PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION BILL.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1
Sin,—.While the principle of this measure is still being hotly discussed, it is perhaps hopeless to expect attention to a detail of it, but I should like to ask why Lord R. Churchill's proposal that one or more of the "three parishioners" might be women was instantly extinguished in "laughter." Since women are allowed to present to livings, the " proper-sphere " argument can scarcely be applicable here. And when we reflect that probably eighty per cent, of an average congregation is composed of women, and of men who go because women want them to, to ignore women utterly is surely something like ingratitude. When the promised ominous extension of the new procedure into the regions of morals and doctrine takes place next year, the case
will of course be harder stilL—I am, Sir, &c., F. H. A. H.
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