" QUANTUM VALEAT ? "
[TO THE EDITOR OB THE SPECTATOR:1
Sin,—May I suggest that much of the force of your argument anent Mr. Brooke Lambert's resignation is lost upon people who discriminate between the population of a parish and the actual constituency of a parish church ? " Conservatives " of the class to which you confess your adherence lose sight of the fact (or do not bring it to the fore) that now-a-days Nonconformists are no inconsiderable part of every parish population, and that a large proportion of these do not consider any special ceremonial observ- ances necessary to full spiritual satisfaction. I don't know the division of parties in Tamworth, but judging from experience in other parishes of the attendance at the Established Church, and making allowance for the provision for spiritual needs by Evan- gelical Dissenters, and for Rationalists (as I will call them), it is possible that an income of £135 a year, and apopulation of 8,000, are in no out-of-the-way proportion to services needed, and value
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