SIR,—Canon Norman Clarke draws attention to the valuable and widely
discussed report entitled " Towards the Conversion of England." When this report was debated in the Church Assembly at its November Session, I drew the Assembly's attention to the urgent need for ministering to those who find it difficult to accept the facts upon which our Christian faith rests. But, although several theologians of distinction, and two of the bishops, took part in the debate, my plea met with little response. The letters you have printed from " Student " and Mr. C. Scott, voice the feelings of thousands of our younger intellectuals, who fail to see the relation between "a system of morals and a two-thousand-year-old theology." How is the obvious need to be met? That is really the Church's most immediate problem. The "Conversion of England" report, excellent as it is, almost ignores the intellectual difficulties of those who would wish to accept the Christian faith, but cannot in honesty do so ; it assumes, in fact, a docility of mind which does not exist. It is high time the Church woke up to the facts of the situation.—Yours
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