Two items in adjacent. columns of The Times on Monday
give some food for thought. One was headed " Creeds as Barriers to Christianity," the other ",Six Candlesticks on Altar Allowed "—allowed by a Consistory Court, after con- siderable arguments both ways. I realise that the difference between two candlesticks and six matters a lot to some persons, • but thinking of the earnest and sincere young people eager to know what true Christianity is, I cannot help wondering whether " Barriers to Christianity " would not have suited the second article as well as the first. As to the Creeds which Canon L. J. Collins, of St. Paul's, thinks may become barriers, that is much too large a question to enter on here. I will only say that if Canon Collins means, as I think he does, that the Creeds should be guides and not tests I agree with him unreservedly. The only creed the early Church knew was " Jesus Lord."
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