[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I cannot help wondering
whether, if Mr. Christie's young friend had gone on Sunday morning to an Anglo- Catholic church he would have found the service "duller than ever," though perhaps it might not have "pleased the family" so much.
For fifteen hundred years all Christians in East and West worshipped on Sunday morning at Liturgy or Mass. The English experiment of the last three hundred years in sub- stituting Matins, in spite of Cranmer's genius, has not met the needs of ordinary people, though our Order of Morning Prayer has been a priceless possession in Cathedrals and College Chapels. But there had already been offered in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper "a continual remem- brance of the sacrifice of the Death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby."—Yours, &c.,
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