Sir: The article by Ludovic Kennedy (9 May) makes one
thing perfectly plain to me. He has not the slightest idea that religion cannot be communicated without reciprocation on his side. The two passages which he quotes from St Matthew's Gospel and complains he has never heard read as they should be, contain nothing that is not perfectly plain. What he is saying is that he has never before put his atten- tion to reading or hearing them, and is blaming other people for his own defects I have no doubt that he finds the C of E services boring for the same reason. I doubt whether he has ever spent even half an hour considering their form and content. You get out of a thing as much as you genuinely put into it. The business of the Church is not to spoon-feed with pap those who are too lazy to bite for themselves. I am sure that. Mr Ken- , 'nedy has been educated to use his mind, and hope that he will do so in future, however badly the Bible may be read, or however dully the service is conducted.
B. E. Adams
26 St Paul's Place, Islington, London Ni
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