21 JUNE 1935, Page 17

CHURCH AND DIVORCE

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In reference to your leading article I suggest that the Joint Committee take a wholly unjustifiable line on the question of admission to the sacraments. On January 7th, 1909, the Archbishop of Canterbury admonished the Vicar of Charing that he was " not justified in repelling from Holy Communion a lady who had divorced her first husband and who had subsequently married a second husband in church."

Even if the Church were not in this matter subject to the civil law of the land, one would imagine that there need be no ecclesiastical quarrel with a decis:on of the Archbishop of Canterbury.—Your obedient servant,