CHRISTIANITY AND CHURCH
SIR,—The dogmatic tendencies of the undogmatic are a constant source of surprise! Canon England is, of course, perfectly right in leaving a society in whose tenets he no longer believes. The Nazi who abandons Fascism, the Churchman who leaves the " C. of E.," the Socialist who, having lost faith in nationalisation, resigns from the Labour Party— all these have something in common; and one cannot withhold sympathy from those who seek for proselytes to their new beliefs, however antago- nistic they may be to one's own views. But the calm assumption of your correspondents that the Christian religion needs to be brought by them and their co-religionists into " vital relationship with modern know- ledge and aspirations," and that such change is self-evident, begs the whole question from the start. It is on the face of it no more likely to be true than that the Faith, tested by 2,000 years, may be valid for every generation. Why cannot the " detached Christian " be content with the effort to secure new recruits from the non-religious who, according to his theory, are yearning unconsciously for this enlightenment? The Christ of the Modernist Gospel is, to thousands of ordinary Christian people, not only profoundly unattractive; He is acually unintelligible.—I am yours faithfully,
Madeley Manor, Madeley, Crewe.
CYNTHIA COLVILLE.
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