THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND THE CHURCH. [TO THE EDITOR OF
THE "Spat:mews:] your article upon the meeting in Exeter Hall, you lament that " not a single minister of either the National or Noncon- formist Churches was there to take up the cause" of the Agricul- tural labourer. So far as this implies that there were no clergymen on the platform, it is a mistake. The promoters of the meeting being desirous no doubt of including representatives of many classes in their list of speakers, had invited Canon Girdlestone to -speak ; and if he had been present, he would have been the beat possible representative of the clergy. It is much to be regretted that he was prevented from attending the meeting. But there were several London incumbents on the platform to my know- ledge, and there may have been other clergymen there whom I did not know. I wish, with you, that the Church had spoken out more heartily in the matter ; but there are not a few clergymen, in London and the country, quite ready to express their sympathy with the Agricultural Labourers in their present efforts.—I am,
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