SIR,—Your note in reply to my letter with regard to
the question of the teaching of the Church of England on the matter of contraceptives at least makes clear the point I had in mind, i.e., that there has been no authoritative teaching by the English Church on this subject, and that you were merely expressing the opinion of the Bishops at Lambeth and the assumed opinion and practice of possibly a large number of Church people. But an opinion is not necessarily authoritative teaching, and the practice of even a majority may not be "completely right and Christian." I must, therefore, maintain my position that it is at least misleading to create the impression by implicatiorr that the Church of England authoritatively approves the use of contraceptive methods.— Yours faithfully, The Presbytery, York Crescent, Aldershot, W. A. H. SIMMONS.
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