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